Cut Above the Rite Page #3

Synopsis: Cut Above the Rite is about a young boy who lost his mother and is in the care of his Uncle Jesus. Thrown into this man's undesirable world of friendship, love, booze, and butchery, Sophia realizes that she must do something to save this young boy's life before it's too late.
Year:
2011
10 min
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XAVIER:
Yes?

ANGELINA:
What if he was suffering from

the delusion that he's possessed?

Wouldn't he react in the same way?

XAVIER:
Admittedly, it's very easy to

confuse psychotic illness with possession.

It's up to the exorcist

to discern the difference.

WOMAN:
So how do you do that?

Well, there are many ways.

For example, paranoid schizophrenics

are not aware that they're deluded.

MICHAEL:
Neither are the possessed

while they're being possessed, are they?

But people who are possessed have

periods of lucidity. That's my point.

So do schizophrenics.

XAVIER:
One can't suddenly manifest

abilities simply because one is deluded.

The man on this tape is German.

How does he spontaneously speak Russian?

How could a boy in a village in Africa

found 400 miles from his home...

...claim that he was abducted by aliens?

It's just as unlikely.

But we're willing to call him crazy

and your German man not...

...because he believes in aliens,

not God.

XAVIER:
We're not here

to scrutinize religion with science.

The object of this course is to view

phenomena through the lens of faith.

So which do you believe in,

aliens or God?

The jury's out on both.

Interesting perspective for a priest.

I'm not a priest...

...yet.

So you're having a final fling

with atheism?

Well, I guess it's more like an

ex-girlfriend who keeps coming around.

WOMAN:
Angelina.

[IN ITALIAN] We are going to

the library. Are you joining us?

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

XAVIER:

Thank you, gentlemen. See you at Mass.

Michael. Walk with me a moment.

I understand you were taught

by Father Matthew.

MICHAEL:
That's right.

XAVIER:
He's a dear friend.

We studied together at Loyola.

He's asked me to keep an eye on you.

He thinks you've got great potential.

MICHAEL:
That's a lot of pressure.

For both of us.

What do you think of the course so far?

To be honest, I don't know

what to make of it.

XAVIER:
I suspected as much.

Tell me, Michael, do you believe in sin?

Yeah, I just don't necessarily believe

the devil makes us do it.

He that committeth sin is of the devil.

Then that'd be all of us, wouldn't it?

And if we're all of the devil,

how do we fight him?

Tomorrow, I recommend you take

your doubts for a walk around Rome.

You can pay a visit

to an old friend of mine.

Father Lucas?

He's Welsh. Jesuit.

His methods are a little less orthodox.

Studied under

Father Carmine De Filippis.

MICHAEL:
I don't know what that means.

-It means he knows his stuff.

He'll be happy to provide you with

the kind of proof you seem to need.

Excuse me, I have a Mass to say.

[BELL TOLLING]

[CATS MEOWING]

[MEOWS]

Jesus.

[MAN SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

MICHAEL:
Father Lucas?

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