As beforehand talked about, the intruders of “Knock on the Cabin” have their very own private stakes of their divine mission. They settle for that in the event that they needed to turn into a martyr for the world to be saved, so be it. With every rejection given by the household, every intruder dons a white bedsheet and recites the subsequent curse earlier than their comrades sacrifice them. Two executions, Redmond (Rupert Grint) and Adriane (Abby Quinn), go as deliberate, however as tensions flare up, the remainder of them need to make some caveats. Regardless, all 4 of them are remorseful, and they’re weeping as they face demise, however they stand robust of their convictions as if this was their future.

Regardless of figuring out that she was not committing rumour as she was accused of doing, Joan in “The Ardour of Joan of Arc” doesn’t attempt to struggle her approach out of execution. As an alternative, she is eerily content material together with her destiny, figuring out that she did all she may to avoid wasting the souls of France. That is why she, donned in a white sack, helps her executioner tie her to the stake. She softly cries as she burns alive, not due to her persecution, however as a result of she achieved the mission her guardian angels despatched her to do.

The framing of sacrifice in each “Knock on the Cabin” and “The Ardour of Joan of Arc” is just not romanticized. Somewhat, they’re condemnations of the viewers watching these deaths play out. In spite of everything, these bearing witness may have saved these martyrs if that they had listened.