Holland and Pattinson compete

"Satan all the time" ... the struggle for religious hypocrisy and sins in the ugliest form

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The Devil All the Time movie, a Netflix original production, adapted from Donald Ray Bullock's 2011 novel, and is his first feature-length novel after a series of short stories;

It tells the story of two generations affected by violence in the middle of the United States.

The film documents how belief with evil has been mixed up over the years and how clerics exploit people to commit heinous crimes.

The director of the film, Antonio Campos, used a movie camera to shoot it, not a digital slide camera, and this was one of his smart decisions to highlight the violence and make it more perceptible to the viewer.

This is a sad, violent and dark story for many viewers.

This is the story of several families affected by murders and tragedies.

A tale of fathers and sons, Willard Russell (Swedish Bill Skarsgard) returns home in Nokemstift, Ohio from WWII with the weight of post-traumatic stress disorder.

His psychological trauma mixed with faith partly because of the day he passed by a crucified man on an island in the Pacific Ocean liberated from Japan by the United States, and the crucified man was alive the moment he was found.

When Willard looks at a cross in the woods outside his home, he remembers that sombre sight of a liberated island.

Willard's son is named Arven (Michael Banks Repita) and his story occupies the first part of the movie when he was nine years old.

Arvin's mother is called Charlotte (Helly Bennett). She gets sick and then all the film turns into a distinctly and striking darkness, and the lines between life and death and the rituals that accompany her are clearly visible in the script.

Willard teaches his son how to respond to violence with similar violence and teaches him that sacrificing something can sometimes be an acceptable answer to situations in life.

The aforementioned suffices for an entire movie, but is in fact only a fraction of the film's 130-minute storyline.

From those promising scenes at the start of the film, Campos and his brother Paulo, who borrowed the novel, take the film in directions branching from people whose stories are related to Russell's story, including the story of a corrupt policeman called Lee Bodeker (the wonderful Sebastian Stan outside Bucky Barnes' suit), and his sister Sandy (Riley Keough) Granddaughter of iconic singer Elvis Presley, married to serial killer Carl (Jason Clark).

The story then skips Eight Years Forward (1965), and we see a young and upbeat Arvin as Tom Holland.

Arvin still lives in Nokemsteve and tries to protect his adopted sister Lenora (Eliza Scanlin), whose mother (Mia Wasikowska) was the victim of a murder committed by a priest (Harry Meiling).

Then comes the story of another corrupt priest named Preston Tigarden (Robert Pattinson) to intervene in the script, and Arvin has to decide if he is able to stop the cycle of violence.

"The Devil of All Time" is a geek movie, and unlike the "Power Project" movie on Netflix as well, it is large enough to accommodate all of its events.

The first half hour is very strange and mysterious and does not reveal the type of film, as you think it is a horror or political drama about a corrupt policeman trying to win the local elections, or perhaps it is the story of a serial killer who carefully chooses his victims with his wife before the story returns to Arven, so you can tell yourself maybe the story of this teen Who tries to overcome the ordeal of his parents' death.

The movie is somewhat slow but not boring, because the viewer feels a mysterious evil in the story and wants to discover it.

Each passing scene smells heavy and smells of death or treachery.

The film does not shine at all, it dives deeper into darkness, murder, blood and misery.

The film needs patience until the full picture becomes clear, as the viewer will feel some distraction while moving from one story to another, but there are many intricate and interesting details.

There is a solid performer in every story even from actors who don't get enough screen time.

Skarsgard as a man with PTSD worries because he thinks God is neither hearing nor responding to him.

Holland proves that the drama is better for him than "Spiderman" and shows abilities that we did not see from him before, and were not originally expected.

Q and Clark are annoying partners in their crimes, and there is the brilliant creator Pattinson (the next Batman) and this is an actor that many may not know, but it shows year after year that he is the most deserving of biased Oscars in its vote for politics far from art.

This is a performance movie, and although Pattinson shows a somewhat artificial performance more than his colleagues, the viewer must understand that the man wants to embody the character of a deceitful priest who wants to hide his spiritual and intellectual emptiness in front of his loyal followers in public, and to highlight his instinct and the dark side of him in secret.

This general idea of ​​the film is a collision between religion and sins.

The film will not be tolerated by some, but it is very good in its entirety, and it may be a masterpiece if it were a short series.

The film brings to mind two films: the first, Frailty in 2002, directed by the late Bill Paxton, and it is about a religious man who turns into a murderer because he thinks that his Lord is telling him to do so.

The other, Live By Night, directed by Ben Affleck in 2016, is similar to this movie only in terms of the large number of characters and the abundance of details of the story, but Affleck failed to focus as he crammed many details into two hours that were never enough for this kind of story closer to epics, while Campos succeeded in That is much or greater than Affleck.

It is noteworthy that the author of the novel himself narrates the film with his voice, a decision that was not completely successful as the film did not need it, but the only purpose that served him was to add a kind of darkness with his monotone voice to the general atmosphere of the film.

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There is a strong performance in every story even from actors who don't get enough screen time.

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