Horror Is The Best Part of Man

Rating: 7/10 (5 December 2017)

Jennifer Lawrence is a good actor, and Javier Bardem is almost as weird as he was in No Country For Old Men. Movies that spring to mind? All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, The Sentinel, and Silent House. This film is a metaphor for a certain perception of the world we live in, with riot police, loads of bloodshed for various reasons, religious crazies, insane fans, childish anarchists, and even liberated Blacks who have made it through college because of the relaxation of the Jim Crow laws. There is only one point to this film, and that is to watch a metaphor unfold about how God works in the world. There are different levels of his lovers, and those who obviously hate him, and those who long for him before they die--whose lives have been changed by his words. His wife, played by Lawrence, is his most ardent lover. She loves him so much that she has gone as far as recreating his house for him--being where she and God share their private lives together. There are some very unbiblical things going on here (we are, after all, talking about a director who put rock monsters in the story of Noah), but overall any film that can drag the viewers attention toward love for God gets at least 7 stars for originality and effort. "Horror is the best part of man, but he thinks it too expensive, for there he finds God."--Goethe