Review of The Devils (1971) by Jluis_001 — 05 Apr 2021
The scope and ambition are of a spectacular level, I have no complaints about it.
The ending with Gemma Jones walking on the ruins of the city is one of the best I've seen because of how powerful it feels.
However, my problem lies in how it's necessary to focus on the ideology of the time of its release in order to understand why it was such a provocative story.
Because The Devils is a very captivating film, but it's also one that forces that element too much, almost forcing itself to feel transgressive just because the sake of it. And as necessary as it was in its time to break those restrictions, today I cannot ignore that this story has a compulsion to make an impact, to shock rather than to disclose something more significant.
I recommend it because technically it fascinated me.
Its imperfect and somewhat flawed writing is inconvenient, but I can be flexible.
This review of The Devils (1971) was written by Jluis_001 on 05 April 2021.
The Devils has generally received positive reviews.
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