Father Joe’s visions are balanced briefly on the question mark over whether they are God’s offer of redemption or a human attempt to draw attention away from his previous sins: provocative fuel here for the battle between psychology and theology to explain the extraordinary, but it is a short lived debate.
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Elsewhere, Mulder’s psychic priest has visions seen as if “through dirty glass” – a 1 Corinthians 12 theme that has been taken up more fully in other X Files stories. At their best, the monsters of X Files episodes provided correlations to the internal themes of Mulder and Scully here, the revelation of the enemy has little more than a tenuous relevance to the film’s themes.Ĭatholicism takes a fair amount of bashing in the form of the priests who run Scully’s hospital: a manipulative, insipid lot, they do their best to frustrate her with unexplained dogma about “letting God’s will be done”. Each storyline in a single episode would have been sufficient and the issues can only be jabbed by the stick of insight before the main plot engulfs all that went before it. Scully wrestles with questions about faith and human medicinal intervention Mulder places his faith in a psychic, paedophilic priest the two of them share a bed discussing their intimate past (their son William from the series) whilst calling each other by their surnames. Once the story line kicks in, it feels like too much is being attempted. The film’s pacing is uneven too: the exposition is tiresome, with Mulder playing the bearded and hurt hero being tempted back for one last mission/ballgame/parachute jump, and as with all last orders, a pint of pathos shandy makes its irresistible way towards us. As a stand-alone film, however, the possibilities of subtlety are reduced and, attempting to cater for both an audience of newcomers and established fans, the references are signposted with slabs of dialogue: “You’re still searching for your sister, Mulder…you want to believe”. Visual and aural motifs flickered in and out of the episodes, hinting at the underlying connectedness unveiled during the investigators’ work.
#The x files i want to believe series
The X Files entranced me as a series because it was able to build up a tapestry of allusion and repetition accessible to anyone with a pause button or wikipedia. People who had never seen an episode before, curious as to the hype? Filmgoers eager for a dose of conspiratorial entertainment? Or fans still eager for a reunion of Mulder and Scully? Either one will likely leave the cinema disappointed, as the film pitches between gruesome horror, a patchwork meditation on faith, and a love story between the two protagonists.
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I wonder whom the makers of X Files: I Want To Believe fancied would come to watch their film.