![]() We all recognize the cutesy documentary found footage conceit the initially skeptical doofuses the terrifying tells captured on film but unseen by the characters the confessions to the camera the meaningful blank spaces the apocalyptic, ambiguous denoument. I didn't see the Blair Witch Project somehow, but at this point its cancerously metastasizing progeny are so numerous that watching the original almost seems unnecessary. The Devil Inside, the exorcism flick hitting theaters today, has a ritual feel, but it's a ritual that has a lot more to do with the tidy repetitions of genre than it does with the real devils Baldwin is talking about. More movies have been made, and (as he would be disappointed, but not surprised to learn) the mindless banality of the evil has only, if anything, increased. At the end of The Exorcist, the demon-racked little girl murderess kisses the Holy Father, and she remembers nothing she is departing with her mother, who will, presumably, soon make another movie.Ä«aldwin was right. The Americans should certainly know more about evil than that if they pretend otherwise, they are lying, and any black man, and not only blacks - many, many others, including white children - can call them on this lie he who has been treated as the devil recognizes the devil when they meet. The mindless and hysterical banality of the evil presented in The Exorcist is the most terrifying thing about the film.
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