The Exorcism of Emily Rose

nurses and nursing students out there, you definitely have to see this movie...this will somehow test your faith between religion and science...got me?...

this is a story about a girl named emily rose who was believed to have epileptic psychotic disorder after experiencing bizarre things in her school dormitory...as a college freshman, she was quite keen about things that happened to her...she then started seeing things, demonic things to be exact...she started seeing people as demons and then she also started to have frequent seizures after having those illusions...

doctors explained that emily was schizophrenic...she was having visual hallucinations and illusions followed by extreme epileptic episodes...

but her family as well as emily thought otherwise...being very religious, they all believed that emily was being possessed by a demon...so then, they called on father moore to check on emily and exorcise her as well...father moore suggested that emily should stop taking her anti-psychotic medications as this would alter her health and make the demonic possessions stronger...they abided, emily giving her full trust to father moore...

nothing happened, though...then emily got into a decision of stopping her medications and the exorcism because according to her, she already accepted her fate of letting the people know that demons really exist...later on, she became weak not to mention she often hurt herself...then she died...

the rose family of course didn't complain after witnessing all the effort of father moore to exorcise the demon out of emily...but the state decided to file a case against father moore...the case was negligence homicide...they believed that emily wasn't possessed but she was really psychotic and epileptic...

science can prove a lot of things...especially her hallucinations/illusions and seizures...during the trial, father moore played a recorded exorcism for the court to hear...in this tape, emily often scream and speak aramaic(ancient language apart from hebrew and latin)...her voice also changes showing that there are 6 demons who possessed her...facts proved that emily was able to speak aramaic because being an active catholic, she studied ancient languages and can speak well with it...they also explained that the changes in her voice can be done by a psychotic patient because they were able to manipulate their vocal chords...

i reckon it's really hard to say which to believe...being a catholic myself, i have reasons to say that i do think emily was really possessed...but on the other hand, being able to grow up in a medical world (i'm a nursing student), many facts proved that emily was just psychotic and sometimes having mood swings...

i'm not saying that i'm actually slipping off from catholicism...my friends even say that i'm near into being an atheist baing the only one who agreed with the atheist's arguement about having no God...well, i was just sticking to the facts because honestly, we can always doubt our beliefs, can't we?...

but according to father moore's lawyer, facts leave no room for possibilities and honestly, facts are more believable that those possibilities that are hard to prove...