The Conjuring Conjures Up Hopes for a Better Sequel

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2015)

The concept of white supremacy is what produces such images and characters as "Superman" (all powerful), Aquaman (controller of the seas), Wonder Woman (an amazon with super powers), Batman (super smart and virile), Thor (a Norse "god" that exists in their mythology that came to comic books and is now a hit on film), the Hulk (white man is a genius but creates a laser/radiation beam that puts color in his skin and when he turns green, he goes berserk), Daredevil (blind man with super acrobatic powers, is an attorney by day), Spiderman (punk kid gets bitten by a Spider and gets super powers, speed and fights crime for free), and so many more. But in the white supremacy culture, it is equally important to show that just "regular white folks" can also be masters of their domain and of those around them. This is where "The Conjuring" comes in. People want us to believe that in November of 1971, this stuff really happened. That is bovine scatology, plain and simple. Afamily moves into a house that is "haunted" as in so many other movies("Poltergeise," "Amityville Horror," "The Haunting," "Dream House"etc.). In this case the demons must be "exorcised" from the home and that is where we find the link between white supremacy and the white view of their religious beliefs. As I've written elsewhere, the white man sees religion and the concept of "god" as nothing less than an extension of his own power. In this movie the Catholic church gets all this credit for being able to "exorcise" demons, not only from individuals, but also from houses. It is no longer enough to "exorcise" the devil from human beings; now we have a residential structure and, as the pastor points out, "This house needs an exorcism." There are criteria for you to qualify to have an exorcism performed, we learn. You have to be a member of the (Catholic) church, the kids involved (one was being possessed by a demon) have to have been baptized and third, you have to have approval from the Vatican. What? This movie didn't hold true to that because the guy that performed the exorcism for the family that was having the problems had kids that weren't baptized (at one point he says we were eventually going to get around to it) and they DIDN'T get the permission from the Vatican, although at movie's end the writers made it a point to throw in a final scene where the couple that performed the exorcism "finally got the call from the Vatican." But these whites had already solved the problem, defeated the devil, and all is well. This whole idea of ghost hunters, haunted artifacts and these apparitions is a recurring themes in these movies (as in the case of "This Is The End"). All of this pays into the white man's view of himself and the pervasiveness of his power. And of course, there is the flip side: since all religious, saintly, holy and spiritual power equates to white power, then expect references to evil (as in this movie) to be regarded as "a DARK spirit." Or how about this line: "I've been seeing the DARK entity that haunts your family – it's feeding off you." According to this white supremacy-based bullshit, there are three phases to someone being taken over by the evil. These stages are, first of all "infestation," where a bunch of evil spirits congregate in a body and, as in this case, an actual house. Second is "oppression," and that's where they start playing pranks on you, messing with lights, slamming doors and, in short, scaring the living bajeebies out of you. Third is "possession," and that's where the evil spirit takes control and sees you and anyone else as an invader or outsider. The title of the movie is, "The Conjuring." According to Webster's Dictionary, "to summon by or as if by invocation or incantation." In other words, a key part of the exorcism is to call on the devil to get the hell out of the body it is possessing, so you're "conjuring up" the evil. But guess what? There's another meaning as well and it's mostly used by the British. But these people are related by culture and their collective hatred of people of color, so you have to study words that they use in their entire context. To "conjure" also means "to treat or regard as important." What??? And therefore a "conjuring" could also mean to pay homage or tribute to, couldn't it? And is that not what I am alleging: that the white man's evil ways here on earth are, indeed, "devilish"?