Okay, but something that really stuck with me about the film is how Grace is suffocated between her Father, her Son and her Church (oh, the not-so-holy trinity).
In an environment created by men and, more importantly, by men who are privileged (let's not forget that Jud and his mentor, who I forgot the name of, are a former homeless person and a black man, both types of people ostracized by society, and both Prentice —the one who started all that— was a rich man), grace cannot be offered and more importantly, it cannot be received.
What the institutions built by white and rich men have to offer is anger and the appearance of power, but never true consolation, or forgiveness, or love. Or Grace.
The whole imagery about Eve's Apple, with Prentice quite literally eating it so to guarantee that grace could never be freed from her sins —or perceived sins—, and that, in a bigger way, no woman could escape the Original Sins. More than that, It being literally placed in the place of Jesus' heart at the end of it, in the church Jud is building, to symbolize that not only grace is in the heart of the Christian faith but also that is through the freedom of women —since the gem was Grace's way out of her prison— that they should begin this church having in mind women's freedom and contributions to the faith, is truly an amazing critic.
Also, Paul's travel to Damascus being the iteration for Martha's confession and her understanding that she had been persecuting the embodiments of Christ just like Paul was doing before God blinded him? Amazing, beautifully done. Chef's kiss, really.
I'm an atheist myself but I feel like the film does really well to respect everyone's beliefs because they don't critic faith, they critic religion, and they do so beautifully.
