The Order
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Actor: Benno Fürmann, Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Peter Weller, Shannyn SossamonBrand: LEDGER,HEATH
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of The Order
DVD Review: A NeoGnostic Vatican Conspiracy/Occult Thriller.
Summary: 5 Stars
_The Order_ is an excellent thriller movie which deals with certain folk practices surrounding the Roman Catholic Church as well as some of the secret influence behind the Vatican. In this movie, "the Order" refers to a secret (entirely fictional) Catholic order called the Carolingians which is supposed to have "surpassed even the Jesuits" in its quest for knowledge and its flirtation with heresy. Of course, the Jesuit order is well known for producing many exorcists and psychologists as well as for flirting with heresy (routinely being accused of Protestantism and/or unorthodox belief, as well as tampering with earthly governments and kingly courts, and previously suppressed in its history by Pope Clement XIV in 1773, although later reestablished, and today often accused of modernism, liberalism, or worse). However, the idea that the Jesuits constitute a sort of secret society on the same level as the freemasons for example is simply incorrect. While the Jesuit order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola maintains a code of strict obedience to a superior (argued by critics to involve obedience even unto commission of sin, though in reality never demanding that one sin) and ultimately to the head of the order (sometimes referred to facetiously as "the black pope", based on his black robes - not to be confused with the "dark pope", a pagan imposter, vying for the real papacy who appears in the movie as a fictional character), the Jesuits do not demand the kind of secret oaths which masonry demands calling for disembowelment, dismemberment, and the removal of the tongue should one reveal the secrets of the "brethren". Thus, in this sense the movie relies on certain antiCatholic hysteria in propagating its understanding of the secret order the Carolingians (which in fact does not exist) though supposedly based upon the Jesuits. The movie focusses on a certain character known as the "sin eater" who is supposedly immortal, till a special rite is performed releasing him from his position and creating a new sin eater. According to the movie, the sin eater operates outside the church which maintains a strict interpretation of "Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus" ("outside the church there is no salvation") as a sort of secondary way to enter the Kingdom of God (i.e. heaven) at one's death. The movie suggests that the notion of the sin eater was created when Christ through a special grace gave forgiveness to the "good thief" on the Cross thus allowing him to enter heaven, even though he had not belonged to the Church proper. In reality, there were men called sin eaters living in the Middle Ages (particularly in England) operating outside the church as a sort of folklore among the populace and "eating a man's sins" by taking a piece of bread off the body of a dying man. Perhaps, the practice of sin eating originated in towns where the plague was particularly violent and access to priests was difficult, or in countries which had been placed under interdict thus not allowing access to the sacraments. The sin eater was often a very rich man taking as a sort of death tax the most precious object he could find in the dying man's house, and upon "eating the sins" of the dying man would take them upon himself, thus releasing the man from sin and allowing him to enter the Kingdom of God. However, according to folklore the sin eater was not immortal (as the movie suggests). Rather, at death, the sin eater himself would try to find another sin eater (often his eldest sin) to eat his sins, thus furthering the chain. Otherwise, the sin eater would be damned. (Oddly, one wonders how this would continue through generations as each subsequent sin eater would be quite full of the sins of the last, till eventual overflow.) According to the movie, the sin eater works for a secret society, run by the "dark pope" - a sort of mysterious pagan imposter (satanic involute of the true pope) vying for the papal chair. While secret societies and papal poisonings have always surrounded the Vatican hierarchy, particularly in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period, when power was consolidated within certain elite families, but perhaps also as late as Pope John Paul I, who died in a rather mysterious fashion which some have suggested may have involved foul play, these serpents should not be confused with the church proper. In fact, for example, the church has always condemned freemasonry (though often infiltrated by its members at high levels) which is such a secret initiatic society. The movie also makes reference to the poetry of English Romantic John Keats including his "Ode to a Grecian Urn" ("beauty is truth, truth beauty") and "Ode to a Nightingale" (which plays a part in the "illness"/possession of the female character Mara). Despite its many errors in fact and its obvious antiCatholic slant, the movie does provide a good thriller movie which will prove entertaining to all who watch it. Featuring a rogue priest who is initiated when he performs a burial outside the church's proper jurisdiction, the movie examines the conflicts of a priest burdened with esoteric knowledge. If you have enjoyed books such as _Foucault's Pendulum_ by Umberto Eco or conspiracy type thrillers in general with occult ideas, this movie will interest you, particularly if you like to take a look at the darker side of human life.
Description of The Order
After a friend and a member of an arcane order of priests called the Carolingians dies, fellow priest Alex Bernier travels to Rome to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding his death.Genre: Mystery
Rating: R
Release Date: 12-JUN-2007
Media Type: DVD
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