This movie will make your blood absolutely boil. If ever you needed proof that organized religion is a destructive, delusive, maniacal force that brings misery to people's lives, this movie is it.
Almost anything I might say here about the movie would be something of a spoiler... You just need to see it, from the beginning, and let the story make its simple, compelling case.
This movie is almost kind of a modern, real-life, thinking-man's CARRIE-- (the Stephen King story). It is sly, smooth, seamless, cool and compelling in tone and style.
Filmically, this movie carries on in the recent tradition of German films like REQUIEM (2006, dir. Hans Christian Schmid) and PARADISE:FAITH (dir. Ulrich Seidl, 2012) which deeply question the value of Christian brainwash in modern society, especially a society like Germany's, with its devotion to science. Essentially, these three movies show how religion... makes people batshit crazy, and makes them do cruel, mindless, absurd things.
If you're not foaming at the mouth by the end of this picture-- with indignant rage-- check your pulse. Some have blithely blathered that this movie is a religious tale of a girl's sainthood. That's SO not what this movie is saying; the director wanted to light a torch under your backside, pure 'n' simple.
Almost anything I might say here about the movie would be something of a spoiler... You just need to see it, from the beginning, and let the story make its simple, compelling case.
This movie is almost kind of a modern, real-life, thinking-man's CARRIE-- (the Stephen King story). It is sly, smooth, seamless, cool and compelling in tone and style.
Filmically, this movie carries on in the recent tradition of German films like REQUIEM (2006, dir. Hans Christian Schmid) and PARADISE:FAITH (dir. Ulrich Seidl, 2012) which deeply question the value of Christian brainwash in modern society, especially a society like Germany's, with its devotion to science. Essentially, these three movies show how religion... makes people batshit crazy, and makes them do cruel, mindless, absurd things.
If you're not foaming at the mouth by the end of this picture-- with indignant rage-- check your pulse. Some have blithely blathered that this movie is a religious tale of a girl's sainthood. That's SO not what this movie is saying; the director wanted to light a torch under your backside, pure 'n' simple.