Really move people's hearts

Uriel 2022-01-25 08:01:47

The difference between this movie and other horror movies is that other horror movies are too divorced from reality. Although horrible, they make me feel far away; because they didn’t use too many special effects, the exorcist was too ordinary and too close to reality. So that I believe that the story is happening right before my eyes.

The conversation between the priest and the devil is not only a battle, but also a psychological struggle. And how many horror movies can allow the good and evil sides to have such a complicated exchange of ideas? Think of the expressions of Sadako in Japanese horror movies. Compared to the priest in the exorcist, it is so stiff and pale, and the demon like Sadako is so inferior compared to the demon in the exorcist. , How simple.

There are not many scary images in this movie. The opposition between medicine and religion, the opposition between men as priests and mortals, and the opposition before and after the little girl is possessed by the devil, leave us more to think about later.

My feeling after watching the movie was "I have already fought with the devil", nothing terrible. But when I recalled the movie one day after watching it, I became scared.

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The Exorcist quotes

  • Demon: Give us time... Let the girl die... I am no one... I am no one... Fear the priest... Fear the priest... Merrin... Merrin.

  • [2000 version]

    Lt. Kinderman: You go to films, Father Dyer? You like them?

    Father Dyer: Oh, sure.

    Lt. Kinderman: I get passes. In fact I've got a pass for the Crest tomorrow night. You'd like to go?

    Father Dyer: What's playing?

    Lt. Kinderman: "Wuthering Heights".

    Father Dyer: Who's in it?

    Lt. Kinderman: Heathcliff, Jackie Gleason, and in the role of Catherine Earnshaw, Lucille Ball. You're happy?

    Father Dyer: I've seen it.

    Lt. Kinderman: Another one.