Review of [REC] 4: Apocalypse

The relocation of the Devil (the parasite) was particulary interesting in this final installment of the franchise. First, the Devil relocates himself in Angela= an angel, which is reminiscent of the fall of Lucifer. Of course, an angel is the messenger of God. In the secularized modern world, an angel becomes a reporter as a part of the mass media. Angela is an earthly messenger of the world as opposed to the angels as heavenly messengers. She pursues accidents and tragedies in the chthonic society, and, as a result, she contracts a virus of pure Evil. Then, the Devil resides in a soldier, i.e., the agressive nature of man, which perhaps can be associated with the Crusades or the imperialism. Secularized man resorts to the power built on the hypocritical cause. The Devil slides into this gilded nobleness of man. Finally, the Devil, who is chucked out from the vessel (the conscious) into the ocean (the collective unconscious), enwombs himself in a fish, or the ichthus (a symbol of Christ). In the age of science, all the supernatural elements including the Devil are chucked out from the secularized society of the 21st century. He no longer can live in the conscious of our mind. Where the Devil can reside is only in the Christ himself. The "Rec"series are very entertaining piece of an analysis on the religion and the evil in the postmodern world. I enjoyed them very much.