One Thing I Learned: Yes, God, Yes
At the film’s climax, we expect our heroine to confess to her Catholic cohort. She’s supposed to own the scene before leaving it. That is, to abandon her religion, she must first master and then dissect its precepts on a stage where her mastery can be tested.
She doesn’t. She doesn’t owe them that stupid energy. We don’t have to overmaster the architects of bullshit systems just for permission to leave a bullshit system. It’s a rinky-dink game they play with us, requiring superhuman grace and intelligence to move beyond their control. Flawed, weak, inattentive humans can still be smarter than their overlords, and they deserve to get out, too.
It reminds me of a lot of bullshit systems that demand overwhelming attention, patience, and sacrifice to unman their weak and pissy claims at authority.