“It’s ironic how experiencing
heaven on Earth may lead you straight to hell”.
The Devil’s Advocate opens a supernaturally thrilling window to the
story of Kevin Lomax, a defense attorney from Gainesville, Florida whose
handsome record as attorney remains to be stainless and untouched by botched
cases. Ever since he began practicing his profession, he has been known to have
a great mind for lawyering. The movie quickly throws this message to the
audience as at its exposition, Kevin Lomax defensively represents a schoolteacher
charged with child molestation in the court. He, by all means, knows his client
is guilty and that the case is hopeless. But, in wanting to preserve his
unbeaten record, Lomax exploits his lawyering prowess as he turns things
around, gets everyone to bite into his logic, wins the vote of the jury and
nails the case. Immediately, it spreads to be the talk of town. Due to this
streak, Kevin is offered, with very tempting lucrative benefits, to work for a
prestigious international law firm named Milton, Chadwick and Waters by a
representative whom he meets at a bar while celebrating. Vulnerable to worldly
delights, Lomax welcomes this invitation and accepts the offer despite the
warnings from his Evangelical Christian mother about big city life. Since then,
a lot has happened to him and his wife, Mary Ann. From a small Florida loft to
an impressive New York apartment complex, he and his wife get quickly
intoxicated with the relishing life of wealth, sex, power and other worldly
stuff. As the movie progresses toward its end mark, it slowly dawns on him that
his personal mentor, John Milton, is Satan in human skin and that all the
wealth and power he was enjoying are all his deceptive temptations.
Something
compels me to say that the presence of Kevin Lomax and all that he’s gone
through in the movie supplies a cinematic support to one of my favorite adages,
“It’s ironic how experiencing heaven on
Earth may lead you straight to hell”. And this induced me to look upon this
movie using a Christian eye.
It does
not really take a sophisticated logic to pick up what the entirety of the movie
tries to suggest. What it attempts to deliver is simple: that earning the world
may mean losing your soul. The movie is a wonderful resource of must-learn
Christian values in a not-so Christian way of telling. I have noticed that
getting to the end of the movie would mean witnessing tremendous amount of
sexual content including odious explicit sexual acts, a number of nude scenes
and add to that a ton of profanity, violence, and occult references. That is
the downside of watching the movie, I admit. But if you keep an open mind and
couple it with rational thinking while watching the movie, you would come to
realize how it tries to maintain some very important lessons in tact amidst
plenty atrocious insides. The movie moves along for like an hour or so to place
strong emphasis on the reality of sin and its consequences. This exposes the
bleak world that awaits those who choose to get off the Godly path for some
worldly delights. This movie gives warnings to the worldly by littering its
content with true human vanity, discontentment, greediness and selfish hunger
for power. If we stop looking at its surface and begin digging, we sure would
understand what the movie truly has for its aim which is to make all souls on
earth, both the healthy and the anemic, to bear witness to the existence of
bleak and miserable basket awaiting to catch all of the fallen.
I know
there are plenty of commercial pagan movies out there waiting for us to buy
into their stuff. But, I have to say this one’s different by wide margin. Others
have no moral center as they twist and blow things up but this one has. It may
seem crowded out by tremendous amount of heinous contents I was mentioning but
it’s there.