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Stigmata
Certainly since Erving Goffman's seminal work on stigma in the early 1960s, stigma (plural stigmata) has been recognized as “an attribute that is significantly discrediting,” and it is known as a potent and painful force in individual lives [15].
I can hardly blame Director Kevin Smith ( Clerks , Chasing Amy ) for complaining that no one's going after the current box-office leader Stigmata , which is violent, bloody, highly anti-Catholic, or for telling the New York Daily News , "Next time, I'll just make a stupid stoner flick, and leave it alone."
In Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (1767-69), the saint cranes his neck (as we do) to see the weird God hovering above him: a round sun with a human face and four pairs of wings that shoots golden laser beams down into Francis' palms.
In Stigmata, Patricia Arquette plays a frenetic party girl, who, of all the people in the world, is judged to be the best candidate for mouthing lost Aramaic scriptures as unseen nails are hammered into her appendages.