1. The attitude of the father. From the beginning to the end, the father's attitude towards ELI is ambiguous, which is in contrast to the mother's doting. For example, at the beginning of the film, when the gangster bullied ELI, I thought he was going to work hard, but in the end, he just shouted out. In addition, in this setting, is ELI biologically related to him? If not at all, then this green hat will not be easy.
2. There was a billboard on the roadside when the family left the motel. It says, Proverbs 19:9: A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will perish. Taken from the Bible, to the effect that perjury and liars are punished. So, to focus, this sentence can be understood as the central idea of the film. Another direct expression of a similar theme is the ending, from the mother's mouth: The Devil Always Lies.
There is also a phone number written in the lower right corner of the billboard: (335)-173-TRUTH. According to the following decoding method, 335=See, 173=ELI.
3. ELI played poker magic with his mother on the way to the hospital. The card drawn was a 6 of spades, and the pattern was a hexagram, which are all symbols of the devil.
4. There is a relatively obscure cross sign on the door of the hospital, which also appears on the nun's clothes in the group photo of the nuns behind.
5. When the family first arrived at the hospital, two nurses (actually nuns) looked curious and wary at ELI.
6. The little girl Haley said to ELI: I don't like your name. Because the name ELI means "my god" in the Bible, she naturally dislikes her as the daughter of the devil. It can also be seen here that ELI's parents knew ELI's identity at birth, and the name implies an expectation of suppressing evil.
7. ELI told Haley that her mother was very ill when she was pregnant, suggesting ELI's identity.
8. Haley's palm ignition is the first bold disclosure of the truth. Of course, it is very clever. First, it is too early, and the plot is not fully revealed; second, it is so direct and unsuspecting; .
9. Several lies in this film
(1) The parents deceived ELI and did not tell him his life experience or the truth of his condition.
(2) The nuns deceived ELI and concealed the truth about the condition and treatment.
(3) The father and the nun deceived the mother into thinking that every child had been cured before, when in fact they were all buried.
(4) The demon deceived the mother that ELI would not be like himself after birth.
【Some complaints】
1. You clergy, even if you have no mana, you have many years of fighting experience, how come you have no resistance in the end? This is just a half-blooded demon boy who has just awakened. What if there are several genuine demons with this kind of combat power? In addition to sprinkling holy water, you can only play physical attacks with a knife, is there no other way? Exorcism is unprofessional.
Besides, even if you can't deal with a living demon, can you still deal with it when you're dead? What's up with those ghosts? Even a three-legged cat Taoist knows how to draw talismans to exorcise ghosts. You senior nuns, let these demons and ghosts harass your patients every day. The only explanation is that the nuns didn't know about the haunting, including ELI's parents, who really interpreted his claim to seeing ghosts as hallucinations. This is a bit embarrassing. In a world view that clearly has demons, but I don't believe in and can't find ghosts, can't exorcism and exorcism be compatible.
2. It can be seen from the above details that this film is not a shoddy money-making work, but has some ideas and ambitions. But in essence, the investment is still not enough, and the editors and directors are bad. Rather than using the plot to create suspense, it is better to say that the sci-fi themes of "the horror experiment of a medical madman", the ghost themes of "spooky haunted mansion" and the exorcism themes of "Christian battle between good and evil" are completely different. The themes are spliced together, so as to achieve the purpose of deceiving the audience. And in order to ensure rationality, in the case of insufficient skills, all three themes have to be confirmed (gene therapy is real, ghosts are real, and demons also exist). The new idea is there, but it is far-fetched enough. , this original worldview needs a lot of details as support, which this film obviously does not have, so many people feel that the end reversal is too blunt for this reason.
3. The setting of "a group of nuns use gene therapy to turn the devil's son into a human" is actually quite touching, ... and it can derive a great world view. Science and technology are the primary productive forces
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