A different (and lonely) view

Rating: Null/10 (27 April 2001)

I first saw The Exorcist this year (2001), with some friends.Having heard a lot about the movie, I was persuaded that i'd be completely horrified after watching it... Not at all! I obviously respect any other opinions, but i can't really see what's so special about it! Personally, this is not the kind of movie that makes me shiver... it's just so unreal that it won't haunt when you go home after watching it. I guess that films like Scream (the first one, specially) is what kind of scares me, because you have that everyday-life-component that makes you think if all doors and windows are locked when you're in bed. I'm not saying that "The Exorcist" is a bad movie, not at all, i believe that it is one of the best in its kind, but what i really felt like the dominant key in the movie were not the horrific scenes (good make up, anyway...) but the "fall of an angel", the destruction of that connection between mother and child, the maternal suffering, the constrast between a time of happiness and harmony and a new moment of fallen innocence and despair, that William Friedkin so beautifully and tallentedly portraits. I will finally remember this film not as the best horror movie of all time, but (in my opinion) as a great metaphor of how life and earthly bonds are weak, and of our "stigmata" of divine dependence, the infinite maze of questions about the existence of a superior being. I just wanted to leave here a different approach, a different angle of watching it... Go see it if you can, it's worth it.