Season of the Witch

This morning, I went to AMC and saw Nicolas Cage’s latest movie Season of the Witch. After I got back home, I checked on-line and found that most movie critics were well, critical of the movie even though 68% of movie patrons who watched it liked it (according to rottentomatoes.com).

The Huffington Post review stated:

“Season of the Witch is genre garbage, served up with a straight face as though it means something. But all it means is that P.T. Barnum and H.L. Mencken remain inarguably correct in their assessment of the public’s gullibility and appetite.”

They talk about the movie not meaning something, but I think it depends on how you look at the world.

For me, I thought the movie was, at least, interesting and definitely exciting. It was really a classic GOOD vs EVIL movie, but I would guess that except for all things and people that are conservative, the Huffington Post wouldn’t recognize evil if it fell over it.

The story takes place in the 14th century and starts out with a sequence of various battles between the Crusaders and the infidels (for this read Muslims though they never call them that). Although they are fierce fighters, Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman are honorable men who desert when they are required to kill women and children.

In the course of their travels, they come upon a variety of diseased individuals and villages and are forced into service. They must transport a girl the Catholic cardinal has decided is a witch to a monastery where they can deal with her. I don’t want to give away too much of the story, but know that there are some pretty scary manifestations of a demon or demons.

A lot of people today are too smart to believe in demons or the devil, which is just the way Satan prefers it. For a good example of this and interesting insight into the mind of the devil, read C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters.

I’d love to know what you think of the movie if you get a chance to see it.

And speaking of evil, did you see that the latest statistics show FORTY-ONE PERCENT of pregnancies in NYC end in abortion. If that isn’t evil, I don’t know what is. And the real crime may go unnoticed: the highest rate of abortion is among blacks – Margaret Sanger would be so proud.

Until next time…