WayneLigon
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I just saw Frailty last night. Excellent film, and certainly one with a lot of gaming potential, esp. for Call of Cthulhu, d20 Modern, etc.
Basic spoiler-free premise: Fenton Meeks (Matthew McConaughey), comes forth to tell the FBI that his brother Adam may be the serial killer who calls himself God's Hands, who the FBI has been searching for. The film uses flashbacks to show Meeks' childhood with a father (Bill Paxton) who believed he was on a mission from God to destroy demons that inhabit human bodies. Fenton saw his dad as evil, while Adam saw him as a hero.
(BTW this is, I beleive, Paxton's directorial debut).
I didn't get to see the first 10-15 minutes of it; the phrase 'magic weapons' caught my attention while channel surfing
Check it out if possible. I was quite pleased with it.
Major Spoiler Text
The central premise is 'is he or isn't he crazy'?
Paxton gets messages from God and an angel about his mission. After being shown the weapons, he gets a list of people to kill. Fenton cannot accept this, while Adam is pretty enthusiastic about it.
BTW, Fenton looks about 11-12, while Adam is younger, about 7-8?
Paxton gets the first person on his list, and then removes the special gloves (gardener's gloves) that God told him to use, and touches her with his bare hand. He recoils from 'seeing the evil in her'. Fenton sees no change at all, while Adam claims to have seen what his father does.
Fenton becomes very concerned, eventually defying his father more and more as his concern grows. He helps his father take the second victem in a supermarket parking lot, while Paxton claims that God will blind others to their presence.
He expects Fenton to help kill the man, but Fenton refuses again, much more strongly. Later, Fenton goes to get the local sheriff, who discounts everything, even when shown the 'dungeon' they've recently built to hold the victems. When the sheriff shows a willingness to go investigate the rose garden where the other victems are buried, though, Paxton kills him with the axe, then retches. He's angry that Fenton has caused him to become a murderer and becomes very distraught. He reveals that tha angel told him that Fenton himself was evil, was a demon, but he discounted that, knowing that Fenton just hasn't found his faith in God.
He locks Fenton in the basement for a week, granting him only water. Finally, delirious, Fenton claims to have seen God and beleives in his father's mission. The fourth victem is taken, and Paxton gives Fenton the axe, saying that it's his turn to kill the demon. Fenton turns the axe on Paxton and kills him. When Fenton tries to free the fourth victem, Adam takes up the axe and kills the man.
Flash forward to the present, to adult Fenton in the patrol car relating his story to the FBI man. They arrive at the rose garden where Adam has still been burying his victems.
The adult Fenton reveals that he's really adult Adam, and that Fenton is the one that has been killing these people. He's already been taken care of, but Adam has one last task to do: killing the evil FBI man, who actually murdered his own mother years ago.
It turns out that Paxton and Adam really CAN see the evil in others, as granted to them by God. Adam recalls seeing the horrible acts committed by the people they killed when he was a little kid, and now he's following his own list of people to get rid off. He murders the FBI man and buries him in the rose garden.
Later in FBI HQ, the only other man to see Adam there finds he cannot recall the man's features. All the tapes showing Adam entering the building have such bad dropouts and static, always concealing his face. Having only the name 'Fenton' to go on, the FBI raids adult Fenton's now empty home, finding the list with the missing man's name on it, the bloody wallet, etc.
They go to Adam, and we find that Adam is in fact the local sherrif, apparently married and expecting baby soon. He talks about his past with the FBi man and shakes his head over his brother's descent into madness. He shakes the FBI man's hand firmly, and pronounces him a 'good man'.
End.
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Basic spoiler-free premise: Fenton Meeks (Matthew McConaughey), comes forth to tell the FBI that his brother Adam may be the serial killer who calls himself God's Hands, who the FBI has been searching for. The film uses flashbacks to show Meeks' childhood with a father (Bill Paxton) who believed he was on a mission from God to destroy demons that inhabit human bodies. Fenton saw his dad as evil, while Adam saw him as a hero.
(BTW this is, I beleive, Paxton's directorial debut).
I didn't get to see the first 10-15 minutes of it; the phrase 'magic weapons' caught my attention while channel surfing
Check it out if possible. I was quite pleased with it.Major Spoiler Text
The central premise is 'is he or isn't he crazy'?
Paxton gets messages from God and an angel about his mission. After being shown the weapons, he gets a list of people to kill. Fenton cannot accept this, while Adam is pretty enthusiastic about it.
BTW, Fenton looks about 11-12, while Adam is younger, about 7-8?
Paxton gets the first person on his list, and then removes the special gloves (gardener's gloves) that God told him to use, and touches her with his bare hand. He recoils from 'seeing the evil in her'. Fenton sees no change at all, while Adam claims to have seen what his father does.
Fenton becomes very concerned, eventually defying his father more and more as his concern grows. He helps his father take the second victem in a supermarket parking lot, while Paxton claims that God will blind others to their presence.
He expects Fenton to help kill the man, but Fenton refuses again, much more strongly. Later, Fenton goes to get the local sheriff, who discounts everything, even when shown the 'dungeon' they've recently built to hold the victems. When the sheriff shows a willingness to go investigate the rose garden where the other victems are buried, though, Paxton kills him with the axe, then retches. He's angry that Fenton has caused him to become a murderer and becomes very distraught. He reveals that tha angel told him that Fenton himself was evil, was a demon, but he discounted that, knowing that Fenton just hasn't found his faith in God.
He locks Fenton in the basement for a week, granting him only water. Finally, delirious, Fenton claims to have seen God and beleives in his father's mission. The fourth victem is taken, and Paxton gives Fenton the axe, saying that it's his turn to kill the demon. Fenton turns the axe on Paxton and kills him. When Fenton tries to free the fourth victem, Adam takes up the axe and kills the man.
Flash forward to the present, to adult Fenton in the patrol car relating his story to the FBI man. They arrive at the rose garden where Adam has still been burying his victems.
The adult Fenton reveals that he's really adult Adam, and that Fenton is the one that has been killing these people. He's already been taken care of, but Adam has one last task to do: killing the evil FBI man, who actually murdered his own mother years ago.
It turns out that Paxton and Adam really CAN see the evil in others, as granted to them by God. Adam recalls seeing the horrible acts committed by the people they killed when he was a little kid, and now he's following his own list of people to get rid off. He murders the FBI man and buries him in the rose garden.
Later in FBI HQ, the only other man to see Adam there finds he cannot recall the man's features. All the tapes showing Adam entering the building have such bad dropouts and static, always concealing his face. Having only the name 'Fenton' to go on, the FBI raids adult Fenton's now empty home, finding the list with the missing man's name on it, the bloody wallet, etc.
They go to Adam, and we find that Adam is in fact the local sherrif, apparently married and expecting baby soon. He talks about his past with the FBi man and shakes his head over his brother's descent into madness. He shakes the FBI man's hand firmly, and pronounces him a 'good man'.
End.
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