Adam's Apples is an unusual film in that you instantly dislike all the characters. The Pastor of a church without a congregation is sanctimonious. Life has handed him a long series of cruelties, a father who repeatedly raped him, a wife who committed suicide, a catatonic son, a terminal brain tumour, workers who beat him up. He deals with all this with exaggerated Christian denial. He insists his child runs around and does his homework. He insists nothing bad has ever happened. He lies to a women with a foetus likely to be disabled, using his own "happy" experience.
This denial drives his skinhead Nazi worker crazy. Another worker shoots people on whim. Another is grossly obese, a pervert, and a kleptomaniac.
Then the magic "glorious messenger" highly improbable happy ending made possible by divine intervention. The message is creepy and disgusting, that somehow god exists and despite everything, is perfect, despite his sadistic tinkering. The crazy pastor was right all along.
It contains scenes of crow and cat killing.
It is original and fascinating in a car wreck sort of way.
This denial drives his skinhead Nazi worker crazy. Another worker shoots people on whim. Another is grossly obese, a pervert, and a kleptomaniac.
Then the magic "glorious messenger" highly improbable happy ending made possible by divine intervention. The message is creepy and disgusting, that somehow god exists and despite everything, is perfect, despite his sadistic tinkering. The crazy pastor was right all along.
It contains scenes of crow and cat killing.
It is original and fascinating in a car wreck sort of way.