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22nd March 2011, 06:21 AM
So my wife and I took the kids to see the new "Little Red Ridinghood", which is made by the same bunch that did the twilight series, so it caters to younger teenage girls and emo boys, as well as young children as well.
Other than the obvious departures from the original story line, there were some subtle (and not so subtle) attacks on Christianity and the family unit which I would like to point out.
The first thing they did was establish that the people of the village were Catholic Christians. This was established very early in the film, when the wolf came into the village and killed one of the humans. (The sister of the main Character)
The camera showed a woman standing over the corpse, and she blessed herself with the sign of the cross.
(Drawing a cross over the body, starting at the forehead, to the stomach, then across the shoulders from left to right, for those who are not familiar)
So after the established that the village was Christian, the men of the villiage decided to go out and hunt down the wolf. They had made a deal with the wolf, where they would leave out livestock on full moons, and the wolf wouldn't hurt anyone. Now that the wolf broke the deal, they wanted to go kill it. The local priest has summoned a warrior priest to come to the villiage to kill the wolf, and he tries to talk them into waiting, but they wanted revenge.
So off they go into a cave, and kill a wolf. One of them dies in the process. (I can't remember the name of the Character that died, but the charactter plays a role in the destabilization of the family unit later in the movie)
Now these Christians come home to celebrate the slaughter of the wolf, and they think they are free of the curse of the wolf.
But the warrior priest has arrived with an entourage of soldiers that basically place the village under martial law. The troops are constantly pointing their weapons at the villagers (which IMO is an obvious attempt at making it seem normal for soldiers to point weapons at civilians who rely on the soldiers for help).
Another thing I noticed was the way they made every person in the village be suspicious of every other person in the village: The Warrior priest told them a story about how he was hunting a werewolf for years, and was always close, but could never get it. One night he got a lucky hit, and chopped off one of the wolfs paws. He took the paw and wrapped it, and then returned home.
Upon waking up the next morning, he disovered his wife, dead, bled out. He unwrapped the wolfs paw, and lo: it was his wifes hand. Werewolves turn back to human form when they are killed, and so it was his wife all along.
Therefore, if he could love her and bed with her all these years (a priest, remember) and never suspect that she was a werewolf, none of the stupid villagers would have a chance at figuring out who the real wolf was, right?
This caused massive division in the once tight-knit community, everyong eyeing each other, etc.
Back to the celebration of the slaughtered wolf. The wife of the man who died is obviously sad that she lost her husband to the wolf in the cave. So the men make a toast to his memory, and insist that they have killed the correct wolf.
So they celebrate.
The entire village gets completely hammered and dances around in wanton abandon. There is a woman that is dressed up as a tree, with a shocking headpiece and dress that is an obvious tribute to the pagan/celtic goddess Druanitia. She stands almost perfectly still, just moving slightly as fire burns around her and drunkards dance and sing and scream. It's an extremely pagan scene all around. Very haunting. My wife and I were both like "wtf?" when this scene played out. I reminded my Children that Christians don't celebrate like that.
Another attack on Christianity (specifically Catholic Christianity) was how the (once married) priest conducted himself on his crusade to rid the village of the werewolf. Torturing people, roughing up innocents, etc. This guy is a bastard through the whole movie, painting all priests with a murderous paintbrush.
Another thing throughout the movie is that Ridinghood is torn. She is in love with a woodcutter, but in an arranged marriage with a Blacksmith. She doesn't want anything to do with the smithy, but her mother told her to stick it out. Here is how the attack on moral family fabric unfolds:
- The Mother of Riding hood arrranged the marriage with the Blacksmith for her
- Ridinghood has a sister who loves the Blacksmith
- Ridinghoods sister who loves the smith gets killed by the wolf at the start.
- Later, as ridinghood confesses her love for the woodcutter, to her mother, she asks her mother why she wouldn't have arranged for the sister to marry the blacksmith, because it would serve the same political purposes.
- Ridinghoods mother alludes to ridinghoods unequalled beauty as the reason why, but ridinghood presses her for the truth.
- The mother confesses that Ridinghoods sister is actually a half-sister because she committed adultery with the Blacksmiths father, so therefore the smith and ridinghoods sister are related and cannot get married, so it must be ridinghood who marries the smith.
- Ridinghood keeps this secret from her father
So then, I will get the rest over with here. The movie progresses, the wolf returns and kills some more villagers, but when it has a chance to kill ridinghood, instead it speaks to her. It tells her that it knows who she is, and that it loves her, and that it wants her to leave the villiage with her. Because it is a "Bloodmoon" for 3 nights, anyone who is bitten and survives will automatically become a werewolf, so the wolf tries to talk her into letting it bite her.
( The priest already had to kill one of his servant warriors because he was bitten. They were all black, btw. This upset another warrior soldier because they were brothers, but it had to be done.)
She declines the offer.
The priest finds out that she could understand the wolf and wants to kill her for being a witch. Then they try to sacrifice her, using her as a lure to bring in the wolf. The Smith and Woodcutter and ridinghoods Father team up to save her. The wolf comes back while the three are exacting their plans to save her from the shackles that she is chained with.
The wolf wounds the bastard priest, biting right through his arm. The arm falls on the ground. The wolf kills a couple more people, and scratches the face of Ridinghoods mother. The people hide in the church. The wolf goes away.
The black warrior servant gets to kill the white bastard priest, because he was bitten on a bloodmoon. (Black on white hate)
Cut to the end, Ridinghood goes to her grandmothers house and this is where the rest is unveiled.
- Her Father is the werewolf, and was all along.
- He wanted to turn his Wife and Daughters on the Bloodmoon and take them all away with him
- When he approached his youngest daughter, she couldn't understand him, and he knew she was not his
- He lost his temper and killed her
- This made them go hunt the wolf, and in the caves he killed the man who cuckolded his wife and fathered the daughter he killed that I mentioned earlier (The Blacksmiths Father)
- The wolf also scratched his wifes face because she cheated on him.
- Ridinghood and to woodcutter turn on her Father and kill him.
- She uses the severed hand of the priest to kill her father the werewolf, because it has silver fingernails.
- Woodcutter is bitten during the battle, and will now be a werewolf forever, but it's OK because Ridinghood loves him. (Pfft)
- They cut the Fathers body open, fill it with rocks, sew it shut and sink it in a lake
- Woodcutter paddles away, promising to return when he knows he has his new animal instincts "under control"
- End scene shows her and her new werewolf in the woods, all happy. The only thing that was missing was a beastiality scene.
Anyways, I might think of more later on. I wasn;t planning on writing this much either. I just wanted to shed some light on the anti-Christian and anti-Family programming going on in this film, but in order for it to make sense, I thought I better type out some of the plot line.
EDITed for typos and to add a bit of clarity here and there.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ROln4ISlwKo/S-Gkk0XUODI/AAAAAAAAEHQ/5LzaSZYeu64/s1600/Druantia.jpg
Other than the obvious departures from the original story line, there were some subtle (and not so subtle) attacks on Christianity and the family unit which I would like to point out.
The first thing they did was establish that the people of the village were Catholic Christians. This was established very early in the film, when the wolf came into the village and killed one of the humans. (The sister of the main Character)
The camera showed a woman standing over the corpse, and she blessed herself with the sign of the cross.
(Drawing a cross over the body, starting at the forehead, to the stomach, then across the shoulders from left to right, for those who are not familiar)
So after the established that the village was Christian, the men of the villiage decided to go out and hunt down the wolf. They had made a deal with the wolf, where they would leave out livestock on full moons, and the wolf wouldn't hurt anyone. Now that the wolf broke the deal, they wanted to go kill it. The local priest has summoned a warrior priest to come to the villiage to kill the wolf, and he tries to talk them into waiting, but they wanted revenge.
So off they go into a cave, and kill a wolf. One of them dies in the process. (I can't remember the name of the Character that died, but the charactter plays a role in the destabilization of the family unit later in the movie)
Now these Christians come home to celebrate the slaughter of the wolf, and they think they are free of the curse of the wolf.
But the warrior priest has arrived with an entourage of soldiers that basically place the village under martial law. The troops are constantly pointing their weapons at the villagers (which IMO is an obvious attempt at making it seem normal for soldiers to point weapons at civilians who rely on the soldiers for help).
Another thing I noticed was the way they made every person in the village be suspicious of every other person in the village: The Warrior priest told them a story about how he was hunting a werewolf for years, and was always close, but could never get it. One night he got a lucky hit, and chopped off one of the wolfs paws. He took the paw and wrapped it, and then returned home.
Upon waking up the next morning, he disovered his wife, dead, bled out. He unwrapped the wolfs paw, and lo: it was his wifes hand. Werewolves turn back to human form when they are killed, and so it was his wife all along.
Therefore, if he could love her and bed with her all these years (a priest, remember) and never suspect that she was a werewolf, none of the stupid villagers would have a chance at figuring out who the real wolf was, right?
This caused massive division in the once tight-knit community, everyong eyeing each other, etc.
Back to the celebration of the slaughtered wolf. The wife of the man who died is obviously sad that she lost her husband to the wolf in the cave. So the men make a toast to his memory, and insist that they have killed the correct wolf.
So they celebrate.
The entire village gets completely hammered and dances around in wanton abandon. There is a woman that is dressed up as a tree, with a shocking headpiece and dress that is an obvious tribute to the pagan/celtic goddess Druanitia. She stands almost perfectly still, just moving slightly as fire burns around her and drunkards dance and sing and scream. It's an extremely pagan scene all around. Very haunting. My wife and I were both like "wtf?" when this scene played out. I reminded my Children that Christians don't celebrate like that.
Another attack on Christianity (specifically Catholic Christianity) was how the (once married) priest conducted himself on his crusade to rid the village of the werewolf. Torturing people, roughing up innocents, etc. This guy is a bastard through the whole movie, painting all priests with a murderous paintbrush.
Another thing throughout the movie is that Ridinghood is torn. She is in love with a woodcutter, but in an arranged marriage with a Blacksmith. She doesn't want anything to do with the smithy, but her mother told her to stick it out. Here is how the attack on moral family fabric unfolds:
- The Mother of Riding hood arrranged the marriage with the Blacksmith for her
- Ridinghood has a sister who loves the Blacksmith
- Ridinghoods sister who loves the smith gets killed by the wolf at the start.
- Later, as ridinghood confesses her love for the woodcutter, to her mother, she asks her mother why she wouldn't have arranged for the sister to marry the blacksmith, because it would serve the same political purposes.
- Ridinghoods mother alludes to ridinghoods unequalled beauty as the reason why, but ridinghood presses her for the truth.
- The mother confesses that Ridinghoods sister is actually a half-sister because she committed adultery with the Blacksmiths father, so therefore the smith and ridinghoods sister are related and cannot get married, so it must be ridinghood who marries the smith.
- Ridinghood keeps this secret from her father
So then, I will get the rest over with here. The movie progresses, the wolf returns and kills some more villagers, but when it has a chance to kill ridinghood, instead it speaks to her. It tells her that it knows who she is, and that it loves her, and that it wants her to leave the villiage with her. Because it is a "Bloodmoon" for 3 nights, anyone who is bitten and survives will automatically become a werewolf, so the wolf tries to talk her into letting it bite her.
( The priest already had to kill one of his servant warriors because he was bitten. They were all black, btw. This upset another warrior soldier because they were brothers, but it had to be done.)
She declines the offer.
The priest finds out that she could understand the wolf and wants to kill her for being a witch. Then they try to sacrifice her, using her as a lure to bring in the wolf. The Smith and Woodcutter and ridinghoods Father team up to save her. The wolf comes back while the three are exacting their plans to save her from the shackles that she is chained with.
The wolf wounds the bastard priest, biting right through his arm. The arm falls on the ground. The wolf kills a couple more people, and scratches the face of Ridinghoods mother. The people hide in the church. The wolf goes away.
The black warrior servant gets to kill the white bastard priest, because he was bitten on a bloodmoon. (Black on white hate)
Cut to the end, Ridinghood goes to her grandmothers house and this is where the rest is unveiled.
- Her Father is the werewolf, and was all along.
- He wanted to turn his Wife and Daughters on the Bloodmoon and take them all away with him
- When he approached his youngest daughter, she couldn't understand him, and he knew she was not his
- He lost his temper and killed her
- This made them go hunt the wolf, and in the caves he killed the man who cuckolded his wife and fathered the daughter he killed that I mentioned earlier (The Blacksmiths Father)
- The wolf also scratched his wifes face because she cheated on him.
- Ridinghood and to woodcutter turn on her Father and kill him.
- She uses the severed hand of the priest to kill her father the werewolf, because it has silver fingernails.
- Woodcutter is bitten during the battle, and will now be a werewolf forever, but it's OK because Ridinghood loves him. (Pfft)
- They cut the Fathers body open, fill it with rocks, sew it shut and sink it in a lake
- Woodcutter paddles away, promising to return when he knows he has his new animal instincts "under control"
- End scene shows her and her new werewolf in the woods, all happy. The only thing that was missing was a beastiality scene.
Anyways, I might think of more later on. I wasn;t planning on writing this much either. I just wanted to shed some light on the anti-Christian and anti-Family programming going on in this film, but in order for it to make sense, I thought I better type out some of the plot line.
EDITed for typos and to add a bit of clarity here and there.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ROln4ISlwKo/S-Gkk0XUODI/AAAAAAAAEHQ/5LzaSZYeu64/s1600/Druantia.jpg