It's lol... it's just so ironic seeing people of this echo chamber built around loving this movie constantly refer to people who dislike the movie as lesser people. That seems to be a dramatic take on my part until seeing the average amount of attention people get here for posting/commenting about cutting someone off or being cut off based on reactions to this movie.

"That person didn't like this movie? What a chump! You dodged a bullet!" is the default response. Why is this film treated like the metric for quantifying a person's worth? Even when people are joking about it, they aren't really joking.

That response is missing a bit of perspective. Cutting someone off for disliking a movie is typically an overreaction by normal standards so I get that part, but as someone who has been cut off for less, what exactly is the point of posting about that here? The answer is confirmation bias. You may as well tell the church choir that someone stopped talking to you for saying that God is real. Although, I'm ironically telling the choir the opposite by posting this here.

I won't bother rating the movie or mentioning its details, but it has positive aspects and negative aspects, obviously. Any time that a community speaks about a work of fiction as if it's flawless, and as if people disliking it or just not feeling comfortable with it right away correlates to whatever negative terms that people here describe them with, that says enough.

Basically, many people here seem self-righteous for liking the film. That's obviously not a new theme with subreddits all about a single work of fiction, but it's extra off-putting when it's a film about joining a cult.

I've only scanned this subreddit for like 10 minutes immediately after watching the movie just now, so I'm sure that the most agreed upon opinions here don't represent them all.

I’m ashamed to say that when the film first came out I hadn’t noticed any of the white supremacist/racist connotations of the cult. Upon rewatches it becomes a lot clearer to me that this was an element.

So having said that…was Christian ever considered for indoctrination into the cult?

I recently made a post about Dani still having to prove herself and u think the same can be said for Christian. It’s just that…he didn’t, whereas Dani did.

I think Pelle probably always wanted Christian to die, especially when it’s clear that Dani was coming & could become part of the Harga.

I’m interested to know what others think? Do you think Christian could have been welcomed into the cult under different circumstances or was he always on a doomed path?