What is the significance of the frogs in the rite

As a service, we answer every question that you could possibly have about The Rite. Atheists may not buy into a world where exorcisms are treated as real, and Christians may not like their faith being used a narrative tool in a horror film. Q: Will their opinions on the quality of The Rite finally bring atheists and Christians together on a subject that they can agree about?

The first half of The Rite is surprisingly decent, which makes it even worse when the second half is horrifically bad. A: Not really. He, as stated, has a pretty unorthodox way of teaching his students how to exorcise a demon. He can be in the middle of an intense exorcism and can humorously switch gears to take a cell-phone call. Since women are often metaphorically linked with cats, and even historically through witchcraft. Father Lucas is set to perform an exorcism on a young very pregnant woman, who would be considered not very innocent, sexually.

The pregnant woman is hearing voices, with the idea being that the Devil is talking to her. She demonstrates ticks, growling — and has a similar charm bracelet to the embalmed woman. The connection being, perhaps, that both were not innocent, but both needed or need saving by these men of faith.

The possessed woman is talking back angrily against Father Lucas, but it is still her voice, no masculinized demon voice. Funny — Father Lucas makes reference to The Exorcist. Even Father Lucas had a loss of faith. Michael, it seems, will only be compelled by a sense of guilt for not saving women. The Italian romance interest is a journalist who wants to write about the truth of exorcism. A very common theme in these movies. The priest doing exorcisms because he feels it is the right thing to do.

It sets up the priest as an underdog, as compared to the demon and the Church. Makes the priest seem more heroic for doing what needs to be done to save the girl, and thus the world. The possessed woman speaks only Italian, so Michael cannot understand her.

And Father Lucas acts as translator — so that we will not even see subtitles, not see her real words. Her voice is through Father Lucas, as if he is controlling her. After all, she is only He speaks her story to young Michael, thus showing how he controls or stands in as her agency.

Saying she is in hell. She comes on to young Michael, asks him to rape her, all in English. So the demon is giving her a voice to talk to young Michael. There, that is the direct link — the endangered woman who needs saving by the heroic priest. And the use of the more traditional masculine voice to represent the demon again indicates the idea that the possession gives the woman the ability to speak in a way she otherwise could not or would not.

And there are weird convulsions in her pregnancy — like there is a demon in there — and she coughs up iron nails, like the kind used on Jesus in the crucifixion. Young Michael offers up scientific, psychological explanations. I guess it is a good thing that they set up that he is good at psychology. Father Lucas says choosing not to believe in the devil will not protect you from it. I think that is the message meant for Americans, about why Americans are at risk for demonic possession.

Father Lucas lost a young boy once during an exorcism and lost his faith for awhile. But Father Lucas accuses the mother of hitting the boy — is the mother a single mother? The boy gets a premonition that young Michael is going to die. Which again shows the tension of faith — how do you believe in something without proof? The pregnant woman tried to drown herself and was taken to the hospital. She is now speaking as the demon in English.

Then Lucas brings Michael to see a young boy who has dreams of a mule demon-and horseshoe-shaped wounds on his chest and back to prove it. This time, Lucas does an exorcism not the boy but on his pillow, pulling out a small frog the devil that he swiftly incinerates. Voices start talking out of nowhere. Save your money and watch something truly terrifying—like Teen Mom —instead. Here's his eloquent explanation:.

Anyone who says they know, like Colin the young priest [who] says, "I believe in the truth. Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy. It's like anyone saying "the debate is over. We know. Human beings, we know nothing. And someone says, "But are you an atheist? But who would I be to refute someone like [German pastor Dietrich] Bonhoeffer who sacrificed his life for his church and ended up in Flossenburg being executed by the Nazis?