I don't think this glorifies crime. Because:
1.) the killers believe they're destroying demons, not killing people. And acknowledge that killing people is bad. The father literally said all that. More than once, I think. As in the crimes in this film are portrayed through two point of views: the right-minded who purely point it out as bad, and the delusional minded who also point crime out as bad and believe that they're not doing crime. Every character and event is saying killing is bad and wrong, and the film takes a mental illness approach to have them keep doing it anyway.
b.) the one time the father knowingly killed a human, he did it crying and literally threw up right after it.
c.) The father brutally killed people in front of his 10-year old and 13-year old children, and even though one of the boys begged him not to. And even though the younger boy was btainwshed/delusional/childlikely beliving in whatever his father told him, he was nonetheless a little boy watching his parent butcher people. And he clearly wasn't enjoying any of it no matter what he believed his father was doing.
How does any of that glorify crime?
Plus:
d.) the supernatural twist could basically be said to glorify crime, but I daresay most people don't take it like that. Non-believers certainly wouldn't give a crap about God's involvment but simply think murder is wrong. And any healthy believer is likely to live by one of the Ten Commandments that say "you shall not kill". As in, the real world's popular mythology, God has literally made killing one of the greatest sins. Therefore "God told them to kill these people" twist in a fictional story justifises it in its own fictional universe but fails to justify or glorify the kills for the viewer's universe.
reply
share