The movie "The Exorcism of Emily Loris" uses a large number of courtroom dramas as a framework, with supernatural elements as embellishments, and the material is selected from a real story that shocked the world in Germany in the 1970s, trying to explore "theism" Link to "Atheism".
That's what makes this movie clapped. It has long been out of the boring mode of Hollywood ghost films. Although the focus of "religion" is not new, the content of the film has risen to a higher level from the emptiness of thrillers.
The film chose to start from Laura Linney, who is an "atheist" and a "lawyer". A large part of the audience of the film is just like Laura, who is "agnostic" and can achieve a resonance. How can such an atheist discuss this topic? Her profession can be justifiably articulated. A lawyer is not a judge, she must speak for her client, right or wrong. When Lola changed from this simple professional conduct to confrontation for the sake of light and truth, she could definitely achieve the effect of taxing the audience.
The clever thing about the movie is that he doesn't impose a certain point of view on the audience. As Laura repeatedly emphasizes, "these are just possibilities." The movie chooses two ways from the beginning of the bizarre encounter with Emily at the same time. Presentation: One is from the perspective of Emily and the priest, deformed dark clouds, scary faces, signs of God, etc.; at the same time, the film also presents a "reasonable explanation" of the opposite view, there is no deformed dark cloud in the sky, People's normal faces, the so-called god marks are just the result of their fists clenching the wire fence. Regarding the languages of various countries that Emily spoke when she was "in the evil", the movie also seems to imply the influence of the learning environment due to Emily's family. .
I have to say, this "old fritters" approach is really wonderful. The film acts like a judge, not taking sides and leaving the difficult questions to the audience. Dealing with a story involving religious beliefs in this way cleverly avoids some of the troubles that can arise later.
Regarding horror and thriller, the movie does not have a "devil" once, but uses a lot of bizarre and supernatural phenomena to make the audience guess what happened, and some sound effects and shots can really startle the audience.
I think people who have seen this movie will be curious about what kind of background story this is. It is said that the prototype of Emily does exist, and the recording also exists. With the personal experience of Emily, more and more people You know, the debate about demons and angels has never stopped.
But the end of the movie also hints at a truth: darkness has always coexisted with us. Laura smiled and fell asleep, as if telling us that to accept the world, we must also accept the darkness.
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