The Exorcism of Emily Rose
As far as I’m concerned, if one does not contemplate the otherworldly one is wasting one’s time in this world. Such is the message with The Exorcism of Emily Rose, a taught picture starring Laura Linney, who I’ll always watch, Father Richard Moore played by Tom Wilkinson who was so moving in In the Bedroom, and lead prosecutor played by Ethan Thomas, who was the lead actor who propels Roger Dodger. Laura Linney plays defending lawyer Erin Bruner who is adept at the defense of bad guys, but suddenly she’s pushed into this case by her firm and realizes that she must go with the flow and take exorcism on its own terms, which rails against her logical leanings. This film is based on a factual record from 1976, taken from a small German town and made Hollywood. These days I’m not into the horror flick as I function mainly on positive vibes in order to survive as a painter, but I follow Linney and this film reminds the audience that there are other things outside the courtroom that cannot be explained, which can be refreshing in a way as this is the truth. Just for a moment try quantifying my success for a minute, the fact that I can make a living painting and sculpting for 15 years. Without the right vibes and luck this is impossible. If you sat around the campfire to hear my stories about continuing to stay in business as a painter you wouldn’t believe me. So if you like weird and scary and you like Laura Linney and good actors this is a way to check out other ways humans suffer while we’re here alive. Nichole Kidman’s The Others is another superior flick in a strange, alarming but not crazy way. I stretch my brain on this front, but I’m not spending a lot of time here so there you have it. Oh yes, The Changeling George C. Scott is GREAT, The Deadzone Christopher Walkin, Spielburg’s Close Encounters, Poltergeist, Frailty Bill Paxton is not in this but the next scariest in an alternate category; then you go down the line on this front out of the extraordinary to the Butcher Boy, a quiet film in 1997 - then you go the Magdelene Sisters then a Crying Game and then you pop out into some weird Irish realm… where did that come from but I’ve got a point, as films create streams and they interconnect in strange ways. If you go the other way from this movie my apex remains Kubrick’s The Shining.
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