| Their mother
is absent for most of the film, but she is personified in Charlie's
pet dog, Loki.
This embodying of personalities or entities
in animals or small groups of secondary characters is something
which develops further in later work and becomes a stronger part
of the work's overall direction.
The Victorian setting was also perfectly
suited to the locations available to me in Dublin city centre.
This combining of the Native American myth
and the Victorian setting, as a kind of East / West transposition
( regarding native America as a relative East in this context ),
is the starting point of the Seventh Earth 'thread' and provides
the first points on the map.
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