In his 9.28 Anemone review, Variety‘s Owen Gleiberman reveals that Daniel Day Lewis‘s Ray, a morose, white-haired hermit and a victim of priestly molestation when young, recalls an act of gross revenge — i.e., shitting on the face of the priest who diddled him.
Gleiberman: “Ray describes an encounter with the priest in which he pretended to come on to him, then had the priest lay down, face up, on the floor. Earlier that day, Ray had imbibed a special regimen of food and Guinness that would leave his bowels in a very active state; by the time he saw the priest, they were rumbling with need. And that’s when he took down his trousers, crouched over the priest’s face, and…let loose.”
“Trust me, I’m describing this far more abstractly than Ray does, and Day-Lewis, his face rippled with a grin of malice, digs with hideous relish into the scatological description of what went down.”
In Hal Ashby‘s The Last Detail, Otis Young‘s “Mulhall”, after hearing a seemingly incredulous statement of fact, says to Clifton James, “You’re shittin’ me.”
James to Young (deadpan): “I wouldn’t shit you. You’re my favorite turd.”