Nothingness

Recent posts that interpret the film as set in Purgatory should take into consideration the Christian connotations of that idea. To me, Songs From the Second Floor seems to reject that connotation by questioning the presence of God. Scene after scene show characters who are waiting for a saviour that never comes in a sparse Godot-like world. It seems to me that the "dead" characters, clearly coded by their white-face makeup exist in the same plane as the living. The end, with its crucifixes piled like garbage on an empty plane, underline a frightening thought - that death brings an existential nothingness. The map of ritual and tradition leads us to a spiritual dead end.