legion legion legion...boo.

the last few nights have been riddled with nightmares and the early signs of insomnia creeping back in. i woke up this morning around 5 sobbing hysterically and sitting straight up. i will not go into the details of the dream because they actually disturb me enough to not want to recount, but for some reason its dreams like that that put certain doubts and wandering thoughts in my life into perspective. so i snuggled close to craig and tried to drift back off to sleep.

we saw legion the other day. those of you who have not seen it and want to skip this paragraph, i will ruin it for you. i went into this movie expecting to be scared and that there was some sort of demonic aspect. for those of you who dont know legion is the name of a demon in the bible um lets see i think its mark 5:9..and jesus asked what is your name and he answered my name is legion for we are many. yeah creepy from the get go. also let me preface this summary with the fact that i am not a fan of movies that take place in just one place. i get bored. the movie starts with a stereotypical trailer trash girl talking about how her mom use to tell her to believe in god because he is gracious and kind. but after a divorce moms view changed to the wrathful angry god who would one day bring judgement and the apocalypse. when charlie (our heroine) asks her mother why god has changed his mind she gives the ever so comforting motherly advice "maybe god just got tired of the bullshit." we flash forward to a desert diner where our dear charlie is not only very pregnant but also sporting a very healthy smoking habit. low birth weight what?!!? and there is a boy whose name i honestly can not remember (thats a great sign for a main character) who is in unrequited love with our dear charlie. the dinner houses BOY's father, a short cook who is also a christian, a war vet and has a claw for a hand, an upper class family made up of a hip father pretentious mother and slutatstic daughter, who's BMW broke down during their drive across the desert. then drives in tyrese, whos character i really cant figure out. hes obviously driving somewhere with a gun and doesnt want to be involved with the police. you put the pieces together. we jump back to LA where a man has just fallen from the sky, he then cuts off his wings in an alley and steals a bunch of heavy duty guns from a toy store warehouse (oh LA so full of dreams and angels) we learn later that this now man is indeed Micheal the archangel. disaster starts to take over the major cities as we find ourselves back at the diner where a little old lady has joined us for dinner. after insulting everyone she switches into demon mode crawls on the ceiling and bites a good chunk out of hip dads neck before being shot by tyrese. Michael shows up shortly after trying to remain as mysterious as possible and slowly begins to unravel what is really going on. at which time we get to take a glimpse into heaven where Michael and gabriel are having a conversation about what god has ordered them to do. apparently it is not demons but angels that are possessing these people. god is wiping out humanity because he has gotten sick of our bullshit. but charlies baby could save us all. god orders that the baby not be born. michael doubts this mission and expresses this to his bff gabriel. we are left with the haunting line "are you going to give your father what he asks for? or what he need?" this is Michael's motivation to actually save humanity and restore gods faith in us. so angel possessed people start to attack the dinner in large groups. they are tricky, playing to characters weaknesses and using small children to carry out horrible tasks. eventually we lose hip dad, tyrese and slutastic daughter. but all the characters were so under developed that i didnt seem to mind that they were gone. gabriel then hits the scene to fight with Michael as charlie new baby and BOYa drive off to a refuge set up by other survivors. before they leave Michael tells BOYa to "find the prophets and learn to read the signs". Michael and gabriel fight to the death at which point gabriel slaughters Michael and he disappears. we jump to BOYa and charlie driving to safety when gabriel catches up with them. so they climb up a hill (which is of course what you do when a flying messenger of the almighty is after you) just when we think that BOYa is going to die, Michael returns from heaven to let gabriel know that he has failed god and that god is pleased with man and Michael once again. he spares gabriels life and calls him a failure. the movie ends with BOYa and charlie driving with the same opening playing over we see they have the baby and shit ton of guns.

so this is what i learned from this movie :god will one day get tired of our bullshit and kill us off horrifically. even if you are super close to god (like gabriel) and do exactly what he tells you, you will fail him and he will punish you. but if you do what you think is best and dont worry about what god says (Michael) you will be rewarded and epically win. also dont get pregnant, problem solved.