Fear - Angels and Demons

Among all the religions around the world, Christianity seems to be involved in majority of religious conflicts. Angels and Demons, a sequel to a hit movie The Davinci Code, talks about a religious warfare that has been going on for more than 500 years. Starring Tom Hanks, the movie lets the audience to be in part of serious and secret warfare between two religious groups that lasted for a long time.

The movie discusses about a group called Illuminati (Enlightened) which is a secret group founded on 1776. Because the society went against the authority of the pope and his religion, Christians annihilated whoever was involved with the group. The movie develops as a descendent of the survivor from the massacre starts to get his revenge to high authorities of the Catholic church. It was up to Tom Hanks' character to figure out the murderer and the dark secret hidden behind the plot.

The movie describes Fear effectively because it shows how violent religious faith can be. The person who "punished" the high order of the Catholic Church performs and tortures the innocent people in an unimaginable ways. For example, the zealot stuffs a priest only with dirt and rocks to represent the soil of the earth. By watching the film I have learned that there are boundaries in believing a religion.