{"id":2353,"date":"2008-11-01T03:24:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T10:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generoseberry.com\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2008-11-01T03:29:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T10:29:17","slug":"the-exorcism-of-emily-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"The Exorcism of Emily Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three things to start. First, I have not done any research into any factual events that inspired the movie, The Exorcism of Emily Rose<\/em><\/a>, so I’m not speaking to those. Second, I’m not reviewing the movie for it’s entertainment value.\u00a0 For me the film was tainted heavily by the following complaints, which I intend to keep brief, just because, but someone else might still enjoy the film.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 Third, spoilers to follow.<\/p>\n

The story of this movie tells is of a trial for a priest accused of negligent homicide because of the death of a young woman after she is put in his care, and after an exorcism is performed.\u00a0 It does this by showing the events that lead to the death from both the prosecution’s side, and the defenses.\u00a0 It sprinkles in some stuff hinting that the demons and stuff is really real, but there’s room for interpretation that the characters affected are just getting rattled by the case or whatever.\u00a0 Overall this film tried to pull the whole “fair and balanced” scheme, to a blatant degree.\u00a0 Several times in the movie they basically spell out that that’s what they’re doing.<\/p>\n

Now, in actuality I’m very in favor of being open minded and deciding for yourself.\u00a0 However, this movie is a cavalcade of all the abuses of this philosophy.\u00a0 False dichotomies swarm from the script and no regard is given to prior probability. False assertions are made and unquestioned, straw men show up fairly regularly.\u00a0 And the icing on the cake, is the argument that any doubt is reasonable doubt.\u00a0 *rolls eyes*<\/p>\n

Still, what they were trying most to do was make a movie that everyone could kinda grab something they agree with and feel good about, and therefore, hopefully like the movie.\u00a0 They might have succeeded (although probably not for the likes of me, but for, like, 98% of the world) if it hadn’t been for the sentencing.\u00a0 They took their desire to play both sides evenly too far.<\/p>\n

In the end, the priest is found guilty of negligent homicide, but sentenced to time served, meaning he was free to go.\u00a0 The jury and judge concluded that the priests actions directly resulted in the horrible death of a 19 year old, and also conclude that nothing should be done about it?\u00a0 And the movie acts like this is a good thing?\u00a0 Whether you agree with the verdict or not, you have to agree that given a guilty verdict for the crime negligent homicide, there should be some substantial punishment.\u00a0 In the case of Me v. the judge and jury from this movie, I find the defendant guilty on 13 counts of moral bankruptcy, philosophical inconsistency, and general douchbaggery.<\/p>\n

*shakes head*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three things to start. First, I have not done any research into any factual events that inspired the movie, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, so I’m not speaking to those. Second, I’m not reviewing the movie for it’s entertainment value.\u00a0 For me the film was tainted heavily by the following complaints, which I intend to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-i-think","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}