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Exorcism as metaphor

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Brett Alan Dewing
Aug 28, 2010
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In the current Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman discusses exorcism films and asks "what, if anything, are these movies trying to tell us?"  His answer is insightful and very fertile for discussion:

"It all depends on the era.  In Rosemary's Baby, the devil emerged out of a late-60s disarray, horning his way in between a lying husband and an innocent …

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