The summary of a true story about God and the Devil
The film directed by Scott Derrickson “, The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” is based on true story that took place in the mid-seventies in Germany. A true story, as well as impressive church scene, bedroom scene, and barn scene, were the basis for the publishing of a book about the reality of the devil by anthropologist Felicitas Goodman’s “The Exorcism of the Devil from Annelize Michael” and in 2005 and 2006 the Americans and Germans decided to film the real story.
“The Exorcism of Emily Rose” begins with the story of successful attorney Erin Bruner, who has just convinced a jury to release a hardened criminal. Erin is in good standing with her firm, and her bosses read her place among office partners. However, she will have to take part in a process that promises to be a true test for the ambitious Erin for strength and ability to take on trust the ideals alien to the reality of Erin.
In “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” the cleric Father Mohr is accused of causing death by negligence. The victim is a young girl named Emily Rose, who died of exhaustion as a result of permanent malnutrition, severe mental disorders, and numerous physical deprivation. The prosecution insists that the girl was sick with epilepsy and that she needed long-term drug treatment. The priest is convinced that the “disease” was of a completely different nature: Emily was possessed by the demon, and only faith in God and the exorcism could help her.
But in reality, Emily died. Neither the medicines prescribed by the doctors nor the church rituals could help her and could not bring her back to the reality. The warring parties have only the bare facts and a lot of speculation, on the basis of which they must not only make a fair decision with respect to Father More but also try to get to the bottom of the events that led them all to the courtroom.
Exorcism as a matter of possession
Exorcism, or getting rid of the Devil, is a matter of ancient and controversial possession, as the existence of the reality of the devil and the demons. Cast death had so many copies broken in the dialogues of theologians, scholars and ordinary citizens that this was not the subject of a single article or even of an important scientific or religious treatise. It is believed that Jesus Christ was the first “Exorcist,” then this problem was entirely in charge of the church, uprooting demons power from the parishioners in a variety of ways: from moral teachings to forced burning.
Derrickson’s tape “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” is much more drama than a standard horror movie with church scene and bedroom scene. It describes the reality of the devil. In “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” the authors, of course, succumbed to the temptation to intimidate the viewer with a demonstration of Emily Rose’s obsession and blood-chilling visions, but in the plot outline of the picture that evil possession is not the main thing.
The essence of the phenomenon of exorcism in “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”
In reality, the essence of the phenomenon of “possession with demons” has not been confirmed by facts yet, and eyewitness accounts of the devil, as a rule, are on a par with the testimony of people who have watched a UFO or have seen ghosts in reality. In other words, in the absence of irrefutable evidence, exorcism balances between reason and faith, unable to join one faction or another.
Claiming that the devil does not exist in nature, we are forced to substantiate true cases of obsession (like the one that formed the basis of the film) by purely empirical conclusions, pulling all spheres of human knowledge by the ears. Speaking of the opposite, or rather, believing that God, the Devil, and other religious maxims exist in reality, we risk burrowing into the same power of speculation and contradictions.
You can get scared of everything, the devil, inability for true defense in front of clock time. Everything looks so true, so real. It shows that reality can be good only with faith in God. The reality of the Devil is in possession to evil, in having no power for defense.
The worthwhile film to watch
The creators of the picture do not even try to give an important ready-made solution. The main heroine, as well as an adequate living person, doubts all the way, protecting the priest, whose faith, on the contrary, is unshakable and firm. It is important that in “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” this role was entrusted to a woman, a bright characteristic actress Laura Linney.
In reality, her character is forced to make a difficult choice between a brilliant career, a voice of reason and a desire to help a man who, knowing what is unequivocally condemned and stained, is not afraid to oppose himself to the church system and public censure. Interestingly, Linney has already a similar image in the filmography in the brilliant drama “The Life of David Gale,” where the actress played in a pair with the great Kevin Spacey.
In overall, “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” is an unusual symbiosis of judicial drama and thriller, almost a horror movie. It shows one important thing, well does not always triumph over the Devil, and justice is often delayed with its triumph by the evil. At the same time, the picture finally inexorably slides into a partial happy ending, although the general mood of the tape suggests that there are so many different things and phenomena beyond our understanding and clock time that we can only hope and believe that sooner or later we will know an important truth. That film proves us one more time that there will always be some things we will never understand.
