The Introduction and The Plot
One of the oldest ideas in the history of the human race is the idea of the devil or the fallen angel that opposes God and tries to doom humanity. This frightening idea appears in all monotheistic religions, and it can even be found in pagan cultures across the world. The movie The Omen directed by Richard Donner deals with this concept of supernatural evil and how it plays an important role in the development of world events. After analyzing the main plot of this movie, I realize there are similarities between the story of the omen and the Christian story of Christ. The movie deals with the idea of the devil child or antichrist that opposes Christianity and dooms humanity through deception. This movie focuses on the symbolic meaning of this frightening character which still holds such a strong grip on the minds of so many people even in the modern world.
The story of the Omen begins with wealthy married couple named Robert and Katherine Thorn who live an ideal except that they do not have any children and they desperately to have a child, Robert Thorn is the U.S. ambassador to Italy and he and his wife try to have a baby, but the child dies in during the birth. At the moment a mysterious priest approaches Robert and suggests him that he should just take another baby whose mother had died while giving him birth. Robert listens to the priest and without telling his wife, takes the child from the hospital. The couple named the child Damien and who is not a ordinary child because a series of strange death begin to happen. First the child’s nanny hangs herself on the boy’s birthday and a new nanny arrives to take care of him. Later the priest is killed by a lightening rod in a freak accident, and Katherine loses her second child when Damien pushes her and falls down from the balcony of their home. In order to find more information about the child background, Robert and a photographer named heath travel from England to Rome, and then to Israel when the photographer is decapitated by a pane of glass. Back in England Katherine is also killed by the new nanny, and Robert family realizes that Damien is the antichrist or the devil’s child that has been born to doom the human race. In Israel Robert finds an archeologist who tells him the only way to kill the child is by stabbing him with the seven daggers of Megiddo. Robert tries to kill Damien in a church after discovering that the boy has the devil’s number of three sixes as birthmark but Robert is shot by police before he can finish his task and save the human race. Damien is the adopted by the president of the United States who is a friend of Robert and that makes the devil child smile because he is now in a position of power where he can perform his mission of deceiving humanity and sending us all to hell.
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