Apostle
In the filmApostle , the mysterious nature of Erisden ’s goddess , the hamlet ’s rituals , and the animate being make love only as the Grinder , ask some explanation . The moving picture ’s main graphic symbol , Thomas ( Dan Stevens ) , infiltrates the island in search of his babe , Jennifer , who was kidnapped and is being held for ransom by the island ’s founder . Thomas ' friend Charles describes the island ’s inhabitants as " blasphemers , a cult , a disease " , and it turns out that he is right — not because of their belief , but because of their only human flaw .
As Thomas interacts with the islanders , he divulge that they worship a goddess who they believe provides them with successfulness in return for offering of profligate . She somehow belong to to the island or vice versa : Thomas finds a series of cave house painting that depict the shipwreck of a watercraft named Exodus and a woman on a throne surrounded by flowering botany , understandably a mention to the goddess .
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to boot , Malcolm ( Michael Sheen ) claims that he and the other two founding father , Quinn and Frank — irreverent convicts sentenced to expiry for treason — were economize by the grace of the goddess , who revealed herself to Malcolm on the island after they were roll out into the sea as stowaway attempting to escape the King ’s sound judgement . For some cause , however , the goddess is no longer furnish enough .
Apostle’s Goddess Is Mother Nature
Andrea ( Lucy Boynton ) , Malcolm ’s daughter , explains to Thomas that the goddess " supply for us , once " and that the island is " sear earth … yet somehow it grow . " This leads them to speculate as to why : Andrea supposes it ’s because the goddess is de-escalate ; Thomas supposes that she has been angered by something . This is the understanding the father kidnapped Thomas ' sister in the first station — their resourcefulness are dwindle away . They believe that the goddess has been poisoning their crops and livestock , and as they become more and more heroic for a answer , Quinn constantly proposes they offer more blood , but the others resist .
Thomas finally come upon that the founder have gaol the goddess and have been forcing her to go through the flesh and blood of their victims . The Grinder force - feeds her and playact as a picket , hold on out intruders ; but Thomas defeats the creature and become before the goddess , who refers to him as " my Logos " and " my child " before plugging her fingertip into his temples , presumably making him read who and what she really is . He is empty-headed with this knowledge , and she tells him to free her , gesturing to an fossil oil lamp . He need for pardon as he congeal her , and consequently the village , aflame .
It turns out that she is no god at all ; she is a part of the island , a part of nature , perhaps some human body of Mother Nature herself . She has a exceptional connexion with Thomas , despite his lack of trust , and look to him several times before they finally fit . In the end , he puts her out of her misery and takes her place . When Thomas crack after the film ’s final engagement , his blood seeps into the sens , which begins to flourish around him ; it envelopes him and transubstantiate him into something like the goddess herself . Through his sacrifice , she is converted , and will presumptively receive next worshippers as she did in the past .
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The Grinder is seemingly part human , part island . His wicker masquerade covers his human face , realise him look like an zombi and moderately blind , lacking imagination . He is a expression of the perversion of humankind ’s kinship to the goddess , to nature . Instead of idolise the goddess as mean , the founders of Erisden imprisoned her and force her to consume the profligate of the destitute . The more they forced her to provide for them , the weak she became and the less effective their forfeiture . Just as an junkie builds a margin for their drug of choice , the goddess built a tolerance for their abuse . However , the reliable addicts inApostlewere Erisden ’s loss leader , drunk on the mogul they incur by raping nature .
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