![]() ![]() Arvin’s mother Charlotte ( Haley Bennett) gets sick and themes of the line between life and death and the rituals of faith work into the narrative even more distinctly. Willard’s son is Arvin ( Michael Banks Repeta), and the first section of the film takes place when Arvin is nine. When Willard looks up at the cross in the woods outside his house, one senses he can still see horror in an image of faith. His particular trauma has been melded with faith in part because of the day he came upon a man in the Pacific theater of the war who had literally been crucified, his bloody body still barely alive on a cross. Willard Russell ( Bill Skarsgård) returns home to Knockemstiff, Ohio from World War II, carrying the heavy weight of PTSD. ![]() ![]() This is dark, dark stuff-the story of various families impacted by murder and tragedy. Shot on film-which was one of Campos’ smartest decisions-it has a dirty, tactile sense about it, and will be several shades too grim and grotesque for some viewers. ![]() It chronicles how faith and evil often intertwine through the years as men of the cloth commit heinous crimes and their allegedly loyal flock confuse issues of life and death. “The Devil All the Time” is a story of multiple generations impacted by violence in the heartland of America. ![]()
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