These words introduce the movie. It always gives me a bad feeling. Specially for a supernatural movie.
It gives the impression that the story is true. Which is not. This movie is based on the 'Anneliese Michel' case, Deutschland, 1976.
I had some fun being thrilled by this movie during its first half; But afterward, I was seeing it as an ad for Catholicism. And I think it is.
I have been reading on another comment that both sides are equally represented. I can't agree with that. We see scenes where Emily Rose is possessed, speaking weird languages, suffering under contact with a cross; black cats attack the priest at the beginning of the exorcism; everybody wake up at 3:00AM with anguish;and so on. Is there a single scene that shows with humanity and compassion the side of the doctors?
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In the end, the whole argument of the movie is not valid. When, Emily Rose is proposed by Mary the choice between dying now or suffer before that, she chooses the suffering in order to prove the existence of the Devil (hence the existence of God). As long as she is possessed, she sends people toward the church.
Hey! Lucifer is meant to be a smart guy! He should have guessed that the more he acts that way, the less souls he would collect. Hence Emily Rose would not have been possessed in the first place.
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Good acting, by the way.
It gives the impression that the story is true. Which is not. This movie is based on the 'Anneliese Michel' case, Deutschland, 1976.
I had some fun being thrilled by this movie during its first half; But afterward, I was seeing it as an ad for Catholicism. And I think it is.
I have been reading on another comment that both sides are equally represented. I can't agree with that. We see scenes where Emily Rose is possessed, speaking weird languages, suffering under contact with a cross; black cats attack the priest at the beginning of the exorcism; everybody wake up at 3:00AM with anguish;and so on. Is there a single scene that shows with humanity and compassion the side of the doctors?
***********SPOILER AHEAD****************
In the end, the whole argument of the movie is not valid. When, Emily Rose is proposed by Mary the choice between dying now or suffer before that, she chooses the suffering in order to prove the existence of the Devil (hence the existence of God). As long as she is possessed, she sends people toward the church.
Hey! Lucifer is meant to be a smart guy! He should have guessed that the more he acts that way, the less souls he would collect. Hence Emily Rose would not have been possessed in the first place.
***********SPOILER ABOVE****************
Good acting, by the way.