Throughout the whole film, the director did not intend to accuse religious beliefs, but just narrated calmly from the perspective of an outsider. The death of Alina, on the surface, was indeed the conspiracy of everyone in the monastery headed by the priest. In the name of God, they subjectively concluded that Alina was possessed by a demon, and only God could save her.
After the unsatisfactory life, some people bowed down to the sanctuary of the gods, relying on their commitment. As devout believers, the nuns of the monastery were numb, completely lost their ability to think independently, and obeyed the priest's arrangements like walking dead. Vecchia is a young believer among them, and she still retains some kindness. After her friend Alina died, she finally came to her senses. She took off her black nun's robe and put on Alina's sweater, which was a question of God.
Alina is sensitive and suspicious, and has a resolute spirit of resistance. She is lonely and lacks love. Vicchia is almost the only emotional sustenance she can catch. Even so, God mercilessly digs this human concern away from her and develops her best friend into a cold-blooded believer.
In this respect, God is not the saver but the perpetrator. So Alina collapsed in the film. Others called her crazy and possessed by the devil Satan. She cursed people, blasphemed God, trespassed on the temple, burned houses, and smashed holy relics. This was a normal person's resistance. Instead, she was bound to a wooden board by a group of people who distorted God's hypocrisy and abnormality.
It is not God who should be questioned, but those who deceive others (priests, priestesses) with the hypocrisy of religious teachings. What is even more irritating is that they are doing all evil in the name of redemption. Many people get lost in it and act indifferently as accomplices.
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