He, John Constantine, never leaves his hand with smoke;
▲ Often have a cigarette in their mouth, and the same is true when they go to the enemy's nest
He, John Constantine, to the woman who teased him, pushed the boat along the water, and did not refuse to come;
▲ Ambiguity under the table
He, John Constantine, was born with a violent temper;
▲ Drunk was thrown out of the bar, a garbage can, and was caught in the bureau
Of course, he is still a strength pit teammate, no, reasonable use.
▲The people in the painting know it, and the people outside the painting also know it
But [Constantine: City of Demons] also makes the man's kindness clear.
People who can use black magic are not necessarily bad people.
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For the Dark Arts, most people know that it all began with Harry Potter.
One of the classes is defence against the dark arts, which is to teach these children to resist the dark magic.
And this course has been controversial since the beginning.
Hogwarts: A History of the School reads:
- Slytherin: "He can use black magic, you will say that he is a dark wizard, he can't use it, how can he teach a good student?" ”
Gryffindor: "Anyway, anyone who has used black magic can never be a professor at Hogwarts." ”
The impression of black magic means evil, whether it is the person who uses it or the magic it uses.
In 2009, the American writer Robert E. Lee M. Price's Book of Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena Series: Magic and Alchemy, or Magic and Alchemy.
The origins of black magic described in it are primitive, ritualistic cults of the soul.
A bit like primitive shamanism, to approach spiritual creatures.
Konstantin called the Nightmare Nurse to communicate with the devil
What a shaman, exorcism, may be understood as dealing with the devil.
During the Renaissance, many magical rituals considered evil were absorbed by the broad sense of "black magic".
As a result, most of the people summoned by black magic were demons, engaged in devil worship.
In 1669, the chapter of The Witch's Hammer reads:
The word is reserved for those accused of inciting demons and other evil spirits;
Those who curse or curse their neighbors, those who use magic to destroy crops;
And those who are able to leave their earthly bodies and travel spiritually. ”
▲ Cover of "Witch's Hammer"
In the 1968 film The Devil Strikes, Christopher Lee plays the Grand Mage who is proficient in black magic.
In the film, he tries to get help from the devil through sacrifice.
▲ In order to increase their mana
In [Constantine: City of Demons], Constantine's feud with the demon Negar also begins here.
Only hated that at that time, Constantine was too weak and good to do bad things.
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Constantine confirmed the use of black magic: one was to summon demons; the other was to cast curses.
Let's talk about what happened in Newcastle, when Constantine first meets Negar in the movie.
Bar owner Logue is superstitious about black magic.
▲ Use his daughter Astra as bait to let the black magic descend on the world
Constantine could not see it, and he planned to fight evil with evil and save Astra.
▲ It should be the pentagram that Christianity has been named a demon
This is different from what the comics say.
In the comics, Astra is tortured by her father and calls a monster to kill her father, leaving a pile of wreckage.
The result was the same, and Constantine summoned Negar, but his power was too weak to control the demon.
▲ Negar
Negar was the king of Hades in Sumerian mythology, and it was Konstantin who was so stunned that he could grasp it.
In an instant, the whole bar was stained red with blood, and Astra did not escape the hands of Negar, but still died.
Constantine was mired in self-blame and doubts about his magical abilities.
This is the beginning, the scene where he is in a mental hospital.
But no matter how to escape, after his friend Chas encountered trouble, he stepped forward.
In order to save chas's daughter Terry, the soul captured by the demon, he does not hesitate to make a deal with the devil Berrur.
Pick up the black magic that had frustrated him again.
Summons Miktranti Kutri, the Aztec god of the underworld, to clean up the stumbling blocks of Beirul's "hellish" business.
In the Aztec world, the skeleton was a symbol of abundance, health, and prosperity
The real black eats the black, and waits for the devil to be consumed.
▲ Reap the benefits of the fisherman
When it was discovered that Berul was nothing more than a body occupied by Negar, and that he was only being used by Negar.
As a last resort, Constantine made a big move, the Curse of Candyfo.
With the help of the Chas couple's love for their daughter Tri, they wash away the evil of Negar.
In the name of love, surrender to Nirvana
This way of defeating bosses is cheesy, but it makes sense.
But the bad is also bad in the curse, Chas's trajectory in the lives of his wife and daughter is erased, and they are passers-by from then on.
▲ Yes, Constantine put on the pot of using his teammates again
However, the third reversal is even more heartbreaking.
▲ Constantine, for the sake of exorcism, even the last friend is not wanted
"That powerful magic needs to be sacrificed", sacrificing not only family affection, but also friendship.
That's the price of black magic.
And the purpose of his use of black magic was not for his own ambitions and desires.
He wanted to be a good person, but he couldn't do it.
The same is true for Astra, for Chas.
It hurt him a little bit.