The Rapture

[Gendo]

A few years ago someone here, or at least someone on IMDB, said that I should watch this movie. So I bought it a few years ago, and just now finally watched it.

Wow. Holy crap. I wouldn't say that it's amazingly good or anything, but it's so intense and haunting, which I like in movies. One of those movies that just left me sitting still through the entire credits in silence.

I find it interesting that they seemingly changed around a couple things to make it so that the religion in question iosnt just mainstream real-world Christianity, such as the whole thing about the pearl and "the boy." I guess ultimately the film is a statement against fundamentalism or religion in general. Though at the same time, in the movie, the Christians end up being right. I guess some poeple think that the ending is meant to be all just her going crazy and imagining all that stuff, but I feel like it makes more sense to just say that it was really happening.

Compelling, good, haunting. Worth a watch.

Oh, and I loved the silence during the end credits. Fit so perfectly. More movies (of this type) should do that.

[Gendo]

Now I'm gonna watch something lighthearted to recover from that.

[Gendo]

You people suck.

[Cassius Clay]

I'm gonna watch it.

sike!

[vnufeld]

Hm? What? Were you saying something?

[Cassius Clay]

I'm watching this movie right now. It better be everything you've promised it is, or I'll sue.

[Cassius Clay]

Ok. So Thomas Newman does the score, and I can already see that his music is responsible for a lot of the haunting feel of the movie.

[Gendo]

Wow I hadn't realized that, but that explains a lot.

[Cassius Clay]

I fell asleep watching a couple times, but the movie is definitely a bit eerie. Especially the ending. Mostly because God basically turns out to be a sort of villain by the end

[Derived Absurdity]

^ sold

[Cassius Clay]

My work here is done.