Emily Rose

Last weekend I watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose. This movie is supposedly based on true events, which is a scary thought but I figured it was a bit dramatized for Hollywood and doesn’t happen often enough to worry. A young girl going to college away from home one night experiences traumatizing “forces” acting around her. After the demons take over her, she sees many doctors and psychiatrists who diagnose her as “crazy” and “epileptic”. They prescribe her medicines which do not seem to help because she only gets worse. Her family, being religious, contacts their priest who comes to observe her. Her and her family decide to perform an exorcism, despite her being on unnatural medicines. When the exorcism fails, the priest suggests Emily be taken off the medicine and they try again. Since the medicine did not seem to be working, they decide to take her off. A few days later she dies. The movie starts with a young lawyer arguing that she is good enough to take the case of the priest (who was being blamed for negligent homicide). I enjoyed the way the movie was told: it started with the trial and switched between the story of what happened to Emily and the people being interrogated about her case. And Jennifer Carpenter did an excellent job of playing someone who was possessed cause that’s got to be hard.

-Leigh Ann (enjoy fleig its a good one)