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Plot: A young priest is sent to Rome to investigate the troubling death of the head of his order.
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MCT:June 20, 2008Interested
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MCT:February 11, 2008New York Detective: Is says here she tried to kill you at an - exercise class?
Alex Bernier: She tried to kill me at an exorCISM.
Alex Bernier: And now it is I. I have been blessed and cursed... for now I possess the keys to the kingdom of heaven. I will forgive those who deserve freedom. I will damn those who have damned themselves. I will learn to live after love has died. I am the sin eater.
A young priest named Alex is sent to Rome to investigate the troubling death of the head of his order...
Heath Ledger: Alex Bernier
Shannyn Sossamon: Mara Sinclair
Benno Fürmann: William Eden
Mark Addy: Thomas Garrett
Peter Weller: Driscoll
Francesco Carnelutti: Dominic
The Sin Eater" is a extraordinary movie which will come to first time viewers as a hit-piece. Most certainly to people who have been raised with a religion, in particular the Catholic. The Sin Eater actually filled out a couple of important blanks for me.
The central theme inside the movie is "There is no Salvation outside the Catholic Church of Rome". It means that people, who have been excommunicated, need to find a alternative method to find a eternal resting place for their soul. Enter the Sin Eater, who, with his special powers, delivers salvation at demand for the right price. The Sin Eater is like an extra "God" on earth and as such cannot die and lives an eternal life.
There's one little problem though. Although people do get salvation, their sins are not undone, but are actually saved up inside the Sin Eater's body and soul. After having done his job for over 500 years, the number and severity of sins have become to much, even for a Sin Eater. A replacement is due.
Enter the last of the Carolinger Priests, who is carefully recruited throughout the movie, in a CIA secret service styled method. The Carolinger Priests inside the Sin Eater are presented as the Jedi of the Catholic priesthood, who do exorcisms and extermination of evil demons like candy cakes between lunch and supper.
The old Sin Eater turns out have made a covert deal with a rotten black satanic Cardinal who wants to become the new pope. It is this rotten deal with the Cardinal which becomes one Sin to far for the Sin Eater as his Sin absorbing powers are decreasing rapidly. After the Sin Eater is replaced by the Carolinger Priest, who is not into black occult Satan worship, things turns very bad for the Cardinal as well.
Although the above scenario reads like a nut-case novel to people with atheistic or pagan beliefs, the movie addresses the fight between the Christian religion and paganism in a straightforward fashion. E.g. the Satanic Cardinal retrieves all of his knowledge by hanging people and listening to their last words while dying.
The Sin Eater contains some interesting scenes. For instance, when the Carolingian Chief Dominic is coming home for the last time, two orphan children are waiting for him at the door. Dominic suddenly knows his last hour on earth is very near. Such signs have been reported before to actually happen in real life.
After a Knight's Tale this was my other fave film of Heath's. -
MCT:February 7, 2007Really great film... Practically the whole cast of A Knight's Tale, but they work well together so who cares?!? Interesting storyline and quite easy to follow.
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MCT:January 28, 2007ok flick at best.
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MCT:November 18, 2006
It was cool, but not what I expected it to be at all. Another dissapointment.
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MCT:November 24, 2008
Outstanding performance for such a different category of acting from someone that had a potential that will never be fully known.
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