Heretic Review: Disbelief

What do you believe in? Why do you believe in it and what’s the purpose of it all.

This movie was a philosophical debate on theology. It makes you critically examine your views and why people believe. This movie does not make a mockery of any one religion and throws questions to all religions without being offensive. I think anyone, religious or not, can enjoy the questions this movie raises.

Ironically, while watching this film in a theatre in Pennsylvania, we had some audience members completely silent during a key scene where their religion was being questioned and they missed the sister missionaries rebuttal.

This movie actually portrays Mormon missionaries quite kindly as it fairly accurately reflects the church’s views, policies and shows the sister missionaries being quite intelligent and knowledgeable about other religions.

This movie was what I expected with Hugh Grant playing a quirky weird guy and also surprised me with some twists I didn’t expect. The film did a great job establishing important objects and key moments through cinematography.

I ultimately left thinking of Pascal’s Wager. This talks about how there is no real reason for or against practicing religion but if there is a god and it doesn’t hurt anything and we may be better off practicing in the event any of it is real. The message I got from the film was, “Even if every religion is wrong. It doesn’t matter so far as you are a good person. Believe whatever you wish because we all could be wrong or someone could be right but we have no way of knowing until we die”.