Argentina... where the hell did you come from with this film? Damn! Resurrection (or, it's original title, Resurrección, which I'm not typing over and over because of ASCII laziness) was not what I was expecting to get into but I'm glad I did.
Resurrection revolves around a priest in the 1800's that is traveling to Buenos Aires to help victims of a plague. His journey passes by his brother's home and he visits, only to find the wife has locked herself and her daughter in the chapel and the brother is sick with the plague. After kicking a weird healer out of the home, the priest becomes infected while giving his brother his last rites. From there we don't know what is real, a dream, or supernatural in regards to the daughter begging to escape as the others want to kill her.
I'm a sucker for religious imagery and Resurrection has that in spades. There exists the obvious such as stigmata wounds, or crucifixion poses, but it goes much deeper than that. There tends to be a lot based around the "father," in the literal sense. Fathers and grandfathers are brought up a few times and their actions and consequences of doing what's good for the family. There is also the sense of god giving man free will and standing back while the devil tempts them. Faith becomes a common thread too as it is tested in relation to faith in god, man, science, etc. Finally, my favorite done here is a moment reminiscent of "Father, if you are willing, let this cup pass from me..." the night prior to Christ's crucifixion.
Damn catholic upbringing...
The film looks great, the subtitles are actually good, and there's a scene with a woman that gets set on fire and then shot that was cool. She was trying to kill the priest so it's not as if she's some innocent person. Also, chickens don't give a fuck about any plague. They are the fucking supermen of this film as they will just random be downstairs doing chicken stuff. Bring on Resurrection 2: The Cluckening of Christ!
I give Resurrection 4 Holy Chicken images (by pjusis on DeviantArt) out of 5:
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