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MOVIE | THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE
STARRING: LARRA LINNEY, TOM WILKINSON, CAMPBELL SCOTT, JENNIFER CARPENTER, COLM FEORE
PLAYING AT ALL CIRCUIT EMPIRE THEATERS |
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WHAT’S THE CONCEPT?
A young girl (Carpenter) dies under the care of her parish priest (Wilkinson). Emily, a college girl, has the screaming fear that she has become possessed, after suffering from a feeble medical condition. When medical care doesn’t seem to be curing her, she turns to her faith instead. Under the care of her priest, her faith is in vain when finally, she meets her fate and dies one day. The controversies spill all over the movie when the priest is implicated in the tragedy and put on trial.
WHAT’S IT LIKE?
This is one of those mentally-engaging movies that illuminates the mind with all the double- edged truths that stem from spirituality, and the fallacies that follow. It pits spiritualism against science. It’s like cutting raw meat off a dead animal, with interesting twists like having a Parish priest represented by a business-minded, career-driven lawyer who is a pronounced atheist. Insomniacs, see this movie with your eyes shut. Sado-masochists, enjoy.
WORTH WATCHING?
The story is narrated through the intense investigations done in the courthouse, as the priest confesses to his experiences in watching Emily live through her possession. Other people in the trial add to the story with their macabre anecdotes, making it a multi-perspective narrative with a very evil streak running through. Middle-aged and single lawyer (Laura Linney) is very vocal in defending Richard Moore in the haunted debate of whether or not he is innocent. |
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