The Blood Sister viewing — "Bridget Boone, of the Indianapolis archdiocese…"
Bridget Boone, of the Indianapolis archdiocese, begins to declaim briefly on Blood Sister: One Tough Nun’s ironic anti-Catholic subthesis—that the deformed addicted girl’s ‘salvation’ here seemed simply the exchange of one will-obliterating ‘habit’ for another, substituting one sort of outlandish head-decoration for another […] What’s intriguing but unknown to everyone in V.R. 6 is the way Boone’s take on Himself’s take on the substitution-of-one-crutch-for-another interpretation of substituting Catholic devotion for chemical dependence is very close to the way many not-yet-desperate-enough newcomers to Boston AA see Boston AA as just an exchange of slavish dependence on the bottle/pipe for slavish dependence on meetings and banal shibboleths and robotic piety
Context
Live audience criticism mid-screening, and Boone's clever substitution-thesis lands square on the film's encrypted subject — 132 told us Blood Sister germinated from JOI's own aborted Boston AA stint, which nobody in V.R. 6 knows. Then the narrator grades the thesis from outside: it's the exact rationalization that sends newcomers back Out There until "their faces hanging off their skulls." Film criticism scored as a matter of life and death.