Movie Review: Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Google "Love Lies Bleeding" and you'll get (mostly) results relating to the the 2024 feature film -- still currently in theaters -- which I'm about to review here on this blog. But Love Lies Bleeding is also the title of a 1948 detective novel by Edmund Crispin and bearing no resemblance, plot-wise, to the current film. It's also the title of a 2005 stage play called Love Lies Bleeding , by none other than Don DeLillo. In 2011, a writer named Jess McConkey also used the title, for a novel. Love Lies Bleeding is also, apparently, the common name for Amaranthus Caudatus, a flowering plant native to Peru. And, last of the references but not least, is a lyric from the Elton John song "Funeral for a Friend," from the 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road . What do all these references have in common? Without reading each of the books and plays in question, it's pretty impossible to say. Perhaps nothing. But it at least explains why, when I first heard
