Silent Night | Ending Explained – Did Brian Godlock survive at the end of the movie?

Publicado el por Carlos Mario Castro

John Woo’s Silent Night ends with a big question about his main character, Contractor gone Gangslayer Brian Godlock, is he alive or is he dead? But, first question first, how did he end up in such situation? Well, let’s recall a little.

In the fictional Lone Star border city of Las Palomas, a shooting between gangs takes the life of little Taylor Godlock when he was getting ready to celebrate christmas with his father, Brian (Joel Kinnaman) and his mother Caya (Catalina Sandino Moreno). To add more to the revenge pot, when trying to reach his son’s killer, a gangster called Playa (Harold Torres), Brian is shot in his neck, unable to speak afterwards.

For one whole year, Brian prepares himself physically, learning how to use knives in close body struggles, learning how to use different kind of guns, automatic weapons and even how to render his car almost bulletproof. The rest of the movie is Brian facing the gang that killed his son, until he finally is face to face with Playa. With some help of Detective Dennis Vassel, the cop in charge of the case, Brian finally gets to kill Playa, but he is in very bad shape after receiving close range shots, numerous beatings and even some stabs.

Now, to the question if the man is dead or alive, it depends on how much money the movie makes in the first two weekends. If Lionsgate see that the revenue against budget is very lucrative, it won’t be too long before announcing the sequel. But if it doesn’t go that well on the Box Office, we can assume that Brian Godlock is dead. Very Schrodingerish, right?

Where is Las Palomas in John Woo’s Silent Night?

Publicado el por Carlos Mario Castro

Did you just watch John’s Woo «Silent Night» and now you’re wondering where in America is this dangerous and offbeat town? First things first, Las Palomas is not a real town. Las Palomas is a fictional town created specifically for this movie by screenwriter Robert Archer Lynn, stating a deep contrast between the peaceful and almost magical name (The Doves, in Spanish) and the cut-throat violence within the city limits. Now we know Las Palomas is not a real town, where is located in the universe of Silent Night?

All the license plates shown in the film scream of a Lone Star location, in the Big State of Texas, not that far from the border. Now, if you ask me, the general vibe of Las Palomas is way far removed from the Texas vibe, feeling more like a So-Cal town, maybe closer to a San Bernardino’s energy, perhaps?

Though clearly a melting pot for people of Latin American descent (México, Central & South America), John Woo makes a good job to establish Las Palomas as an american town, maybe with the clear intention to show that danger, crime and drugs are not a thing just below the South Border.

But if you find a little bit hard to believe that there is somewhere in America looking like Las Palomas does, even right next to the border, you are right. All that we see in the movie, the whole Las Palomas, is just Mexico City. In fact, the whole movie was shot in the mexican capital.

Leave The World Behind ^ Ending Explained

Publicado el por Carlos Mario Castro

What if everything you consider normal, suddenly disappears? No more cell phones, no more music services, no more streaming movies, no more news alerts, no more online payments, no more people everywhere you go. What if for the first time in years you have to face the question of your own identity, without football teams, or movie genres, or political parties, or religions, or anything that defines you? What will you be reduced to?

Leave The World Behind makes a smart cinematographic approach to those questions under Sam Esmail’s clever direction and Julia Robert’s greatest performance in years. But now, if in the midst of the grounded ships, the falling planes, the massive cyber attacks, the interpersonal conflicts, and the forbidden interests, you still have no idea what was going on in this movie, do not worry, because now and without further ado, we will explain the ending and everything else about this movie in detail. Let’s go.

1 ^ What is going on in Leave The World Behind? Is it a Civil War? An Invasion? An Attack?

Two big clues to understand what really happens in the film: 1) what G.H. (Mahershala Ali) tells Clay after leaving Danny’s (Kevin Bacon) house, and 2) what Rose (Farrah McKenzie) finds in the Thornes’ bunker.

From what G.H. tells Clay we know, in the universe of Leave The World Behind , the United States is under a coordinated attack, executed with extraordinary precision by some organization that wants to take power of the country and do it on a very low budget. Just as G.H. said, the plan has three stages: isolation, synchronized chaos, and collapse.

The first stage – isolation – consists of launching a massive and coordinated attack on the country’s entire communications and transportation system. Through an army of hackers, this organization managed to block the Internet, Radio, Television and all satellite communication in the United States, and managed to penetrate the whole transportation network that works with autopilots, such as oil tankers, airplanes, and of course, electric cars. In this way, not only is the country’s population is isolated, but also immobilized, leaving limited resources in the cities over which the population would soon enter into conflict.

The second stage – synchronized chaos – seeks to alter the psyche of the population with very well-planned attacks. And finally the collapse, caused by the country’s own population when they fight for their resources, or worse, when they want to eliminate the supposed cause of the chaos.

2 ^ What is the noise that is heard throughout the film? Where does it come from?

The noise heard during the film, as Danny seems to suggest, is a sonic weapon that uses microwaves at very high intensity, which can result in permanent damage to the body of anyone who is exposed to it, like Archie. The noise is part of the second stage of the attack that the United States is under, and together with the pamphlets in Arabic, Chinese, or Korean, which are found throughout the country, they leave the way clear for it to be consumed. the third stage, the collapse.

It is possible that this sonic weapon is in the same drones that are dropping the red pamphlets with fake information about an upcoming military invasion.

3 ^ Why did Archie’s teeth fall out? Why are deer and other animals behaving strangely?

The effect of the sonic weapon that they are using throughout the country not only generates alterations in human tissues, but also in animals, causing their behavioral patterns to alter, which is why we see birds flying by the hundreds towards New York, or hundreds of deer grouping together, trying to escape the strange noise.

This attacks were also acknowledged in the media, when they informed that natural disaster took place in The South, most probably caused by disoriented groups of animals.

4 ^ Who is bombing cities in the United States?

The attack seems to be a joint action of radical elements within the United States (who were in charge of all the local destruction), and foreign elements, who – with a small budget – want to take down the government of the United States. Now, the pamphlets were clearly intended to create panic among the population and make them believe that they were under imminent attack and that they must seek shelter and supplies at any cost, in effect creating a civil war.

Now, moving on to what we saw in the Thornes’ bunker, in addition to the seasons of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Friends, it is an information system that was not altered by the initial attack, an oscilloscope, which can detect lengths of tiny, or exaggeratedly large, waves that are not used within normal radio, television, or internet channels, and that indicated that 1) Washington DC and other cities are under attack by Rogue Armed Forces, and that 2) several population centers show high levels of radiation.

What is happening then? The main objective of the cyber attack was not the civil population, it was to disconnect the United States Armed Forces, which is why, after the massive disinformation attack, some of the local armed bases dedicated themselves to trying to control the main urban centers, and once there, they were attacked by other groups armed with nuclear weapons, who were made to believe that the enemy was within those cities. The plan is actually very simple, you disconnect the military bases from each other, and you make them believe that the enemy, the one that caused the blackouts, the communications crash, and the war propaganda are indeed in neighbor cities. Now it is just a matter of time that they start attacking each other, even with nuclear weapons, just like the civil population is in conflict for the few resources left.

5 ^ Who is behind the attack on the United States?

We all know the answer, but let’s elaborate on it. It is very interesting that Danny confirmed in a physical newspaper (that sounds weird) that Russian diplomats in the United States have left the embassy to return to Moscow. And it is also notable that none of the pamphlets mentioned are in Russian. So, within the context of the film, who is behind the chaos of the United States is not China, or North Korea, or Iran. It is Russia.

6 ^ What’s wrong with Amanda Sandford? Why does she hate people?

Amanda Sandford is a typical case of a misanthropist. But what in the world is that?

Misanthropy is the general hatred, dislike, or distrust of the human species, human behavior, or human nature. A misanthrope or misanthropist is someone who holds such views or feelings. Misanthropy involves a negative evaluative attitude toward humanity that is based on humankind’s flaws. Misanthropes hold that these flaws characterize all or at least the great majority of human beings. They claim that there is no easy way to rectify them short of a complete transformation of the dominant way of life. [1]

Misanthropy is not a psychological disorder, which should be treated with medicines, as seems to be the trend these days for everything you may find, it is just a point of view that generally comes from negative experiences around the construction and social context from which the individual comes. For Amanda, her job, in which she must read people very well, to sell them things they do not need, has allowed her to glimpse that human beings, in general – and including herself – are a species that destroys everything, only for meeting frivolous and superficial standards in front of other people with whom they have no ties other than sharing common spaces.

However, Amanda’s arc in the film involves understanding that the cause of her misanthropy is precisely the need she has for other people and not being self-sufficient, and Ruth (Myha’la) has a lot to do with that, because although she also considers that the human being, in general, is a negative element, she understands that the definition of human being is useless if it does not go through the ties that are established with other people.

7 ^ What does the end of Leave The World Behind mean?

Leaving The World Behind follow the trend of not having an explicit conclusion, apparently leaving an ending open to interpretation. But it’s not like that. The film, although it does not explicitly show what is going to happen, does leave all the ends closed, making it very easy to infer what is going to happen, and here is the list:

  1. Rose finally gets to watch the final episode of Friends at the Thorne house.
  2. Amanda and Ruth find Rose, and thus find the bunker where they can stay and survive until things calm down.
  3. The Scotts and the Sandfords form an alliance to survive once the civil war expands to suburban and rural territories.

8 ^ What is the message of the movie Leave The World Behind?

The film has two messages, the human and the political. The human is embodied by the character of Julia Roberts, who in fact states that what makes us human, worthy and capable of surviving even the worst adversities, are the bonds we form when we consider others as worthy as ourselves. When despite our differences and mistakes, we consider every human being on the planet as worthy as we ourselves. Without that consideration, we soon simply fall. This is also demonstrated by Clay, that if he had not had that great sense of trust with others, as he had with G.H., and later with Danny, he possibly would not have survived.

Now the political message is much more subtle but is fully connected to the previous one. It is no surprise that we are in a world under an ethereal cyberwar, where the simplest way to destroy a country is by forcing its population to not consider their own compatriots as human beings, to suspend any kind of communication with someone who is and thinks differently (isolation), that they panic when they believe that the other side is their enemy and affects their survival (synchronized chaos) and then they take to the streets to destroy each other (social outbreak, strikes). The United States, Chile, Colombia, France and Ecuador are just some examples where this same idea- extrapolated in the film – has occurred.

It is not that Leave The World Behind warns us of something that could happen, it is that it informs us of something that has already happened, of how we are manipulated within our own borders, through social networks, and how we come out, like sheep, to hate each other, while a minority enjoys the money and power given to them in the midst of chaos. A certain coup d’état. How long are we going to be victims of this type of manipulation? How far will we be able to go?

9 ^ Who was sleeping in the cabin in the woods? Who is the owner?

Well, first of all we must remember that Leave The World Behind is based on the novel of the same name written by Rumaan Alam, who has indicated in several interviews that he wrote his book taking advantage of and at the same time altering the common spaces of horror, such as, for example, the family that goes on a trip, the strangers that knock on the door in the middle of the night, the animals surrounding a house, the cabin in the forest and the strange figures marked on the floor. Generally these clichés develop into something terrifying and deadly as the stories progress, but in the book and movie they are just hints that something bad may happen, but never comes in the end. So the mark of the person in the cabin is simply someone who rents one of the local things to hunt and uses that position to rest between shots. No more.

10 ^ Where is Point Comfort?

Point Comfort is a fictional place that, in the universe of Leave The World Behind is a suburban community located in Long Island. According to the reference points in the movie, Point Comfort is a fictional version of Sands Point in Long Island. The movie was filmed in Old Westbury (where the house is located), Westchester County, and Smithtown, all in New York.

Questions? Annotations? More doubts? The comments section is open just below so feel free write. See you in the next installment of Ending Explained here at El Sabanero X.

[1] THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD PROBLEMS & HUMAN POTENTIAL http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/problem/misanthropy 12/09/23

Power Rangers: Once & Always | Ending Explained

Publicado el por Carlos Mario Castro

August 28, 1993. That was the day the world first saw Jason, Kimberly, Billy, Zack and Trini face off against the evil space witch Rita Repulsa, in a series that literally changed the children’s entertainment industry, with an adaptation of the Japanese Super Sentai series, which first reached the United States, and then the rest of the planet under the name of Power Rangers.

Today, April 19, 2023, 30 years later, Netflix gives us a Special Feature that promises to rescue the nostalgia of the millions of children who saw the Rangers for the first time, now all as adults. Now, if you want to know if Netflix actually achieved its goal with this special, don’t worry because below and without further ado we are going to cut deep into Power Rangers: Once & Always.

1 ^ Which members of the original cast of Power Rangers return for Netflix Special Once & Always?

Only two members of the original cast return in the Netflix special: David Yost (Billy) and Walter Jones (Zack), although we see the entire team of Rangers in scenes from the original series from Austin St. John and Amy Jo Johnson, to the late Thuy Trang and Jason David Frank, the latter two to whom the Special Feature is dedicated.

Replacement cast members from the first three seasons who also appear in the Special include: Catherine Sutherland (Kat), Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Johnny Yong Bosch (Adam) and Karan Ashley (Aisha). Also returning are the original voices of Rita Repulsa (Barbara Goodson) and Alpha (Richard Steven Horvitz).

It should be remembered that the Netflix special is a sequel to the original series, not a reboot.

2 ^ Who play each of the Power Rangers in the Netflix special?

At the beginning of the special, it is assumed that the original rangers standing up to Robo Rita, are Jason, Billy, Trini, Zack, Kimberly and Tommy, as the group of original rangers that safeguards Angel Groove. However, in Rita’s ambush, Kimberly, Tommy and Jason are captured and sent to the Bandora Palace in the Moon, and Trini being the mortal victim of the evil space witch.

Therefore, throughout the course of the special, the Red Ranger titled is switched to Rocky, the Pink Ranger’s to Kat, while Zack continues to retain the title of Black Ranger and Billy that of Blue Ranger. The entire special also serves as a transition story for Minh (Charlie Kersh), Trini’s daughter, to ultimately become the Yellow Ranger.

If the question is about who plays the Green Ranger in the special, the answer is nobody. The title of Green Ranger, unlike the Red, Pink and Yellow, is not switched to anyone else.

3 ^ Is Power Rangers: Once & Always a series or a movie? On what streaming platform can we see it?

Power Rangers: Once & Always is a 1-hour special episode, therefore it is not a series, nor is it a movie. And as we have said from the beginning, the platform on which we can stream that special episode is Netflix. Power Rangers: Once & Always is not available on HBO Max, Disney Plus, or Prime Video.

4 ^ Why were the original Red Ranger and Pink Ranger actors not involved in the Netflix 2023 Special?

According to everything reported in the media, Austin St. John and Amy Jo Johnson were not involved in the project, mainly due to financial disagreements. Apparently Netflix had a somewhat tight budget to produce the special, and the requests of both actors exceeded (apparently by a lot) said budget. In other words, the price of resuming a character from thirty years ago that these two actors had in mind did not match the price paid by the producers of the Special. And even so, it is notorious that the budget for the special was not particularly large.

5 ^ How did Rita Repulsa come back to life after Zordon sacrificed himself for her?

Let’s remember that in the original series, Rita Repulsa actually transformed and managed to redeem herself thanks to Zordon’s sacrifice with the Z-Wave, which eliminated him and the dark magical energy that inhabited Rita. The original Rita actually became a force for good, fighting evil in the galaxy.

However, when Billy attempted to bring Zordon back, he reunited Rita’s dark energy particles that later possessed Alpha, transforming him into a robotic version of Evil Rita. That’s also why Robo Rita is so much crueler, and so much less fun than the original, to the point of killing one of the Power Rangers herself.

6 ^ Why couldn’t Minh transform into a Power Ranger?

Upon learning that Rita had murdered her mother, Minh began training and believed herself worthy of Trini’s Power Coin. However, as Zack specified, her vengeful motivations made her unworthy of such power. That is why she was unable to transform on two occasions. However, when Minh sacrificed herself for Billy, putting the welfare of others above her own motivations, she was finally able to transform.

7 ^ What was Rita’s plan and why didn’t it work?

Robo Rita’s plan was basically to deliver all the information she had from both his experience, and all she took from Alpha, to his younger self so she would succeed in destroying Zordon and the Power Rangers long before they were put into action against her. The plan didn’t work because she needed the energy that one of her monsters sucked from the captured Rangers, and when the Megazord destroyed the monster and Kat destroyed the machine, the portal closed completely.

8 ^ What does the end of Power Rangers: Once & Always mean? Will there be a sequel?

In the end, the one-hour special implies that Billy will try again to bring Zordon back to life, while taking care of Minh in conjunction with Zack, giving the very 90s message that – in the end – forgiveness and union are much more powerful than the thirst for revenge. Now, in relation to whether there will be a sequel to this special, the Power Rangers franchise is far from dead, it is almost certain that in the future there will be other series within the same universe that rescue the idea of ​​the colored warriors who save the world. And also other attempts to make new versions. So while the special may not be universally acclaimed to the point of bringing a new sequel, there’s a lot of Power Rangers still to come.

Questions? Annotations? More doubts? The comments section is open just below so feel free write. See you in the next installment of Ending Explained here at El Sabanero X.

The Pope’s Exorcist ^ Ending Explained

Publicado el por Carlos Mario Castro

Have you ever heard or prayed the Apostles’ Creed? Yes, the one who affirms that you believe in God, Almighty Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth and in Jesus Christ, his only son? And have you ever thought that making that acknowledgment, believing in God and his son Jesus Christ is also, in fact, acknowledging the existence of the devil itself? And what would you do if you are forced into the dilemma of whether to believe in the existence of the devil or lose the person you love most on Planet Earth? What would you do?

The above are the questions with which the director Julius Avery ( Overlord , The Samaritan) shapes The Pope’s Exorcist, a breath of fresh into the church against demons cinema, a long-time-stuck genre with little hope to survive in the 21st Century. The Pope’s Exorcist approaches the theme of the fight against demons from a perspective much more focused on the characters, than on the twisted theological plots, mixed with disgusting and perverted images. In fact, this is a movie that even a kid could enjoy without being traumatized for the rest of his life, like those of us who had the «privilege» of seeing The Exorcist as kids.

But hey, if in the midst of the abandoned abbeys, the traumatized children, the secrets of the Vatican, the sins of the priests, and the demonic princes, you have been left with one or two doubts about this film, don’t worry, because below and without further ado we begin the Analysis and Explanation of The Pope’s Exorcist.

1 ^ Is The Pope’s Exorcist a sequel to The Exorcist?

Thank God, no. The Pope’s Exorcist is not a sequel to The Exorcist, and has a very different story, mythology, and above all, a very different tone than the 1973 film.

2 ^ Is The Pope’s Exorcist a true story?

Short answer: No, The Pope’s Exorcist is not a true story. Long answer: The Pope’s Exorcist is actually a fictional recapitulation of the notes of the Vatican’s former Chief Exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth. Now, these notes are for the most part, detailed explanations of the exorcism processes, with theological justifications, not exhaustive reports of individual cases.

The film as such, like The Conjuring saga, takes pieces of reality in which Father Gabriel Amorth was involved and expands them into a fantasy universe, clearly for entertainment purposes.

3 ^ Where is the Abbey of San Sebastian? Does it exist?

The Abbey of San Sebastian is located in the region of Castilla, in the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León in Spain, but this is within the universe of the film. There is a site with a similar name, called the Monastery of San Sebastián de Silos, a Benedictine abbey in the Province of Burgos, also in the region of Old Castilla, but the Monastery differs greatly from the Gothic structure of the Abbey in the film. Also it has the classic plan of a catholic cloister with an extensive central courtyard.

Now, the Abbey of San Sebastian that appears in the movie The Pope’s Exorcist, is actually Dromore Castle, located in County Limerick, in the southwest of Ireland.

4 ^ Who is the demon in the movie The Pope’s Exorcist?

The demon and main antagonist of the film The Pope’s Exorcist is named Asmodeus. Now, if you are Catholic, it is likely that you have never heard of Asmodeus, since it is a name that does not appear in the official Catholic Bible. However, it is a widely known name within Judaism, and it also appears in the book of Tobit or Tobias.

According to these theological sources, Asmodeus is a demon with enormous power within the hierarchy of rebellious angels, being considered «prince of demons», above regular demons. Asmodeus have the power not only to perceive and analyze the mistakes and sins of the people who come close to him, but also the power to possess multiple bodies at the same time.

5 ^ What happened in the Abbey of San Sebastian in the Middle Ages?

In the universe of the film, the site where the Abbey of San Sebastian would later be built, was the place where Asmodeus, one of the 200 angels expelled from the Kingdom of Heaven, fell to Earth.

Everything seems to indicate that when the area was populated, a cult of Asmodeus was organized, who was the one who built the blasphemous temple that we see at the end of the film. When the Catholic Church received reports from the Crown of Castile of the strange events that occurred at that site, they sent a group of exorcist priests who managed to ward off the evil power of Asmodeus by sealing his temple, consecrating the land and building the abbey on top of it.

However, some time later, abbey staff reported a multiple possession, so Friar Alonso de Ojeda, a powerful exorcist of the time, took charge of the process. However, the evidence later found by Father Amorth (Russell Crowe) and Father Esquibel (Daniel Zovatto), indicates that Fray de Ojeda’s exorcism failed and that Asmodeus managed to possess him.

The consequences Friar of Ojeda’s possession were disastrous, since it was he who convinced Isabel of Castilla, around 1478, to start the Spanish Inquisition, murdering thousands of people accused of witchcraft, and pacts with the devil. When the Pope and the cardinals of Rome realized what was happening, they sent a new exorcist, this time on a suicide mission. The new exorcist locked the Friar in a cell and conducted his exorcism locked in a cage, unable to get out, having swallowed the key. After that, the abbey was quickly abandoned and its property turned over to civilians, which is how it ended up in the possession of the Vasquez family.

The exorcism worked, until the Vasquezes, Julia (Alex Essoe), Amy (Laurel Marsden) and Henry (Peter DeSouza-Feighoney) arrived on the scene, and began to disturb the integrity of the abbey, with the purpose of remodeling it.

6 ^ Who is Rosaria? What sins are Asmodeus using against Father Amorth?

One of the rules of exorcism is that the exorcist and all his assistants must be confessed, since the devil can use non-absolved sins to distract them. Asmodeus uses two specific moments of Father Amorth to attack him: the first, the moment in which he pretended to be dead to evade the fascist army that murdered his platoon, and second, the episode with Rosaria (Bianca Bardoe), a woman with a serious mental illness.

Father Amorth had attended Rosaria’s case, as suspected of demonic possession, but he soon realized that what she needed was a psychiatrist, not a priest, and the father ignored the case, until it was reported that the woman had committed suicide. Father Amorth’s guilt followed him, even after he had confessed. That is why Asmodeus was able to use the image of him to distract him from the exorcism.

7 ^ What are the sins of Father Esquibel?

Now, Asmodeo not only attacked Father Amorth, but also launched serious accusations against his assistant, Father Esquibel, stating that from his position of power he had sexually abused his parishioners.

Later, in confession, Esquibel affirms that he did indeed fall in love with one of his parishioners named Adella (Carrie Munro), and that he was about to leave the priesthood to start a relationship with her, however he reaffirmed his priestly work, and allowed Adella to get on with her life. According to what is understood, Esquibel, despite having lustful thoughts with Adella, never had sexual intercourse with her.

8 ^ Why did Asmodeus possess Henry Vasquez?

Henry had seen his father Roberto (Santi Bayón) die in a car accident, in which he ended up impaled by a tree. The trauma of the event left Henry speechless, and his weak relationship with his mother and his sister made him the perfect victim for possession. It should be remembered that Asmodeus was only able to possess someone, after some of the walls of the abbey were broken, for the purpose of remodeling, and even so he was relatively weak after centuries of confinement, that is why he chose the kid.

9 ^ What was Asmodeus’ plan?

Let us remember that Asmodeus, even after being exiled from the earthly realm, was still active in the spiritual realm and therefore had first-hand information about his former executioners, in the Vatican. His plan, at this time, was to infiltrate the very Catholic Church and destroy it from its origin in Rome, which is why he demonstrated his power with Henry, but he did not assassinate him, nor did he transfer his power to another body, to wait for the Vatican to send someone mighty to destroy it.

Asmodeus intended to possess the body of the exorcist, return to Rome and from there use his power to destroy the Pope and the Church.

10 ^ Why did the Pope vomit blood and Cardinal Sullivan saw the vision of the Bloody Christ?

Once Asmodeus managed to possess Father Amorth, he had achieved his purpose of infiltrating the Vatican. Being the Pope (Franco Nero), and Cardinal Sullivan (Ryan O’Grady) an integral part of the Vatican, they were now exposed to the influence of the devil, even from a distance, so the Pope vomited blood and his illness worsened, and Cardinal Sullivan saw the vision of the Bloody Christ. It is likely that other members of the Vatican, with physical problems (like the Pope) and faith problems (like Sullivan) have experienced similar symptoms.

11 ^ Could the demon take physical form?

In the final confrontation, in which – with the help of Esquibel- Amorth manages to expel Asmodeus from his body, he appears in two physical forms: as Adella and as Rosaria. Now, if the demon could take physical form, why bother taking human beings?

The truth is that the physical forms of Adella and Rosaria are only possible there in the temple of Asmodeus, which is where he has his greatest strength, being the place of his fall. However, outside of the temple, he would not have any power to acquire those forms, which were in fact removed with some ease by the two priests.

12 ^ What does the end of The Pope’s Exorcist mean?

At the end of the film it is understood that the Vasquezes returned to the United States, after the Vatican bought the abbey, consecrated it, and sealed it again. What the Pope asks Father Amorth is to look for the other blasphemous and cursed places where the other 199 demonic angels fell, and with the resources of the church to finish that work.

This only indicates that Sony intends to make The Pope’s Exorcist a franchise just as lucrative as The Conjuring. So to the question of whether there will be a sequel to The Exorcist of the Pope, the answer is, you bet.

Questions? Annotations? More doubts? The comments section is open just below so feel free write. See you in the next installment of Ending Explained here at El Sabanero X.