Beyond the Black Rainbow is a deep flickering trance of Jungian, twinning/reflection (pyramids turning into crystals, etc), dependence, mind control, murder, maiden, mother, crone, psychopathy, and homage to cinema & electronic sound ambiance engineering long passed, but not forgotten (if anything, it's absorbed/embedded into our psyche. C'mon, you know you watched channel 11 WPIX!). Anyhow, the black rainbow, at least for me, is the highway Elena crosses, which divide the row of houses filled with synthetic depravity and psychosis. & on the other side is a field. Nature. Barry drives on this highway, his journey long ago finished. Now he's just on maniacal auto-pilot. Sure they have award winning gardens, but that's all contained. Lab grown. Self enhancements\toupees and eye contacts are called appliances. Makes sense because you're applying it unto yourself. Kinda how generations have applied trillion dollars worth of self help "how to" books, pills, ego boosters whether by hormones (think a puffy puff daddy applying a deodorant made of testosterone, compliments of Biggie Smalls), accessories, or scientiological institutions, whatever..jpg)
But nothing can truly hide the vampire. Poor Barry. A married Igor. And doesn't Barry look like the evil child of Robert Altman & Tool's Maynard? The one eye monster Barry peels off his layers too, in exchange for more cocooning into Panamanian leather. Applications uninstalled. No choice but to go hunting.Mercurio Arboria lies decrepit and just murdered, watching an original wikipedia on Haleakala. And on the mini screen a row of houses opposite side a vast coast. His death signaling and propelling his captive daughter's freedom. Not a sacrifice, but more like sweeping up old remnants of knowledge past. Via his eyes, Elena who is the true heir of Arboria, telepathically watches a nature show, hears a farewell, and all the while feeling Mercurio's death. A superior woman's multitasking/becoming one with her dying father never looked so good.
Elena, Rosemary, Anna & Margo. Typically the Maiden, Mother & Crone, but because humans decompose and get sick, Cosmatos added a modern day caregiver. Just for good measure. Margo the fake and cold nurse/servant. Elena the beautiful captive, but the person who truly evolved to possess full control & power (everything revolves around her, doesn't it?). Anna is a mom memory. Always in the background (or foreground). Rosemary the perpetual pothead crone is the anima Barry has vast amounts of contempt for. We've all been there. In all, Cosmatos inserted these female archetypes so subtly its practically genius.
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In conclusion, after you've ODed on BtBR you may counteract all the aftermath affects with this --->ANTEDOTE FOR BtBR<----- font="">
