It’s a suspense movie, don’t treat it as a horror movie

Garfield 2021-12-27 08:01:18

Regarding this film review, the first statement is that there are a lot of spoilers.

Clues in the story
1. When the protagonist introduced the background, he explained the book about the devil. His father said that there are only 20 books in the world, and 150 exorcisms. According to the thinking habits of the old beauty, there are few fake things that are narrated by numbers. And later in the story, it was confirmed that the book was right (at least the name of the devil was correct). So the existence of this devil must be real.
2. Let me talk about the protagonist learning the doctrine from an early age. The appearance he showed in the story at the beginning is not as serious and restrained as a preacher. Preaching through a series of performance techniques itself has a divergent understanding of the doctrine. Christianity Communication does not rely on various magic tricks to gain believers, but teaches people to be good and self-salvation. However, the main line of this plot is to let the pseudo-preacher expose the fact that he does not believe in himself but the real devil. This is one of the highlights of the plot.
3. Small branch, first, the protagonist said that it is because the child does not believe in the true faith of God. In fact, he didn’t really see the devil from his childhood to the last exorcism (proving the authenticity of God). It contradicted the exorcism background uploaded by his ancestors, which led to a key point in his life. The turning point (children) has doubts about faith.
Second, when the protagonist was in the car, he said that this place is surrounded by various doctrines and is a breeding ground for demons. Here he still thinks subjectively that the meaning of demons is just the demons in his heart, and his incomprehension of modern science leads to biases in beliefs. , And asked directions on the way, "I think there is the gate to hell", "There is a cult", "The leader of the cult thinks that human souls should be fed to demons." Other speeches have revealed the background of this exorcism story... Cult, soul feeding to demons
Third, go back to the scene where the protagonist got the letter, "I feel like I was possessed by a demon", which is the first person, so the sender is the little girl who was possessed, and the girl after the first fake exorcism I found the protagonist’s hotel in the town. There is a dark line here. How did the little girl know the protagonist’s address twice in isolation? Why are you looking for the protagonist? I guess it’s because of the protagonist’s book about exorcism. After all, there are only 20 books in the world, which is the core of this exorcism story. There must be a god if there is a devil. God really cares for this little girl and let her guide her again and again. The tragedy is that the exorcist of this generation is a false Taoist, and this is what the story is about.

To say that the story script is pretty good, all kinds of clues are endless, and the atmosphere in the back is also very exciting, but there are still many things.
For example, the opening clip of the protagonist’s character and the reasons for shaping the character’s conditions are too long. This should be a serial narrative method, which makes people believe that the story is to tell the truth that God is false. After the devil, the audience was not given time to think about the clue of how the little girl found the hotel, did not give to the father who trusted him (but finally realized that this father was kind), did not really ask about the background of this place, such as the cult (on the road) When passers-by asked him to ask), the whole story is largely based on rational thinking to determine that the incident is not caused by the possession of the devil. Let the audience be deceived again and again. This is the failure of the film.

Well, many people are very critical of the little girl’s various distorted poses. In fact, I want to explain. The protagonist in the play explained to the little girl’s father that the demon wrote in the exorcism book that the demon is like a snake...

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Extended Reading
  • Alessia 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    dumb, predictable and not scary at all.

  • Andy 2022-04-21 09:02:48

    Anticlimactic! ! ! Kind of boring... revisiting the BD 720P 13/06/02 still feels boring.

The Last Exorcism quotes

  • Cotton Marcus: [reading newspaper clipping] "Local boy Cotton delivers his first exorcism". As a little boy I thought this was in every newspaper all over the world.

  • Cotton Marcus: I do not believe in actual demons, no. No. But when I was doing exorcisms, you know, you know I acted like I did. It's not like I saw any demons come out of anybody.

    Iris Reisen: So for the last something-odd years you've just been a fraud?

    Cotton Marcus: That's your word, not mine. I wouldn't say that. I would *say* that for the last couple of years what I've been doing is doing what I've always been doing, which is delivering a service for a person who needs it in a *way* that they need it. I'm not saying I'm a doctor but I am saying that I helped heal people, from what ailed them. And what ailed them sometimes was the thought in their brain that they were possessed by a devil. And if I helped make that thought go away, and they felt better... so be it. I got a wife, I got a family to feed. At least that's how I used to justify it.