Brimstone (2017)
At the end of the day, people forget that religion and the Word were given to man to help them to live with each other in harmony. Most belief systems concur with this train of thought. Belief systems were put in place to give everyone a place in the Sun to enjoy the fruit of their existence. In the race to outdo each other and the gusto to follow the teaching to do what is perceived as right, people went overboard. Instead of seeing the whole picture, they became nitty-picky. They took the meanings of the writings of the scriptures in its literal sense and try to outdo each other by keeping true to the Word as they say it is supposed to mean. And they became hellbent on ensuring that everybody follows it to the core. That is when all hell broke loose. Any semblance of sanity can prevail only when someone within the community has the gumption, without fear of retribution from the unproven divine forces from above, to say what is sensible and what is not!
Keeping the scriptures sacred, incomprehensible to the masses kept the Catholic church hegemony of things related to spirituality as if the Church had direcgt connexions to the Divine forces above. See what happened when Martin Luther and his band of men lobbied for the translations of the Bible to vernacular languages. See the resistance and observe the mayhem that ensued after its translation. It appeared like Man could not handle the truth. Everybody thought they knew the key to the secret of the universe. Perhaps, the guessing game of the purpose of life and what is in store for us is the one that makes the world go around.
Brimstone (2017) is best described as a spaghetti Western combined with 'Cape Fear' (1962) and 'The Night of the Hunter' (1955). It tells the tale of a head of the family, a pastor, with a perverted view of the Christian faith and his ways of ensuring God's law prevail on Earth. He starts that by making sure that it starts at his home. He toes the line on how his wife should behave and how, he, as a Man, the superior gender should be treated. Women, who sow the seed for the original sin, should suffer for their actions of luring Man to direct disobey God in the Garden of Eden and coax him to submit to temptations! The meek Pastor's wife took all that in a stride as a curse of being born a woman but when their daughter comes of age and the father exhibits tendencies for incestuous desires, the mother acts.
It starts with the saga of the runaway girl, the protagonist. It is told in different timelines to grasp the attention of the viewers but is not for faint hearted. There are gore, blood, violence and objectionable scenes throughout the film, not to everybody's liking.
Keeping the scriptures sacred, incomprehensible to the masses kept the Catholic church hegemony of things related to spirituality as if the Church had direcgt connexions to the Divine forces above. See what happened when Martin Luther and his band of men lobbied for the translations of the Bible to vernacular languages. See the resistance and observe the mayhem that ensued after its translation. It appeared like Man could not handle the truth. Everybody thought they knew the key to the secret of the universe. Perhaps, the guessing game of the purpose of life and what is in store for us is the one that makes the world go around.
Brimstone (2017) is best described as a spaghetti Western combined with 'Cape Fear' (1962) and 'The Night of the Hunter' (1955). It tells the tale of a head of the family, a pastor, with a perverted view of the Christian faith and his ways of ensuring God's law prevail on Earth. He starts that by making sure that it starts at his home. He toes the line on how his wife should behave and how, he, as a Man, the superior gender should be treated. Women, who sow the seed for the original sin, should suffer for their actions of luring Man to direct disobey God in the Garden of Eden and coax him to submit to temptations! The meek Pastor's wife took all that in a stride as a curse of being born a woman but when their daughter comes of age and the father exhibits tendencies for incestuous desires, the mother acts.
It starts with the saga of the runaway girl, the protagonist. It is told in different timelines to grasp the attention of the viewers but is not for faint hearted. There are gore, blood, violence and objectionable scenes throughout the film, not to everybody's liking.
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