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Dystopian Christian horror. It isn't a horror film but the imagination of an evil downward spiral tearing a family apart that is trying their best to cling on to their own failing Christian sentiments, beliefs and faith as theirs absolutely nothing else left as they perceive themselves now as outcasts, due to a matter of some unexplained or largely unacknowledged principles while these beliefs are failing miserably, as the film does with it. Anything bad that is happening to them is irrationally identified as being evil based on belief and not on what's shown or explained within the context of the movie but by a lecture of Christian dogmatic belief throughout. That's ultimately the basis of this film, Christian culture dramatised as perceived of being this period, with ideas of witchcraft thrown in to explain and justify their own misery, they effectively create the cause for cursing themselves and being at war with themselves. While using the oldest daughter as a vehicle to dump all their hate and anger and then have the audacity and ignorance to call her evil and not see this as being the very evil they have created by their own actions. This is really the only thing I had taken away from the movie but it will undoubtedly be lost and of little interest to many people as it's not the movie we came to see, nor did we expect a philosophical tale of understanding and if we did, we'd want at least a good movie with it to get this point across. I'd seriously have to call into question the legitimacy of the high ratings of this movie. I watched it wanted to like it and wanting so much for something to just happen but it just doesn't, this movie should come massively under the category of misadvertised and be enough to disappoint the audience on that basis alone. It's like walking into an action movie that turns out to be a musical. It's just a boring bleak film. It's acted well but it's also a terrible story or the lack of a story that makes this so bad that makes you want to slit your wrists, especially if you've clung on for dear life hoping that at some point a story will come together but it never does. It's a shambles of a movie and has a very limited audience at best which is probably why it had been missold originally to target a wider audience it doesn't deserve. You'd only watch this movie to see just how bad it actually is and probably out of disbelief that so many people must have taken tranquillisers or a knock to their head before watching and reviewing this or are cunningly trying to entice you to go through the same agony they've just experienced, as misery loves company and they want you to suffer it if they had to do so. Just don't watch it if you're expecting a horror, mystery or anything intriguing of the supernatural, occult or want a suspenseful experience of any kind other than a period drama that exists alongside music that should accompany a horror movie. If you're silly enough to believe the main purpose of this movie will be focusing on a witch or witchcraft don't watch this movie you'll be massively disappointed and letdown.

Tried, tired and tested failed narrative on "The War on Drugs" movie. The failure to see the thing you're setting out to "have a war on" as being the thing that makes it worse, while you're apparent goal is prevention...

The biggest problem being, your mentality that presented a problem that justified a war is one of delusion. That problem won't go away until you see and accept that delusion for what it truly is and so you'll keep on perpetuating that problem until you do, as it's one if your creation by demanding society needs to be edited as though society can't make their minds up themselves but needs a Big Brother to whip them into submission!

It's one which has it's epicentre, upon control. That control is to target society in a mechanism to supply and police, creating a perpetual game of cat and mouse, where as a problem you're fuling by your war, you can justify the advancement of control. Just like Terrorism...

When you're behind this system, such a chase is a very desirable one. So you inflict it and keep a society docile to this reality. To keep a society bamboozled by this game, is equally desirable. By this method, they will either conform or be policed! They're either agaisnt the Terrorism or a Terrorist Sympathiser. Everything becomes polarised by a reality we are trying to beat into submission as though those behind this system know better and can present their argument within the makeup of many movies as they do.

George Orwell would be proud of this inverted concept we can see depicted via this movie. This is done well, maybe this movie can help present this. It all depends on the perception of those watching the movie as it isn't forced this wa, it takes an analytical view on what the movie is actually presenting. It's this which may leave some inevitably numb as though some lack of direction or concept was lost on the movie, while it inevitably does point within a certain direction it desires you to believe without giving you any clarity or pushing really hard on what that direction is without analysis. It uses a light touch to push that same old narrative as though you'll collectively perceive that desired perception via the prior political conditioning of society and so it needs no heavy introduction.

While leaving the idea that the good guys won? Or is it actually the Devil himself? Whom keeps up the supply to justify the policing?

It's within this lose candid method the movie is put together some may find lacking of narrative. As the movie is edited together in a way to present a string of events without much deep underlying context within some respect, where the point of the movie, beginning to end maybe lost upon them due to the movie not delivering because it demands them to think for themselves, while also being a morality tale that those whom watch the movie may not necessarily agree with. They may not see the Duality of the characters. There's not much development of many characters, this is very weak and so you can't really feel them from their point of view.

This being why you could feel more negatively towards this movie. You can't feel an individual side you're compelled to support and so the outcome may leave some feeling uncomfortable or nonplussed, but it also can leave one believing the War on Drugs is a good one, we just need to do more if they accept the movie at face value and where it inevitably takes us. It's the pushing of this failed narrative as though it's one which is justified, which makes the movie for me disappointing.

It really doesn't test the acting of all those involved whom have almost certainly been in better movies than this. It's almost as if many of the actors took part within this film under a contractual obligation to be within another movie they would much rather be apart of, while going along with this movie to continue the push upon this same old political narrative, that we may as well be hearing the echo chamber of "build that wall" as the movie ended, while we didn't actually hear them. It's this theme throughout the movie that we can feel a desire to be swayed in our thinking without actually hearing that message, its desired that we contrive to think and feel a certain way that I suspect many people just don't want to buy into nor accept anymore.

It would be far less compelling to create a movie about the mass of "Cocaine In America" as delivered by the "CIA" and not the cut outs within the drugs trade as it may otherwise appear, much as cut outs within the Terrorist trade. That would give the game away. It would mean they couldn't get away with doing what undoubtedly is done by the use of both the War on Drugs or Terrorism and this movie had a chance to deliver this to an audience but failed to deliver by the way it was presented, leaving blanks for speculation where some may not speculate at all but just think and feel the movie stinks...

So we have this respinning to push - ironically as this ideology is more dangerous than any drug - the same old narrative of the failed War on Drugs used to target, threaten and police society as much as a War on Terrorism. The Intelligence Apparatus would love to combine the two I'm sure. It fell short of successful delivering the what it otherwise actually may have originally set out to deliver. It's as though it may have been designed to deliver this message, but some influential people forced the hand of some one to edit out parts of the movie they don't want in it. While readjusting the movie back around an acceptable political narrative other than the original message that may have otherwise been desired by the creation of this movie...

It leaves a stale taste and that maybe designed to be directed towards fuling the continuation of this War on Drugs or it maybe this way for me because I believe the Devil has pulled the wool over the eyes of many and remained Triumphant at the end of the movie...

It's worth a watch for sure but it won't be something I'd rush to watch again unless it receives an extended edition, with parts that had previously been cut out from this movie reintroduced that hasn't been edited via the censorship office - Ministry of Truth - as acceptable via dictionaries dictated via the principles of Newspeak.

The movie jumps around far too much without thread or tandem. It maybe one of those movies you only truly understand and fully comprehend after watching it many times, in tandem with what's to follow. Meaning, this is a cash cow filler, riding the back of the previous movie and without the next movie, I see no real need nor desire to watch this movie again.

It's very nostalgic and romantic with period details especially the fashion where not a piece of clothing is out of place and rarely is it untidy.

It's so far not out of place and overly too tidy, as to appear a certain artistic merit, eye and purpose that is devoid of any realism even if it is artistic and appealing to the eye and nostalgia. It does to the eye what the movie does to the rewriting of history and political driven storyline into a game of two half's.

It's "just a movie" and all that but what really lets it down is this need to make the movie about some other context other than that which belongs within the world of magic.

It's attempts to breach paths of the normal/muggle/No-maj "No Magic world" with that of this other magic world, where their main problems are too normal, political and that of a human nature devoid of magic. It's in a sense, these issues the magic world have that they shouldn't and wouldn't have these normal problems, if they're to be magical at all.

Yet, here we are watching a magical spin on very normal problems. This lets it down. (Although, indeed if this was done correctly is also what could have made it a masterpiece. Yet this is far from such in my opinion.)

Also the mentality of this us versus them, their is no fence for anyone and you just pick a side and stick to it a very George Bush mentality. (If you think George Bush is magical then you will of course have no issue with this.)

The movie overall has far to much Politics to be enjoyable for many.

It has too many institutions, just like in our real world "devoid of magic" due to politics, desiring the enslavement of it's peoples into the worship and surrendering of its peoples and our individual authority, our blind obedience, by a people whom claim to act within our interests but seldom do. Just like in our real world they're self serving institutions whom demand our authority or they'll tie our hands just as happened to Dumbledoors.

While this is a nice touch, what isn't, is that this should be looked upon as ok. As though this is acceptable behaviour from someone other than a tyrant, control freak or a Big Brother Orwellian State.

As though "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about". This mentalities justified and just stood back and accepted within this movie, when they're some of the most dangerous and acts of tyrants. It's the like of what the true dark side would be behind, not the actions of "Good Guys" whom have made themselves the protectors of those whom have been forced to surrender such institutions their authority, like it or not... That's tyranny and it of course remains unexplored and justified?

Yet, we're to accept the romantic notion that everything will be alright in the end as good will triumph, in an old Good Versus Evil Game which must be taken seriously as the game itself is imposed to be serious and for you to accept like it or not. This is the game of tyrants whichever side or role you choose to take on. It always justified the unthinkable for a cause which believes itself to be righteous while they're played off side against side, while the true tyrants sit back and watch the world being torn into two halves so they can eventually intervene, divide and conquer.

As you can see, many people whom would even disagree with my analysis here, there's far too much political spin within this movie that just shouldn't be here and their should be no need whatsoever for it to be here. We shouldn't have to think in such a manner to enjoy this movie or base our opinions. It shouldn't be about "if you don't do politics, you don't really do anything". That's propaganda.

The only reason it is, is so us normal people watching it will pick our very own and "real" sides and is the artificial grooming of a largely younger audience, into the worship of some form or another authority whom claims to work within their interests. All too often, such being the use of tyrants to usurp the power of an indoctrinated masses. Via the likes of such a concept within this movie..

It's not a choice nor a question. It's simply a fact we have to surrender our power too institutions whom wouldn't have any authority if we didn't surrender that power to them.

It's a strange double bind we all should be informed about via the play of such movies and it shouldn't be ignored if it's not driven for the sake of blind acceptance of such political notions of corruption of the hearts and minds of the masses.

Such isn't questioned in this movie and overall, I'm sure it's predominately an argument over something which shouldn't be here in the first instance and the only reason it appears to be is to polarise issues as only politics can do and it's this which makes such a world lacking of magic, as they haven't banished politics to the basement of Hell so no such wars via polarisation could ever be possible.

Instead, the movie polarises? Do you see my point?

If you can see past this or such propaganda has been lost upon you, as you've just accepted this movie as a movie, what you have left is a movie which jumps around from here and there to give the illusion of magic - Ironic or not so much?

As magic and wonder certainly isn't the centrepiece of this movie but rather politics under a cloak of darkness, as being magic when it couldn't be any further away from wonder and magic, while it's this all too traditional polarisation. You could be confused as though this is dark magic by the conductors of politics. It's not magic at all but the banishment of any concept of magic or spiritual finesse.

I'm sure many people would have picked up on this subconsciously if not consciously that something is very different in this respect to that of the previous movie. At least for the most part...

This shows within the context of the movie itself by it being so clumsy and lacking of focus upon an otherwise incomprehensible script. If it would have lost the politics and focused upon the magic I'm sure many of us would have been happier as the reason many people would indulge in such a movie, is as a form of escapism from such mundane day to day political BS.

Instead, people who make this movie certainly must know this fact and have reframed to many of us a political concept of divide, rule and conquer by this repackaging. It's purely and the greatest reason I don't like or enjoy the experience of watching this movie and find it very deceptive and a let down of what could have otherwise been an enjoyable experience, especially for the eyes. Yet a direction within script is lost without the politics I've mentioned as the politics is what the script is centred around entirely.

This movie is politics and not magic.

Rather it is the Inversion of magic, it's an ideology devoid of any concept of magic, seeking to use a magic driven storyline for political ends, the banishment of any real magic for that of a political universe. If you don't mind this deception or see it and can agree with the message you may otherwise enjoy this movie anyway. I sadly can not.