Originally Posted by Sculpt
I understand what you're saying. Not gonna say that's stupid. It'll tick me off, and to some degree ruin a film, if the film misrepresents, and otherwise unfairly bashes, a philosophy/religion/belief-system, a group or an individual. It's really hard to get past that.
I guess that's a little different from what you're saying in the sense it's the misrepresentation that burns me... I don't mind if film is genuinely presenting a point of view, best foot forward with integrity, of something I currently disagree with. Fiction or otherwise. Basically I'm intrigued as a social scientist to learn the point of view (or otherwise ride it as a drama setting). For me personally, that surely progressed with age, but then I always sought out the unknown, the different than my upbringing's view, the other world religions/philosophies... that eventually helped add to and sharpen what I knew and believed. Otherwise what I believe and know is more disconnected and insular.
Like let's say, hypothetically, I thought that ultimately, big picture-wise Scientology was bad for people and society, and/or false at it's core beliefs (as I currently understood it)… If I saw a film that accurately presented Scientology and was 'doing good' with it, it wouldn't immediately turn me off the film. Probably goes back to my core belief in the Free Market Place of Ideas -- let anything reveal itself, step into the light, and people can test it (as in discern it) for themselves, and with help they seek from others.
With The Conjuring, it's not misrepresenting/bashing atheism, or any other belief system, in any way. It's not far off from just using a current Western paradigm as a plot setting... a stone's throw from someone using a cross to wardoff a vampire. Without changing your entire belief structure, maybe you can enjoy, or otherwise not be so annoyed, with a film where some characters express their judeochristian belief system? Just take it as an anthropologist would?
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