Are we all just meat for the slaughter? Whose slaughter?
A lot is left to the observer's imagination in this methodical and morbid portrait of humanity. However this story is interpreted, the final question is: How can human beings think and behave this way? What are we? What made us this way?
I found this to be a well made budget film with very fine acting and simple, adequate directing. The music was good and fit the plot. The visuals were all well captured as well as the sound. What's left wanting, quite deliberately, is what exactly is going on in the plot of the story? There are enough 'clues' left around, nicely discussed in other reviews here, to leave the viewer wondering. Who's fooling who? Was the story told about this family fabricated? Seeing as so many clues back up the base story told by the narrator, is this person actually doing god's work? Is this story actually saying there are demons on Earth as well as demon slayers? This isn't another episode of the CW program 'Supernatural'. This is outright ambiguous and horrifying to consider.
From my own point of view, this is a story about how brutally insane we humans can be in our religious concepts of what is 'absolutely true'. We can justify almost anything, no matter how wrong. We elected a psychopath to the US presidency, with all the predictable outcomes, we can be so blind. 'Charismatic', 'evangelical' 'Christians' vehemently supported and defended this demonic person as 'sent by god'. So why not have fellow humans believe in demon mythology, go all rapturous with visions when they touch someone they perceive to be a 'demon'? We are so frail in our minds. The Meik shall inherit the Earth? We are all just meat in Meat, Texas and our sheriff is a prolific serial killer, our protector and defender? I'm left considering this to be a deeply cynical film about mankind's worst of enemies, its greatest frailty, our own deceptive truth conjuring minds. Noise hides our frail identities from our fellow humans.
A lot is left to the observer's imagination in this methodical and morbid portrait of humanity. However this story is interpreted, the final question is: How can human beings think and behave this way? What are we? What made us this way?
I found this to be a well made budget film with very fine acting and simple, adequate directing. The music was good and fit the plot. The visuals were all well captured as well as the sound. What's left wanting, quite deliberately, is what exactly is going on in the plot of the story? There are enough 'clues' left around, nicely discussed in other reviews here, to leave the viewer wondering. Who's fooling who? Was the story told about this family fabricated? Seeing as so many clues back up the base story told by the narrator, is this person actually doing god's work? Is this story actually saying there are demons on Earth as well as demon slayers? This isn't another episode of the CW program 'Supernatural'. This is outright ambiguous and horrifying to consider.
From my own point of view, this is a story about how brutally insane we humans can be in our religious concepts of what is 'absolutely true'. We can justify almost anything, no matter how wrong. We elected a psychopath to the US presidency, with all the predictable outcomes, we can be so blind. 'Charismatic', 'evangelical' 'Christians' vehemently supported and defended this demonic person as 'sent by god'. So why not have fellow humans believe in demon mythology, go all rapturous with visions when they touch someone they perceive to be a 'demon'? We are so frail in our minds. The Meik shall inherit the Earth? We are all just meat in Meat, Texas and our sheriff is a prolific serial killer, our protector and defender? I'm left considering this to be a deeply cynical film about mankind's worst of enemies, its greatest frailty, our own deceptive truth conjuring minds. Noise hides our frail identities from our fellow humans.
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