But my contention has never been that being ignorant of the world around you makes you morally wrong in the eyes of the horror movie. It's that gaining knowledge of things presented as being Beyond the Ken of Man strips away your innocence and makes you an acceptable target for the evil things.
Being ignorant is often a characteristic of characters who do this, but that is because it stretches disbelief most cruelly to have characters who regularly say "Wow! Puzzleboxes to hell, illicit sex that makes me a bad person, and demon-summoning incantations! Yeah, I want some of that!"
Louis doesn't say that; in fact, it's the morning that Church has come back to life, when his family's still out of town, that he says he wanted to disbelieve the fact and couldn't. He accepts Church's resurrection before Gage is even back in range of the highway, much less dead. He doesn't want to think about it before Gage dies, but he has accepted it.
Yes, Church only got around to attacking Louis. My point is that the fact that Church turns into a bad and cruel thing emphasizes that a wrong thing was done and a bad thing has been let out. Again, the one instance we are shown of a child burying an animal and having them come back results in a harmless animal. Every instance of an adult--who should know better, who should have learned that death must be accepted[1], especially a doctor--burying something in the sematary has bad things happen. Innocence may go unscathed through the darkness; exploiting knowledge results in monsters. --- [1] One wonders what would have happened if Rachel buried something...
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Being ignorant is often a characteristic of characters who do this, but that is because it stretches disbelief most cruelly to have characters who regularly say "Wow! Puzzleboxes to hell, illicit sex that makes me a bad person, and demon-summoning incantations! Yeah, I want some of that!"
Louis doesn't say that; in fact, it's the morning that Church has come back to life, when his family's still out of town, that he says he wanted to disbelieve the fact and couldn't. He accepts Church's resurrection before Gage is even back in range of the highway, much less dead. He doesn't want to think about it before Gage dies, but he has accepted it.
Yes, Church only got around to attacking Louis. My point is that the fact that Church turns into a bad and cruel thing emphasizes that a wrong thing was done and a bad thing has been let out. Again, the one instance we are shown of a child burying an animal and having them come back results in a harmless animal. Every instance of an adult--who should know better, who should have learned that death must be accepted[1], especially a doctor--burying something in the sematary has bad things happen. Innocence may go unscathed through the darkness; exploiting knowledge results in monsters.
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[1] One wonders what would have happened if Rachel buried something...