There’s a lot of general concepts worth talking about in here like dysfunctional family dynamics and how that tension can be heightened by past turmoils slowly crawling into your life, but I don’t think any of the themes ever gelled into anything fully explored or realized to me. Family situations heating up in this film are very obviously shown and even implied, but just never come to make something new that’s unraveled throughout the movie, but rather feels a bit repetitive to me.
As everyone said, it’s clear that Harry stands for some kind of devil - Going into their house and spouting sins against the church like promoting lust or immoral sacrifice, hoping someone agrees. He’s also a subtle manipulator, using his welcoming, almost too welcoming personality to try and obscure his more sinister and unsettling nature behind him. There’s a lot of context in that manipulation and why it works so well, blurring the lines between an endearing former friend or a reclaimed enemy, looking the resurrect the past blood that may have existed in the relations.
The problem for me simply is there’s not enough context to get fully on board. They present characters at you and imply so much past turmoils between so many different family members yet never establish the history or context behind any tension between the family members, but instead throw you into the pool of chaos. That for me makes the subtlety some say is in the film a bit hard to catch as well as make the film as a whole more difficult to resonate with beyond the general themes the film presents. Maybe this just isn’t for me. Danny Glover puts on a stellar performance though
There’s a lot of general concepts worth talking about in here like dysfunctional family dynamics and how that tension can be heightened by past turmoils slowly crawling into your life, but I don’t think any of the themes ever gelled into anything fully explored or realized to me. Family situations heating up in this film are very obviously shown and even implied, but just never come to make something new that’s unraveled throughout the movie, but rather feels a bit repetitive to me.
As everyone said, it’s clear that Harry stands for some kind of devil - Going into their house and spouting sins against the church like promoting lust or immoral sacrifice, hoping someone agrees. He’s also a subtle manipulator, using his welcoming, almost too welcoming personality to try and obscure his more sinister and unsettling nature behind him. There’s a lot of context in that manipulation and why it works so well, blurring the lines between an endearing former friend or a reclaimed enemy, looking the resurrect the past blood that may have existed in the relations.
The problem for me simply is there’s not enough context to get fully on board. They present characters at you and imply so much past turmoils between so many different family members yet never establish the history or context behind any tension between the family members, but instead throw you into the pool of chaos. That for me makes the subtlety some say is in the film a bit hard to catch as well as make the film as a whole more difficult to resonate with beyond the general themes the film presents. Maybe this just isn’t for me. Danny Glover puts on a stellar performance though
