The Exorcist Review

The Exorcist is a demonic thriller that transformed the anti-supernatural presupposition from doubter to believer.
Chronicling the possession of a young girl named Reagen, The Exorcist shines light on what is hidden in the Catholic and Protestant Closet-- the supernatural. Since the introduction of psychiatric diseases and somatic disorders, the supernatural has been explained away through personality defects. However, The Exorcist revives the inkling of the supernatural by sharing a story of elements unexplainable to the psychological realm but rather the spiritual. In a despiritualized culture, The Exorcist made a box office splash by presenting ideas that are absent outside the third world. The Exorcist captures the curiosity of culture by utilizing a storyline unfamiliar to the common citizen.

As i finished this movie, i wondered why a world detached from the supernatural world watched The Exorcist, a movie about the very thing culture has tried to corrupt. And then it struck me, the world loves the demonic because it explains circumstances. If evil exists, then actions are excused. If the demonic is real, then destruction is justified. We want the excuse without the consequences. We want the bad without the good. And so, we watch The Exorcist and think of its possibility but hear about the church and think of its absurdity. The Exorcist ironically helps us sleep at night when the reflection of the day's actions awaken us. It seems that culture is so concerned with qualifying its content that it misses its reality, that if the supernatural exists, then the church exists.