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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].
First a young hairdresser in Stigmata collapses on a crowded dance floor as an invisible crown of thorns is pounded into her head.
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.
In Stigmata , for instance, an unquiet dead priest is desperate to notify the world of a suppressed "fifth gospel," which, when revealed, will expose the greed and false pretenses of the Roman Catholic church.
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."