Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) by Miri R — 26 Oct 2017
How far are we willing to go for our rationalist belief? Horror is a genius test, one that shatters hypocrisy and reduces rationalists to their knees: You are told an utterly ridiculous theory. Yet it keeps proving itself true.
Well, mostly, because Anna remained an outlier. Now that the theory predicts absolute horror that you can stop at a painful but smaller price, how steadfast is your faith in rationalism? The killing of a sacred deer is the sharpest satire against hypocritical rationalists who sneer at religious beliefs.
Nobody knows whether the son needed to be killed in the end. Martin's theory was never fully tested. Did the son die as a sacrifice? Or did he die of a rationalist's hypocrisy? The truth, sometimes, is our biggest fear.
This review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) was written by Miri R on 26 Oct 2017.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer has generally received positive reviews.
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