Jesus died on the cross to pay for that sin because He loves us.
If you're new to my blog, this is what I believe. You're more than welcome here, regardless of what you believe, but I want you to know what kind of blog you're on. I talk about fandom stuff, and other random stuff, but this is the core of who I am, so I post a lot about that.
So, thanks to a good health day, I was able to see the Backrooms movie! And while my sibling took away a more anti-AI message from it, I ended up thinking a lot more on the themes of misogyny and the psychology behind it, so I'm putting my thoughts here
Spoilers for the movie below the cut!
So a lot of this is copy+pasted from messages I sent on discord a few minutes ago bc I don't want to retype it all, but:
I really liked the portrayal of a man blaming everyone else for his failures, while the movie reiterates the distortion of facts and memories that takes place within an individual. His truth is so because he remembers it that way, distorted in the way he, likely subconsciously, had chosen. Also, the way he sees himself as entitled to everything, from his wife to an imagined future to the backrooms itself ("this is my house"), as well as its inhabitants, the last one for his own literal consumption. "The best part is... you can eat them," shocked the theater I was in, but I think it fits his character perfectly. To him, the people in the backroom are lesser than him, and he's perfectly justified in tearing chunks out of them with his bare hands to eat. It's his house, and his domain, his wife
And at the end he was so confident in his dominion over the Backrooms that he was trying to reason with the monster constructed from his own ego (that his wife ran screaming from, worth noting), and in the end, it was that that was his downfall. He was torn apart by the manifestation of his own persona he'd constructed
That's not to mention that the reason he didn't change wasn't that he was incapable of change, just that he never wanted to in the first place. He paid lip service to the idea, even going to therapy, but he was so resistant to the idea of actually changing the whole time. The backrooms didn't change him, either. Not at his core. They just enabled him to get what he always wanted: consequence free irresponsibility, and an environment he was able to dominate
I think it did a really good job with the narrative of like, "this guy truly believes the warped version of the truth he tells himself, and believes himself to be the good guy regardless of what horrible things he does". In the end, Clark was his own bullshit's best customer, and it was for that reason he ended up dead
Seeing them posts about how Catholic hospitals should be abolished religion has no place in healthcare yadda yadda yadda just irks me bc it straight up isn't true???
Sorry but Christianity is the whole reason hospitals exist in the first place. Thank St Basil the Great. And all the Christian teachings about caring for the sick.