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  "description": "What’s the one true religion? I suppose it may well be cruelty and the drive to inflict pain and your beliefs on others. I’m loving late career Hugh Grant — the roles he’s been cast in lately feel riskier and more challenging than his earlier career slate of predictable rom coms. The man manages to wax poetic on Monopoly, faith and religion while descending slowly into madness and — you guessed it — cruelty. Thatcher and East’s Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton are — at first — naive and, ultimately, brave, resilient and charismatic counters. They stand firm in their faith, appearing to waiver only to placate and manipulate Reed, before slowly gaining ground and (to a degree) surviving his test. But was any of this real? Were they merely butterflies dreaming of bring human? Is that impulse towards cruelty so deeply ingrained that it proves overriding even in a dream? Quite the film for a time in which faith and organized religion is proving to be a vehicle for the willful infliction of pain on others.",
  "path": "/watching/movies/heretic-2024",
  "publishedAt": "2024-12-31T02:41:41Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:sttgf52vkk46f6yuknvqxvgh/site.standard.publication/self",
  "tags": [
    "thriller",
    "horror"
  ],
  "title": "Heretic"
}