"Be yourself when you're happy, go to hell when you're unhappy"

Icie 2022-04-21 09:01:17

The first time I met this movie, it was mentioned by Huang Zihua in his Dong Duxiao "Not Suitable for Children".
After reading some film reviews, some say feminism, some say criticism of Catholicism, and some say blablabla lack of faith... There are different opinions. Of course there are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers.
Regarding the title, it is a sentence in Huang Zihuadong's laughter. He said that if people can be themselves when they are happy, they can be like the little girl in "The Exorcist" when they are unhappy. When you're alone, you can turn your head 180 degrees, and you can walk backwards... How happy is it to live like this. As a result, it was very refreshing to observe the "perverted behavior" of the little girl with such an idea...

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The Exorcist quotes

  • Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director: It looks like a type of disorder that you rarely ever see any more, except in primitive cultures. We call it a somnambuliform possession. Quite frankly, we don't know much about it except that it starts with some conflict or guilt that eventually leads to the patient's delusion that his body's been invaded by an alien intelligence, a spirit if you will.

    Chris MacNeil: Look, I'm telling you again and you'd better believe it: I'm not about to put her in a goddamn asylum! And I don't care what you call it! I'm not putting her away!

    Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director: I'm sorry.

    Chris MacNeil: You're sorry! Jesus Christ, 88 doctors and all you can tell me with all of your bullshit is...

    Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director: There is one outside chance of a cure. I think of it as shock treatment. As I say, there is an outside chance...

    Chris MacNeil: Will you just name it, for God's sake? What is it?

    Male Doctor: Do you have any religious beliefs?

    Chris MacNeil: No.

    Female Doctor: What about your daughter?

    Chris MacNeil: No, why?

    Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director: Have you ever heard of exorcism? It's a stylized ritual in which rabbis or priests try to drive out the so-called invading spirit. It's pretty much discarded these days, except by the Catholics who keep it in the closet as a sort of embarrassment. It has worked, in fact, although not for the reason they think, of course. It was purely the force of suggestion. The victim's belief in possession helped cause it. And just in the same way, this belief in the power of exorcism can make it disappear.

  • Father Dyer: Listen, if you ever go up there again will you take me along?

    Astronaut: What for?

    Father Dyer: First missionary on Mars.