Stapledon's persona reflects about the moment of ultimate confrontation with Star Maker: «For I have been confronted not by a welcoming and kindly love, but by a very different spirit. (religion-online.org)
Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker (who would collaborate again on The Third Man) create images of stunning depth for this fierce, spiritual depiction of a man's ultimate confrontation with himself. (criterion.com)
But this is but the premonition of the ultimate confrontation with God, for He it is with whom all men have ultimately to reckon. (religion-online.org)