Conversely, the film reveals a weakness when it diverges from this portrayal at the end, when the portrayal of the Devil verges upon evil overlord. He describes, for example, the twentieth century as being almost wholly his. Whilst this does a great job of showing the Devil as evil and the fount of evil, he's supposed to be tempting Kevin Lomax to join him at this moment! What sane human would not be revulsed by such an admission?
But then, failure of imagination and of comprehension of some key things about humans is also a regular character element in the Christian devil: it's not implausible that one could come to such a scene (I've not seen the film in question) with the intention of using it to show the Devil's limitations in not grokking that human reaction.
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Date: 2008-12-18 07:45 pm (UTC)But then, failure of imagination and of comprehension of some key things about humans is also a regular character element in the Christian devil: it's not implausible that one could come to such a scene (I've not seen the film in question) with the intention of using it to show the Devil's limitations in not grokking that human reaction.