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The Ending (whoa!)

posted 14 years ago by lurm
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I sat slack-jawed watching the last 15 minutes of this when I first came across it on Sundance. Half amusing and half terrifying. Having subsequently watched the entire thing, I can say that it never quite reaches the same heights of incredulity as the ending, but it comes awful close. And it makes you repeatedly demand an answer to how people can be so blinded by someone who promises the absurd. To sit in a cold church (everyone is in coats - I assume they were so cash-strapped that heat was expendable) and buy into the obviously ridiculous "visions" he receives from God is a level of either faith or gullibility I can't fathom.

Perhaps the strangest thing about it is that Gazowsky doesn't seem like a charlatan fueled by ego or greed - he seems to be as bewildered by the situation as anyone.

[–] mamie59 14 years ago

i think you summed it up pretty much as i did.i kept thinking, oh turn this crap, but found myself amazed at the parishioners beliefs in this man, church and production. "it's up to the city oif san francisco to believe" or some spat like that. i'm amazed.

mamie

[–] gtr1017 14 years ago

perhaps like Mohammed he had a false vision or he misinterpreted the vision.