The Devils

"Satan is ever ready to seduce us with sensual delights." Sister Jeanne says this in the movie-and if anything, it goes to show that Grandier had already taken the place of a devil in her mind, solely because of her own desires--she blames her lust for him upon the devil, upon him. This notion sort of foreshadows the events that soon took place in the film. The depiction of a nation's hypocrisy through religious imagery was what made the film so grimly gripping, I LOVEEEE Ken Russell's theatrical style (literal king of camppp !!) of showing the grotesqueries that even nuns, cardinals and priests are bound to commit, they are human, and humans are flawed. It's almost as if all the sacrilege that the nuns committed was merely just something to distract the masses from the state's intentions, one could even go so far as to say that Grandier's death was both a distraction and a necessary thing for the state. A distraction for the people of Loudon; and a means to an end for the state.