Until this exorcism.
Strictly speaking, I think that exorcism is not counted. Ghost movies or horror movies in the traditional sense are more similar to legal ethics movies. Of course, there are many terrible scenes in the play, but it is not a general horror movie that is scary and scary. It serves more of the plot and the main theme.
The story is based on a real case that happened in Germany in the last century. A German girl claimed to be possessed by a demon, so her family recruited a priest to perform a Roman exorcism ritual. However, the exorcism failed, and the girl was tortured and skinny from her original health and beauty. , Almost non-human-shaped. After watching the movie, I checked the records of the prototype on the Internet, and the comparison of the photos before and after was indeed very shocking. Compared with the skinny Jews in the concentration camps, the latter exudes a sense of despair, and The former makes me feel very scary.
Of course, this cannot be ruled out because of the filter effect brought by the bonus of this exorcism story. In short, as far as I am concerned, I can fully feel the gloom and death just by looking at the photos. After the
girl’s fragrance disappeared, the two priests who did exorcism for her were pushed to court by the prosecutor (they were one person in the movie), and they were accused of delaying the treatment of the girl and causing her to die. The charge is naturally manslaughter. The
point of controversy is whether this young girl was tortured to death until the end because of being possessed by the devil, or was she just an epilepsy patient who was entangled in hallucinations caused by illness and caused mental illness? The
bottom line lies in this world. Are there any so-called ghosts, so-called demons?
In fact, this is a debate between religion and science.
It is interesting to say that many scientists in the Middle Ages hundreds of years ago were regarded as heretics by the Vatican because of their opinions. Various capital punishments were imposed; hundreds of years later, many claims in the religious world (such as the existence of the devil and exorcism in the movie) were regarded as nonsense, and the parties would even be brought to court for trial.
Science and religion, as if one pair of twins, are looking for human unknown things and phenomena reasonable explanation, a pulse was born, but opposite to each other.
The film's exorcism wonderful place is here.
Like As I said before, the focus of the movie is not on how to scare the audience, but on the game between religion and science. The
same incident, from different perspectives, shows different truths. The death of a girl. It can be said that she was killed by a disease or swallowed by the six possessed demons in her mouth. The so-called truth depends on the standard of judgment.
Of course, it is like it is difficult for a person to put a bowl of water As usual, the movie itself is obviously leaning toward the Holy See. After all, there are indeed too many strange phenomena in the world that are difficult to explain with science. Whether it is priests, victimized girls, or even defending female lawyers, their hearts With this belief, it becomes true. From a scientific point of view, it seems absurd and stupid, but how can you say that it is all false when you are in it? At
the end of the trial, this is a difficult question. The film is resolved from the perspective of humanistic care. Because there is no argument, we can only try to believe in a possible belief. Religion is not always illusion, and science is not always correct. Even if there is a possibility of one in ten thousand You should take a face-up attitude.
For the priest, his subjective starting point is to save the girl, so from a legal point of view, he is guilty; from the point of view of whether he is motivated, he is innocent.
And the two in reality The prototype of the six-month sentence is similar. The priest in the movie was released in court with a detention period to offset his sentence, and he obtained a de facto victory. Awe is more about their understanding of his kindness.
In this battle between religion and science, the two are evenly matched. But I think that in the future, there will still be all kinds of doubts and disputes. Until people put everything together. In the distant future where all the puzzles are solved, this situation will continue to be repeated.
Finally, let me mention again the girl who died in the story. No matter what the truth behind her death is, she is undoubtedly a victim. Like thousands of people who have been tortured to death by diseases of unknown origin. Like people, it urges us to keep moving forward, constantly overcoming difficulties, and constantly exploring the unknown.
The history of mankind is opened up in suffering, just like the engraved on the girl’s epitaph:
"work out yoour own salvation with fear and trembling( Complete salvation in fear and tremor)"
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