venerdì 20 novembre 2015

Second name - 2002

This was a pure waste of time. There was nothing else on tv, so I watched this. Note for future me: do not watch this nonsense again!
There was an original idea, or at least it looked so to me but probably isn't: people thinking Abraham really killed his son, because the angel did not stop him, on the contrary he urged Abraham to do it. Followers of this cult, the Abrahamites, think they must kill their first born as a tribute to God. Original maybe, I don't know, but still awful and sick. Anyway, this is not the movie's problem.
Daniella (Erica Prior)'s father commits suicide. Her mother is in a mental hospital, has been for years, never speaking or reacting in any way. Now, out of the blue she calls her "Josephine". A priest asks her to meet him, and tells her the story of the Abrahamites. A man, Harris, comes to tell her that he's her real father, that his drunk wife sold their baby for money. The day of her birthday Daniella receives flowers and a videotape sent by her father (it's not specified how he did it, but this things happen a lot in movies). In the tape he confesses to be one of the Abrahamites; he had to kill his first born, so he bought a child and killed her instead, and let the other Abrahamites believe Daniella was his second. Somehow they discovered the truth and demanded that he should kill Daniella, his real first born, but he wouldn't; instead he killed himself to save her. Now she thinks of her pregnant friend, about to have her first child. She rushes to them, alone, telling the old man she knows everything. At that point he has no more reserves and says she has been sterilized because she's an insult to God. You know, we should have another name for cases like this. The God I believe in is good, and would not like tortures and killings. Sick people should stop using God as an easy scapegoat for their evil actions. Anyway, she tells him she has proof (*rolling eyes* very smart, after all a child murderer would never hurt her, would he?) then she ignores his threat of misterious consequences if she goes on, and she runs upstairs to the baby's room to find the father coming out of the room already. She's late and the baby's already dead. She cries and holds the baby. Another wrong move. Everybody comes in and her friend enters the room to find her holding her dead baby and says : you killed my son. Their doctor friend injects her with something. Next scene is the baby's authopsy where they say she killed her friend's baby because she was jealous, because she could not have children. Next scene she's in the mental hospital, catatonic like her mother was, and we see Harris coming to visit her, sure she's his daughter, unaware of everything that really happened, and he takes care of her, while she doesn't react at all. The end. Just like that. Yep.
A bad movie. The actors that played the priest and the evil man Hastings were not bad, but the movie was terrible anyway.

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