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A ★★★½ review of The Devil's Bath (2024)
"The Devil's Bath" transcends conventional period drama through its piercing ideological critique, exposing how religious doctrine and patriarchal systems created an oppressive prison for women. Agnes's depression is portrayed not as personal pathology but as a rational response to systemic oppression. The Church emerges as a sinister force, with its teachings on suicide and damnation paradoxically enabling the murders it condemns. A pivotal sermon highlights this twisted logic: a woman who kills can be saved through confession, but a suicide remains eternally damned, an idea that drives Agnes's tragic actions. Through chilling depictions of superstition and barbaric treatments, the film
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