The prosecution's entire case resided in the realm of medical science, while the defense focused on the fact that the beliefs of both Emily and the priest may have been true. Why would this seem odd to me? i could not put my finger on it myself, that is until the end of the movie. the end of the movie has the court offering sympathy to the defendant. Thats when it hit me, there was a sympathetic feeling for this to happen here in the wacko capital of the world, the USA.
the thought however, that if the defense tried to make the case of alternative medicine, they might have won! They might have one if they continued to justify his beliefs, and of personal choice.
In the movie, the preist attempts to tell the story of possession, and one of demons and saints, but if they argued that both emily, and her parents chose to abandon her medication and seek alternative health care, the prosecution would not have a leg to stand on!
You say demons, hes guilty, you say spirtual healing, its Golden!
the real emily rose, Anneliese Michel, was actually in Germany, and the actual trial was held with both the preist, and the parents of the girl on trial. they both got jail time for neglect. The real trial, they supposedly tried this very thing, and it failed misserably, they saw through that rouge.
they saw that the defenses story was little more than a thin veiner.
they viewed it as that the girl was in a state that she could not make her own decisions, and that her decision was not valid as they were illogical and she was in a psychotic state.
All through the ordeal however, she managed to talk, be lucid, and although tired and weak, she was reportedly herself on many occasions, one such period, she managed to speak about how her problem could highlight for the world the reality of demons. during this time, she continued to refuse medical treatment.
If this case was tired in american courts, and all witnesses had simmilar statments on her moments of lucidity, they would have gone far in court, they probably would have carried the defense.
The fact that she was at moments docile, and lucid tells of a girl who could have made her own decisions. Her decisiosn was to simply refuse treatment, so no possible neglect charge could be made.
Its scary to me that this stuff is possible, not the demons and such, but the fact that in theory, a completly self-harmful, psychotic person can deny care, and we would have to respect that.
Lord help us all should we ever be just crazy enough to sound sane, and say something like that.
i dont know if demons exist, i dont know of heaven or hell, but i do know that crzy people exist, and that this type of event can happen to them.
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