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Maybe the most remarkable character created for conventional media might be Carrie Matheson, Homeland.
She is suited to the amoral character of her CIA because she is manic bipolar, and amorality is a powerful aspect of her physiology. This is to say that when it comes to men, she is the opposite of a woman who might experience men negatively. hers is as intense an experience as could exist with somebody of love. The manic quality of her vision intensifies the experience to something greater than the pain of a man in hell would be experiencing.
She is in a sense a lot like Eve in her succumbing to the wisdom of the snake's logic, to the 'goodness' of desirability. In a world of CIA deceit, her face is fully open to how she is feeling. That is purely physiological. On a more personal level than any normally would experience, Carrie cannot help but be fully open, not just the opposite of a poker face, but her eyes reflecting to everybody what is in her hand.
Carrie exists in that moment after her succumbing to the fruit and the subsequent exit of Adam to hell as a result of his becoming the entrance of sin into the world. Adam was in sin first, and in that interval, Eve would therefore have been without sin until a least second. Succumbing to rational desires in Eve was not the gateway to sin.
Carrie likewise is amoral desire, and intense love too, fully spiritual in that way, and the men that she meets are the already fallen Adam, denizens of hell, broken, alone and desolate, without clear mind any longer and broken free will.
Carrie is not exactly pretty, not exactly Crazy Eyes either on Orange …, but for one man sent back into society from the hell of eight years of torture and sinister mind control, even the most beautiful and fully good wife possible- which the series makes amply clear is perfect to the intimate detail- is not going to be the redemption of a man who is lost to hell completely.
Carrie is both fully vulnerable, still naked to the core like both the snake and the first humans. Her heart is an open book to all; both fully vulnerable, but invulnerable too, always too much the 'one knocking in the night to feel knocked upon'.
Many men sometimes smirk that if they were women that they would take advantage of the greater potential availability of sex that women of reasonable fitness and attractiveness would have. Carrie Matheson can be lecherous like that too, but it is the full acceptance and love that men experience in their encounters. That is her gift. No evil is too great that Carrie will be unable to enter into the man's hell and create for him a vision of his own goodness and hope for the future that being so intensely love now opens him up to, through her.
In a world of CIA deceit, this is what is real. Her world is filled with men living in hell, and noticing the flicker of redemption in that connection.
The character Carrie Matheson is one of the best characters aired on Netflix that I can think of. She is not in the caste of a lithe Halley Berry and the genre of wispy female martial art superiority.
She is instead fully independent and free, and loving that freedom. That is a vision of femininity that is worth relating to.
She is suited to the amoral character of her CIA because she is manic bipolar, and amorality is a powerful aspect of her physiology. This is to say that when it comes to men, she is the opposite of a woman who might experience men negatively. hers is as intense an experience as could exist with somebody of love. The manic quality of her vision intensifies the experience to something greater than the pain of a man in hell would be experiencing.
She is in a sense a lot like Eve in her succumbing to the wisdom of the snake's logic, to the 'goodness' of desirability. In a world of CIA deceit, her face is fully open to how she is feeling. That is purely physiological. On a more personal level than any normally would experience, Carrie cannot help but be fully open, not just the opposite of a poker face, but her eyes reflecting to everybody what is in her hand.
Carrie exists in that moment after her succumbing to the fruit and the subsequent exit of Adam to hell as a result of his becoming the entrance of sin into the world. Adam was in sin first, and in that interval, Eve would therefore have been without sin until a least second. Succumbing to rational desires in Eve was not the gateway to sin.
Carrie likewise is amoral desire, and intense love too, fully spiritual in that way, and the men that she meets are the already fallen Adam, denizens of hell, broken, alone and desolate, without clear mind any longer and broken free will.
Carrie is not exactly pretty, not exactly Crazy Eyes either on Orange …, but for one man sent back into society from the hell of eight years of torture and sinister mind control, even the most beautiful and fully good wife possible- which the series makes amply clear is perfect to the intimate detail- is not going to be the redemption of a man who is lost to hell completely.
Carrie is both fully vulnerable, still naked to the core like both the snake and the first humans. Her heart is an open book to all; both fully vulnerable, but invulnerable too, always too much the 'one knocking in the night to feel knocked upon'.
Many men sometimes smirk that if they were women that they would take advantage of the greater potential availability of sex that women of reasonable fitness and attractiveness would have. Carrie Matheson can be lecherous like that too, but it is the full acceptance and love that men experience in their encounters. That is her gift. No evil is too great that Carrie will be unable to enter into the man's hell and create for him a vision of his own goodness and hope for the future that being so intensely love now opens him up to, through her.
In a world of CIA deceit, this is what is real. Her world is filled with men living in hell, and noticing the flicker of redemption in that connection.
The character Carrie Matheson is one of the best characters aired on Netflix that I can think of. She is not in the caste of a lithe Halley Berry and the genre of wispy female martial art superiority.
She is instead fully independent and free, and loving that freedom. That is a vision of femininity that is worth relating to.
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