Friday, November 11, 2005
Today, for a change has been an interesting and happier day to punctuate my overall gloomy week. They're still talking about the "yang Mu Ze" and speculating all kinds of possiblities, tell you the truth, I'm pretty intrigied myself. So they're all high and I guess I'll just go with the flow for now.
Our juniors positron came by to visit us! Really loved that =) But I think the rest of the bme are starting to get tired of our bench's over-exuberant performance. So they left early, and we left the bme centre for our movie. I was looking forward to this actually after a sluggish week.
We met up with the rest to watch the "exorcism of Emily rose". It was a good movie, a 3.5/5 star.
Based on a true story, this film is both a riveting courtroom drama and a first class chiller. A Catholic Priest is on trial for homicidal negligence after performing a failed exorcism on Emily Rose, devout college girl now dead from assorted wounds and malnutrition.
Erin Bruner is the priest's defense lawyer, and Campbell Scott plays the chief prosecutor, who argues persuasively that Emily was likely suffering from psychotic epilepsy and could have been saved with hospitalization and medicine.
The demonic possession unfolds in a series of spine-tingling flashbacks and as it does so, the initially doubtful Erin is visited by evil forces and her own soul seems to be at stake. More than a criminal negligence case, the trial becomes about the importance of recognizing the limits of rationality and the possibility of a world beyond the visible.
In portraying the extent to which wildly different belief systems have splintered modern society this film couldn’t be more relevant or timely. Each character lives a life of apparent near-isolation, which adds to the cumulative effect of unease.
The house where Emily grows up is spookily oppressive, the scenes of possession are truly scary and a dark sense of foreboding may follow viewers long after the credits have rolled. Carpenter earns a place as a 21st century scream queen with her hair-raising, fearless performance.
I am now more firm in my faith in the lord.
5:51 PM
