“The trailer was visually stunning, but the message is evil.”
I was going to see that until I heard that in the movie each person has their own “animal demon.” Most anti-Christ films aren’t as open in their messages. This was an easy “avoid at all costs.”
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It saved many of us the price of a couple of tickets, which is nothing to sneeze at these days.
The movie stunk for a variety of reasons...but the daemon concept is interesting.
In Pullman's alternate universe, human souls are not internal but represented externally by animal forms that match the characters of their owners. When the human dies, the daemon dies too.
An interesting concept...how easy it would be to know your fellow man. For example, you could see PIAPS Hillary campaigning with her pig daemon standing next to her, etc.
1) A lady at work says that the official website has a section for kids where you can create your own "daemon" and name it. Anyone else's hackels go straight up on that?
2) In the book series, one of the motivations for the Evil Church Guys is allegedly performing a painful "operation" that strips the daemon away from the child, analagous to "the organized church" stealing away the Uberman nature of humans and "limiting" them into behaving; the author thinks that "religon" (Christianity and the Church) is a sham designed to cripple people from becoming exceptional. (Isn't that the arguement Satan made?)
3) Several news articles that have been posted state that the next two books in the series are much more sexual between two barely adolescent main characters. Imagine that, the athiest author thinks "free love" is superior to the moral restraints that have created Western culture and the climb to civilization!