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- A prison where there is no escape and men fight to the death. This is the premise of "In Hell". The prison itself is this cold, dark, violent and repulsive rat trap of a place. It feels almost too real. You feel the coldness, the destruction of mankind happening within it's walls through Kyle, the subhuman food and lodging, everything. It's there.
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Aug 8, 2003 · In Hell: Directed by Ringo Lam. With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lawrence Taylor, Lloyd Battista, Carlos Gómez. A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the wardens' entertainment.
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- Ringo Lam
- 2003-08-08
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The throng of souls entering the gates of hell extends as far as Dante can see; the scale of the desperation astonishes him. Once past the gates, Dante and Virgil enter Limbo, a region populated by noble but unbaptized souls. There, Dante finds himself in the company of great ancient poets—Homer, Ovid, Lucan, Horace, and Virgil—and refers to himsel...
At the entrance of the Second Circle, the pair encounter King Minos—who judges the incoming souls and assigns them to their appropriate place in hell—and meet the souls of the lustful, who are eternally buffeted by surging winds. The two representative souls are Paolo and Francesca, a pair of Florentine lovers who tell Dante of their ill-fated affa...
In the Third Circle, the souls of the gluttonous splash about in a bog, blinded by mud and chilled by icy rain, watched over by Cerberus. Virgil fills Cerberus’ mouths with heaps of mud, allowing him and Dante to slip past. Here, Dante speaks with Ciacco, a fellow Florentine who makes a political prophecy, which would not only come true but also be...
The Fourth Circlehouses the greedy, ruled by Plutus, the Roman god of earthly wealth. As Dante and Virgil approach, Plutus mutters the cryptic phrase: “Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe!” There, they find the greedy souls, who are fated to eternally roll great bags of gold uphill or in pointless circles.
The souls of the wrathful float in the stagnant River Styx. Virgil and Dante hire Phlegyas to ferry them across the Fifth Circle. As they do, they encounter an acquaintance of Dante's, who bitterly accosts him; the pair merely continues onward. On the other shore, they enter the walled city of Dis, which contains the subsequent circles of hell.
The souls of heretics burn within the earth, piled deep in the flaming graves of the Sixth Circle. These heretics are punished for their belief that the soul dies with the body.
Virgil and Dante slip past the Minotaur as they enter the Seventh Circle, which detains the violent in three subdivided rings. In the First Ring, the souls of those who were violent against their neighbors—such as Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun—wallow in the Phlegethon, a great river of burning blood. The Second Ringhouses the suicidal, tra...
The Eighth Circle houses the souls of the fraudulent and is divided into ten bolge—trenches—arrayed in a series of concentric circles decreasing in size. 1. In the First Bolgia,the panderers and seducers are whipped and beaten by demons. 2. The Second Bolgiacontains the flatterers, who aremired in pools of feces. 3. The Third Bolgiaimprisons the si...
Traitors are punished in the Ninth Circle—home to the frozen lake Cocytus—which is divided into four rounds. 1. The First Roundis Caïna, where traitors to their kindred are frozen up to their necks in ice. 2. The Second Roundis Antenora, where traitors to their country are submerged up to their chins. 3. The Third Roundis Ptolomea, where traitors t...
Inferno is an allegorical journey through Hell. In part, Inferno is a political allegory, and in part it is a religious allegory. It is also a story following the classic elements of a comedy—it starts in the depths of Hell but ends with the joys of Heaven.
The Inferno describes the journey of a fictionalised version of Dante himself through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.
May 23, 2020 · Eventually they caved and confirmed that: 1) no, not everyone was dead the whole time, 2) yes, that was a "heaven-esque" setting in the church where all the characters met, and 3) the purpose was...
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Audio. Features. A Visitor’s Guide to Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell. By Matt Staggs. Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy is considered an epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon. We offer this short guide to the nine circles of Hell, as described in Dante’s Inferno.
May 11, 2015 · Hell is a difficult reality, but it is something that the Bible teaches, and we can’t fully understand God and his world unless we grapple with it. These seven truths should frame our discussion of hell. 1. Hell is what hell is because God is who God is.
