Ritual Try to choose a well -known frying horror about possessions and exorcism. This, exploring how the ancient Catholic ritual faces the modern world and the natural disbelief of priests. To do this, the tape tells everything that happened around the exorcism practiced by Emma Schmidt, the real episode that occurred in 1928 in the Ayov monastery. The fact that is important in the history of the church, from -s His future influence on how the relations of the institution are perceived with the supernatural.
Nevertheless, the film is more interested in studying the dilemmas of faith and, in particular, the ability of the demon to corrupt even the most devout. This is a common premise, which when the liba manages to make more earthly or clear, so it is lost in the number of hints of evil during persecution. Everything, in the middle of a gray, wet and claustrophobic atmosphere. So the tape Do not show supernatural events very directly, at least on its first stretchingField
Instead, he concentrates on an attempt to be the right original document, which tells about facts, a brochure called See you, Satan!The field, however, is not enough historical severity. The film moves between documentary history and supernatural horror without consolidation. His tone, gloomy for apathy, generates more discouraging than anxiety. And finally, the real problem of the tape. His plot seems to be nowhere to lead anywhere, Consider more than a series of common places about terror is unknown.
Argument full of cliches
The script written by director David Middell and Enriko Natale seems so determined to restore the historical context that forgets the dramatic tension. Although the elements of symamination appear – strange films, absurd vomiting, almost choreography of levitation – these moments do not cause shock, but boredom. In particular, because each scene seems to be a copy of a better known And, of course, it is better made in horror films.
Much more when the center of the script tries to clarify that exorcism is a more complex ritual than only one way to expel demons. Thus, the tape describes it with wide blows as a script in which she fights not only for the soul of obsessed. In addition, this is a battle for the integrity of the exorcist. A difficult point of view that the tape never develops and that most of the time is halfway.
For a similar mission, church commissions of two men with proven honesty. Feofil Raminger (Al Pachino) and a local clergyman, father Joseph Stayer (Dan Stevens). Both one and the other pass through the dilemmas of faith, have a stormy past and an unconventional perspective with the supernatural. Of course, comparison with Exorcist (1973) William Fridkin is inevitable. But David Middell lacks the ability to deepen the horror and darkness of the human mind, Through a religious fact.
A small original premise in the “Ritual”
In fact, the tape spends time and energy, trying to show Emma (Ebigail Cowen) as a secret for a solution. The character spends most of the time locked in the basement, in which he suffers from a series of episodes that should shock. In particular, because the script is trying to assume that the inexplicable phenomena that arise are in a slippery field between faith and madness. But the sequence of dark sounds, groans and trembling ultimately look mechanical.
Not too much context for the central point about what is actually happening during ownership. Emma is just a car to tell a story, not having a lot to offer an argument. The same can be said about the nuns who accompany her, who serve as witnesses than the characters. Everything, caught in a trapped terrible contents of the paper. Thus, the great conflict of this production is not so much in its performance and in its conceptual decision. The film seeks to demonstrate fidelity to facts, but at the same time it is delivered without a reservation to a supernatural explanation. That is, I believe in demons.
This is especially upset when more interesting glimpses. What if Emma was not obsessed, but psychologically violated? And if trauma, religion, isolation, were more than the background? Emily Rose Exorcism (2005) He already turned to this ambiguity with great skill, opening the space for the debate.
IN RitualOn the other hand, the characters quickly refuse doubts. Pacino, like the tanned exorcist, seems to act on the autopilot, moving solemnity, but without conviction. Its central European accent is false and awkward, which adds an involuntary parody layer. Stevens, with the contained action, This seems remote from the situation and brings little the plot.
Horror film in which there is nothing to offer
In the end, Ritual He seeks to offer something different from the canon of exorcism. But before doing this, it ultimately approaches dangerous To the diluted version of more twisted and the best cassettes.
The formula is present: an experienced priest, a young tubetive, convicted victim. Nevertheless, he does this with such awkwardness that the parallels do nothing but emphasizing the restrictions of the script. Thus, for his last scenes, the ritual is a much more collection of shocks than a philosophical reflection that he intends. In addition, disappointment for lovers of horror movie. The worst that we can say about such a project.
Source: Hiper Textual
