[alkytrio666]

**spoilers**

A scene in The Exorcist has always sent a wave of coldness over me. We enter Reagan's bedroom with Father Karras to discover that Father Merrin has been murdered, though we're never told just how. Reagan has somehow escaped her bed shackles and sits in one corner of the bed. There is a moment of extreme quiet and calm, as if both parties- man and devil- are so exhausted by the battle of good and evil that has taken place thusfar that there is an unspoken time-out from the games. Karras pays no attention to the unrestrained demon; Reagan seems momentarily content to sit and watch him. The mise-en-scene is slightly bleached and one could hear a pin drop in the room. It's a scene of sheer poetic beauty.