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Was anyone else offended by this movie?


I'll start off by saying that I thought this was a well shot, well acted film. I thought that it started off well. The backstory was suspensful and made you think "What if?".

The message that I got from the ending was that there really are demons and angels and that Adam and his father could see them. This is evident by the fact that as soon as Adam touched the agent, the agent could not defend himself and had succumbed to the "power of god", the fact that no one could see the faces on the tape, and could not recall Adam's face. Regardless of the fact of whether he and his father had made up the other backgrounds of the "demons", Adam was made to seem correct.

Is the director telling us that there are in fact, demons and angels? If so, this is not only unfulfilling and sanctimonious, but it is a real cheat for the script.

Please someone write whether I just got the wrong take on this movie and maybe I am incorrect, or if this what one was supposed to take this movie as...

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And what makes you think there are no angels and demons? 300 years ago, people didn't know that bacteria was a real thing because they couldn't see it. Maybe we're not yet ready to see angels.

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All of the people killed were evil people. Those people already commited heinous crimes and who knows how many more peoples lives would be destroyed if those people were allowed to continue living.

This is the story that move sets. Its not justifying atrocities committed by the catholic church. Its not shouting death to the infidels!

Its merely a story about an average man who believes he is called by God to serve him as an agent of justice. He has visions of the bad things the people did before he kills them (as Gods way of removing any doubt that these people need to die). We the audience are unsure if the father is going insane or what, but by the end of the movie we are given a revelation showing us that he was in fact telling the truth and God chose them to bring justice to those evil people in the world.

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If people are offended by supernatural horror movies, they probably shouldn’t watch them.

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