The Exorcist (1973 film)

Bernard: (shuffles his drink) “But what sticks with me is how ruthlessly pessimistic the film is. Pazuzu preying on the guilt the priest feels from his mother’s passing, that Regan’s possession is seemingly borne of nothing besides bad luck, and the entire notion that life’s positive moments are distraction from unholy evil bearing down on us…stripped of fantastical bindings, these come from real places of concern and anxiety many of us feel, and that’s most haunting above so—”

Cody: (chugs beer) “I LIKED IT WHEN SHE THREW UP A GALLON OF GREEN SHIT”

Bernard: “Not an invalid perspective, either.”

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