![]() ![]() At other points, the movie explains that the crew (or the guy) set up multiple cameras beforehand, but here it seems like they stumbled into a lecture. During an interesting lecture at the “Exorcism School”, the camera seems to change position during conversations so we can see the faces of the people talking. It’s a “found footage” film, but it falls into the usual problems… and then some. More than the structure of the film, though, the actual movie-making technique seems noticeably weak. That makes it incredibly frustrating, because it broaches the topics and then jumps to the next horror movie convention, without engaging us. How was Isabella’s mother possessed? Is it genetic? Can the demon be cast out of her? What does it want? How much does the Church know about this? How does it “transfer”? Why are there a choir of demons in this one woman? Unfortunately, it answers next to none of them, and it seems to contort like any number of the victims in order to avoid addressing these points. I mean, basic logical plot-progression questions. I’m not talking about the interesting moral and philosophical questions, which we’ll come to. The movie raises a bunch of interesting questions. However, the movie seems to quickly lose interest in the long-term possession of Rossi’s mother, and instead takes a sharp left turn to become another type of demonic story, which it seems to begin and then… gives up on. ![]() From there, it sort of branches out into an interesting religious procedural, which is actually quite interesting of itself. ![]() The movie seems to be about Isabella Rossi’s quest to figure out exactly what happened to her mother during a botched 1989 exorcism that left three clergy dead and her mother committed to an institution in Rome. What is the movie about? Is it an inside look at the mechanics of exorcism? A meditation on the relationship between science and faith (mental health and spirituality? Is it a monster movie? Is it a possession film? However, it exists as the culmination of narrative woes that have been percolating for the movie’s hour-and-a-half runtime. I don’t want to spoil the film, but it is a very unsatisfying denouement. I’m almost certain that every conversation about the film broaches the topic of the ending. ![]()
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