The Wicker Man1973

There is genuine fear in its nightmarish tableaux: the breast-feeding woman holding an egg in the ruined churchyard is like a detail from Hieronymus Bosch. And that final sequence, with the eponymous Wicker Man, is inspired.

警察一步步踏入陷阱的原因之一不正是被奉为正统的基督教给他的盲目自大吗？甚至他的查案也并不是纯粹的，警察在查案过程中屡屡“偏题”指摘起岛民的异端行为是展示他的极度虔诚，却也是一种傲慢。他虽然以正统自居，但孤身一人来到岛上的他才是少数派，在拥有统一信仰的岛民眼中，他才是那个异端。愚昧的献祭仪式和面对死亡时对Jesus Christ的呼喊，到底哪一种更加荒唐？宗教的正统性不过是掌握话语权的多数人强加的暴力罢了。

The Wicker Man is, more than anything else, a film about what people can do in the name of religion or, more generally, belief. Its power comes not from appeals to the supernatural but from a deep understanding of our own undeniable nature. Horror doesn't get much closer to home than that.