Let them tell it, women are the Anti-Christ

Movie Reference: The Vatican Tapes

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In watching The Vatican Tapes on Tubi (you can also watch for free on YouTube), I found myself observing in amazement. The opening scene takes us straight to the Vatican, where two of their priests are studying footage of a young woman. The young woman displayed some extraordinary abilities. Now, if this were a male-dominated superhero movie, these abilities would be looked at through a different lens....a lens less of fear and more of exploit and praise. These abilities the young woman possesses began to activate and get stronger after her visit to the hospital, where she is given drugs to help her infected finger.

All the time, she is being watched, and as the days pass, her abilities get stronger. Because she has no understanding or control over what is happening to her, she does things that land her in the psychiatric unit. At this point, her military father and boyfriend struggle to figure out what to do or how to help her. Side note: you'll notice in this movie the lack of feminine presence. No mother, no sister, no best girlfriend. She's surrounded by masculine energy (military father since birth). I also found it fascinating how the movie portrayed the mother in this story.

Once she gets kicked out of the psychiatric unit for causing a riot through speaking another language/speaking in tongues/speaking light language, she is sent to the priest to, you guessed it, receive her exorcism. We can't mention a priest and the Vatican without a good exorcism. Now, as I'm watching, I begin to think back to most exorcism movies showing a young girl strapped to the bed, being called "possessed," while the priest splashes holy water. This movie didn't disappoint. The difference is she escaped. She spares one of the priest's lives and tells him to inform the Vatican that the Antichrist is roaming the Earth. Months later, she is performing miracles to large gatherings of followers.

What a beautiful ending. Why, you ask? Well, she was able to control her abilities and do good for the world.

The ending really made me think: how many of our female superheroes are in psychiatric units right now "speaking another language," when, if only understood and properly cared for, they could save the world?