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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl
Jenn's BF made the point about how it wasn't actually "God" that came after him; it was his own guilt. I actually LIKE that a lot better, but I didn't see it; I didn't see how it was "actually" his guilt driving him to kill himself vs. him getting struck down by spirits...
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I'm with Jen's boyfriend on this; guilt. Remember this is a horror film and, genre-wise, little else. Jose Mojica Marins is
thoroughly a horror filmmaker, and I've always felt that the end of
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul has more to do with guilt and a kind of simple existentialism, but seen through the lens of a strictly-horror filmmaker. Coffin Joe's worldviews are seemingly absolute. It appears they cannot be shaken, until his own doubts and guilt come back to literally haunt him; the doubts and guilt abstracted and placed in a horror context. Sure it's depicted as something supernatural, but that doesn't mean it has to be spiritual. I feel Marins meant it more as a warning against how hatred, anger, selfishness, materialism (i.e. "Coffin Joe" behavior) can ultimately destroy a person- a very human and worldly warning, not a Christian one.
How did you like the movie, Chrono?