It is one of the few historically recent pop-cultural attempts to visualize what spiritual healing and exorcism actually look and feel like. Even in ‘Valentine’s Day’, Valentine himself seems to want some sort of reconcilliation/confession with Marley, who I’m convinced was his first victim when he was in high school. Given the tone of the ending, I wonder if Valentine just sat there in Newton’s apartment after killing him; simply waiting to be caught. The lyrical changes in ‘Heroes’ also stand out. “Because we’re lovers” is replaced with “because we’re free now”. In the Danish / Israeli run, Valentine is present during ‘Heroes’, singing along with the “because we’re free now” line. It becomes possible that Valentine’s whole string of murders had something to do with a spiritual “blockage” dating back to the death of Marley.
On the other end of the spectrum? Marley and Newton are beyond ready for reconciliation. Once the trauma of Marley’s murder is exorcised (like Newton’s morbid attachment to Mary Lou was exorcised), neither Marley nor Newton could care less about what happened in the past. The only thing that matters is the future. “Because we’re free now.”
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