Chapter 258 Crying Theater(1/2)
When the Exorcist Video was screened here, young people love its tension and stimulation and suspense, and screaming out of control on the roller coaster; while older audiences also love its family, faith and other topics, the origins of horror and pain are different, the same is looking forward to the next story.
When the scenes were switched, the film sounded the sound of the soundtrack for the first time, and the soft piano music that seemed sad and warm, and the camera became stable again, as if it was a regular movie.
The sunset showed that it was the second day. Cotton was carefully preparing for exorcism in the dining room of the ancient house. He looked through the family's ancient exorcism books, holding a cross in his hand, and muttering words...
The musician who served as a pseudo-documentary had very little workload, but Jiya knew it was difficult to do it well. In addition to setting off appropriately, she could not destroy the sense of reality. She really didn't expect that Ye Wei did not use weird music to create the atmosphere in the horror scenes before, but instead seemed to give everyone a breath here.
The audience listened quietly to the piano music and watched the scene without dialogue continuing on the screen.
Behind the farm woods, Switzer and Ramon buried Amy's grave again. The father and son supported the shovel handle and looked at the tombstone. Both faces were calm and firm. At this time, Ramon hugged his father's shoulders, and opened his mouth and said, "Dad, I'm sorry." Switzer nodded slightly.
All viewers can see Ramon growing, the rifts of this family are being bridged, it is like a ray of sunshine penetrates into the heart, and things are getting better.
At this time, Cotton walked from a distance, stood in front of Amy's grave, and prayed with the Bible.
The audience also saw the charlatan priest changing his attitude. He knew the real existence of the demon and invaded here. He was full of apology and reshaping his faith. He wanted to help the family. Seeing the concerted efforts of everyone, there was only the same target on and off the screen, destroying the damn demon.
The piano sounded low, and the clanging iron chains sounded. In the barn scene, Maggie was still sitting in the corner with her hands and feet locked by the iron chains, and had woken up. The female recording engineer was standing not far away and chatting with her.
"I'm very sorry. I killed Katie and injured Ramon. I was completely unconscious and could not control myself..." Maggie said blamingly, looking confused and helpless.
The female recording engineer comforted and said, "It's not you who do those things, it's the devil. Maggie, you are not wrong. Don't blame yourself, you are a kind and beautiful girl.
"Ms.... do you have someone you like?" After hearing her praise, Maggie suddenly asked softly, glanced at the camera in the distance, a little shy, as if she was afraid that she would be photographed.
"Yes, I have." The female recording engineer replied with a smile, "I have a boyfriend, his name is David, and we have been in love for five years."
"What does that feel like? I mean love?" Maggie asked again, her face becoming more ashamed, but she was a little excited to know.
"I can't tell you that love is a feeling that cannot be told." The female recording engineer laughed and said, "You will know it yourself in the future."
Maggie seemed to be thinking about something and was very quiet, saying: "I like a boy. He was my classmate in the third chemistry class before... He didn't know me, and I haven't seen him for a long time." The female recording engineer asked in a warm voice: "What's his name?" Maggie smiled slightly: "Vic. He must not like me. I have done so many bad things..." She said and looked sad again.
"Maggie, you did nothing bad." said the female recording engineer seriously. "When you get out of here, you should confess to him. A girl like you will not like you without a boy."
"Is that true?" Maggie smiled sweetly, shyly and longingly, like the looming sound of the piano, touching the heartstrings of the audience, "I think you are, you are so friendly."
The female recording engineer laughed: "Haha thank you."
Both screening halls have sunlight, and many young audiences have a sense of expectation like Debbie. The second exorcism will be successful, the Switzer family will overcome difficulties, Maggie will return to normal life, she will confess to Vick and enjoy youth and love. Cotton will become a good exorcist who saves the world...
But no one has forgotten that this is a horror movie. Everyone has an indelible depression, worries and fear in their hearts, just like the shadow behind the sun.
What did that guy want to do? Jiya felt the danger even more, feeling that this was the peace before the storm.
The scene switched, and the soundtrack gradually rose. Cotton congratulated the holy water in a solemn and sacred quiet room in the ancient house, put it into a crystal bottle, with a pious expression.
In this scene, the believers and audiences prayed silently. Some people cut crosses on their bodies, and some people shouted in a low voice, "Put the demon's nose."
The scene was cut again, in the living room of the room, Ramon sat on the sofa and watched TV, and some video was playing on the TV. The camera moved, and Cotton walked down from the second floor with many holy relics. When he heard the movement, Switzer walked from the dining room and asked expectantly: "Pastor, are you ready?"
"Let's go and exorcize." Cotton's face was so serious and quiet, and he walked out of the house.
The soundtrack that became exciting stopped, the scene was cut again, and the camera followed everyone into the gloomy barn at the end. Maggie was still sitting calmly in the corner. She looked at it and asked nervously: "Are you going to exorcise..."
Cotton walked to her, squatted down, with his back to the camera, and his voice was serious: "Maggie, I want to do another exorcism for you. It was my fault that the first time I failed. But we all need to have faith that the demon cannot fight against the power of God. As long as we believe, we will be saved."
Maggie nodded, her pale face trying hard to firmly, "I believe."
Cotton stood up, holding a generous Bible in his left hand, a bottle of holy water in his right hand, and a cross hanging on his neck. The second exorcism is about to begin
Switzer and others stood on the distance, all of whom were nervous.
The audience sat upright, looking forward to it
"Lord Jesus Christ, you have given your believers the power to conquer the demons in your name and suppress all the power of the enemy. Because of your virtue, Satan fell from heaven like lightning; with fear and trembling heart, I beg your holy name, to expel the demon who troubles you, Margaret Tashaweitz, with faith, under the protection of your mighty power, and to urge your holy light to return her to light. Amen."
Cotton read a passage of exorcism in abrupt manner and drew a cross name at Maggie in the air, "For the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."
The camera was pointed at Maggie's face in close-up. She became more and more nervous. Cold sweat broke out on her face. Her brown eyes were closed and opened, and she closed again and again, not knowing what to do.
"Lord, to save mankind, you pour your blessings into this water, so that your creatures can gain your holy power, drive away evil spirits, and eliminate all evil spirits' conspiracies cannot succeed, and when this water is sprinkled, your believers will be at peace."
Cotton continued to read the scriptures in his voice-over, and suddenly clear water fell on Maggie, and she suddenly trembled slightly strangely...
The camera was hard, and Cotton used the opened holy water to Maggie and continued to recite: "My Lord, you always give mercy and protection to the weak. Please accept our prayers, Margaret Tashaweitz, the servant bound by the demon, will be freed from your kindness and mercy..."
Suddenly Cotton hadn't finished reading, the strange soundtrack sounded, like a demon from hell, the camera had turned, Maggie was already trembling violently, her face and expression turned into evil hatred in a few moments, and the demon completely occupied her again, and it was in this serious second exorcism.
She suddenly said coldly: "Is there any nonsense? I'll play with her without me."
The audience's hearts were immediately tugged with discomfort, the demon... were not afraid of being young or not young eyes.
At such a close distance, the sound of clanging iron chains, Maggie slowly stood up, and began to twist her body again, tilting back from her waist as if she had broken herself into two parts, her vicious eyes facing the camera, "Remember, Remember, Remember"
With her screaming louder than before, the whole barn roared like an earthquake, and the camera shook violently. The surrounding farm tools and other debris fell down.
The camera swept over, Switzer and others were shocked. Cotton's face was covered in cold sweat again, and the cold sweat on his back wet his robe, but he continued to read the scriptures loudly, shouting: "I command you with the holy power of Jesus Christ to leave this innocent girl immediately."
The two screening halls were filled with nervousness, and many viewers were sweating all over. No one was eating popcorn, and the couple were hugging each other or holding hands.
"No one is innocent." Maggie smiled, "Everyone is a sinner." Her resentful brown eyes glanced at everyone, "You are all sinners, you will all go to hell."
The camera was hard-cut, Switzer, Ramon, and the female recorder were all full of grief. They wanted to do something but couldn't do anything.
"Leave this girl now," Cotton shouted, stroking the cross, "Leave this girl now."
Maggie suddenly screamed a few times like being burned, which was very painful. It seemed that Cotton's exorcism was not ineffective. However, the demon was angry. She suddenly sat down with a sudden horse. However, due to the constraints of the iron chain, it was obvious that it was difficult to do this action. She screamed out loud. It was Maggie's scream.
Every audience member was confused, his heart was blank, and the division of each cell was nervous and cold
The second exorcism was destroyed, and there was no smooth scene, not a single one, only a greater horror...
Everyone is a sinner, but people often forget this point, and it is not God but the demon who reminds you.
"No..." Switzer and others screamed in grief. The camera did not leave Maggie. Her long hair fell to the ground. After screaming, she raised her face. She was sickly pale and covered with cold sweat. The more weird demonic voice: "Cotton, you will go to see a psychologist sooner or later, because your premature son will die like this bitch now. It's because you meddled with us. You angered us. Your son will suffer the same pain."
In the close-up shot, Cotton's face changed a little when he heard this. I wonder if it was because the demon could say that he had a premature baby. He shouted: "Don't listen, don't listen to everything, the demon knows how to deceive people the most, ignore it." He took off the cross on his neck and raised it, and exorcist shouted: "Look at the cross of the Lord, drive you away from this girl."
"Ah," Maggie screamed, lowering her head in pain. Suddenly, in the horror of the audience, her upper body leaned back to the ground, and her lower body was still erect, protruding its abdomen, becoming higher and higher, as if something was breaking out of her belly, she screamed: "Ahh..."
"My Lord, please save this servant who looks up to you." Cotton's palm was facing Maggie's head, and his voice trembled a little sad: "Please give me mercy and drive away this demon."
Suddenly, the sound of the chain breaking was a nervous close-up shot. Maggie's chains were broken. She put away her horse and stood up shakingly.
"Oh my god" the female recorder's shock, Switzer and Ramon's wailing cry "Maggie", and Cotton's exorcism sounded at the same time: "My Lord, shine on you servant."
"I said, she's mine." Maggie spread her hands again, and the sound of the chain breaking, and her hands were no longer bound, and she rushed towards Cotton with a hideous slap.
The camera became extremely shaking instantly. Cotton hurriedly showed the cross, but Maggie raised her kick and kicked her. He was kicked backwards. She fell out of the camera and then took him back to the feet of Switzer and others. Cotton coughed in pain, blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, and the holy objects on his hands fell to the ground.
Oh my God... The audience's heartbeat was almost stopped. They gritted their teeth, but they were very weak. Cotton was completely at a disadvantage. His ability was not enough to drive away the demon.
All three film critics noticed that the change in the situation actually started with the demon threatening Cotton to hurt his son. From that moment on, he was shaken again. His "don't listen" was called to himself. The most different thing about priests and pastors is that priests have families. When family and faith conflict... Cotton always has a weak belief.
On the screen, the scene is out of control
The barn was shaking as if it was about to collapse. Maggie didn't go up to attack everyone, grabbed her hair and lifted it up hard, her face from redness to blue veins, obviously she wanted to pull away her long black and brown hair with her scalp.
Don't torture Maggie anymore. At this time, the audience was as sad and fearful as Cotton and others.
The female recorder cried and asked for help: "Cotton, Cotton, stop it quickly." Switzer became silent, pulled Cotton next to him, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and shouted to take a few steps forward, "Demon, if you can kill us, will you still wait? You can't be afraid of the power of Christ. I will leave Maggie immediately in the name of my Lord."
"Is that right?" The camera cut off. Maggie continued to pull her hair while Maggie screamed. Suddenly, she grabbed a small handful of hair from her hands and threw it away. Her painful face showed a strange smile, "You see how she died slowly."
As she said that, she suddenly broke Maggie's index finger, and the girl's screams echoed through the barn, echoed through the screening hall, echoed through the hearts of the audience, and stirred up a huge wave of shock.
At this time, the camera captured Switzer walking to the left of the frame and taking out something from the half-overturned broken wooden cabinet beside the wall. An old-fashioned shotgun raised his gun and aimed at Maggie at the far end. His middle-aged face, which was cut by tears, looked extremely complicated. He said in a trembling voice: "I won't let you torture my daughter again..."
The audience was shocked, and many people then remembered that the TPT poster was like this scene, Cotton held the cross, while Switzer held the shotgun
But, why are there guns in the barn?
There was excitement flashing in the eyes of film critics, and the chaotic thoughts expressed clear meanings. The gun was prepared by Switzer for a long time, and he had been preparing for the failure of exorcism. The cross represents the power of God and the power of faith; and the shotgun represents the power of ordinary people and the power of technology.
It turns out that until now, Switzer has not yet found his faith. God does not help solve the devil, so he solves it himself.
The screen became even more nervous and panicked, and the female recording engineer shouted in surprise, "Don't shoot, stop him quickly." Ramon shouted: "Dad, that's Maggie."
"It's not, it's a demon..." Switzer choked up.
At this moment, Maggie suddenly seemed to have recovered her mind and cried with difficulty: "Dad, kill me, it has not fully possessed me, kill me now, kill me
"No, don't" the camera shook, Cotton blocked the gun and said anxiously: "As long as we believe, there must be other solutions."
Switzer was trembling all over, and cried in grief, looking up at the sky, "Is God watching? Is God suffering from seeing my daughter? Where is God
Both screening halls were so depressed that they couldn't breathe. The audience was speechless. Why, because we are all sinners?
"Have you considered it?" Maggie's demonic tone suddenly sounded again, and she began to torture the body again, breaking one finger after another. Maggie's screams and the demon's strange laughter switched back and forth. After a while, she vomited blood in her mouth, her eyes were red and almost dripping blood.
During this period, Cotton looked through the ancient exorcist book with sweat on his head. The pages of mysterious patterns and close-ups of words. His panic-turning undoubtedly showed that he had not even figured out what kind of demon he was facing. The "AbaIam" he mentioned before was just a lie.
His flipping was getting slower and slower, because a thick book was turned to the end...
At this time, a scene flashed back on the screen. Before leaving, in Cotton's study, how could Cotton throw away ancient exorcism books? He picked up a psychology book and said to the camera with a smile: "Exorcist is a profession that is far behind the times and is sooner or later eliminated, so I have studied psychology very early and I have to support my family."
Maggie's scream brought the screen back to the barn. Switzer, who was slapped on the side of the camera, was tearful and was about to shoot at any time.
Cotton put down the ancient exorcist book he had finished and looked at Maggie there, and his expression gradually became as firm as ever before. He held the cross and walked away, "Please the Lord Jesus receive my soul."
At this moment, the audience's hearts were trembling. Cotton wanted to martyrdom and finally strengthened his faith.
Film critics are blinded by the fact that Cotton wants to save Maggie and herself in a martyrdom way, like Father Carras? Impossible, TPT is obviously different from the Exorcist
To be continued...