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Happy to be a witch
Colton 2022-03-24 09:01:34
Spiritual awareness is scary, so in fact, from the perspective of genre films, will it be considered to fool the audience into a horror film, but the sound effects are still very touching. From a religious point of view, I don’t understand it at all. I just think this kind of primitive fear of unknown nature and uncontrollable factors is very scary. Because of fear, I rely on faith and spirituality, but this kind of faith has become a primitive fear of human beings. The bondage of instinct, in turn, has become a source of threat and terror. This kind of dead end seems to outsiders to be death within death. This is why I always feel that the witches and devils, the source of terror in the film, are not very scary, but are a kind of relief and the spokesperson of "you deserve it". What's wrong with facing desires is better than those who talk about their beliefs all day long. Be a hypocrite, be happy to be a witch.
Extended Reading
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[first lines]
William: [before the court] What went we out into this wilderness to find? Leaving our country, kindred, our fathers' houses? We have travailed a vast ocean. For what? For what?
Governor: We must ask thee to be silent!
William: Was it not for the pure and faithful dispensation of the Gospels, and the Kingdom of God?
Old Slater: No more! We are *your* judges, and not you ours!
William: I cannot be judged by false Christians, for I have done nothing, save preach Christ's true Gospel.
Governor: Must you continue to dishonor the laws of the commonwealth and the church with your prideful conceit?
William: If my conscience sees it fit.
Governor: Then shall you be banished out of this plantation's liberties!
William: I would be glad of it.
Governor: Then take your leave, and trouble us no further.
William: How sadly hath The Lord testified against you.
William: [turning to leave] Katherine...
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Thomasin: [walking gradually toward her sister] I be the witch of the wood.
Mercy: Liar! Liar!
Thomasin: I am.
Caleb: List' not to her, Mercy.
Thomasin: I am that very witch. When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with The Devil. That's how I signed his book.
Mercy: No!
Thomasin: He bade me bring him an unbaptized babe, so I stole Sam, and I gave him to my master. And I'll make any man or thing else vanish I like.