Devil - I Don't Buy It.

 (2010) ★★★☆☆

'Devil' is an honest film, despite the fact that there's nothing shocking enough to make you go wow in the end. No need to guess who causes all those deaths, it's the Devil trying to preach. 'You think you're able to bargain with your destiny? You think you can be forgiven for your wrongdoings?' These are sorts of questions, I guess, 'Devil' wants you to consider.

There're 5 persons, 3 men and 2 women. They don't know each other. They're not related. They have no idea what they're going to deal with is something supernatural. They get in the lift. Then the lights go out, a young lady gets hurt in her back without knowing how. They start to panic. We start to wonder who the Devil is. The lights go out again, a man is killed. So the logic may go like, one person would be killed every time the lights are out. Whoever is the last one to stand is the Devil. If you think that way, you're mistaken. Chances are you'd have a feeling of being fooled. And I don't know if that's a good thing.

These people have got nothing to do with each other before they get in that lift. Are they picked for a particular reason? I don't think so because their stories don't intertwine. Or maybe they do. Maybe it's just that the movie itself is too short to be able to let us know. I don't feel really concerned about them as a result.

'If the Devil is real, God must be real too.' As a Buddhist, I don't believe there's something out there, neither high above nor down below, called the Devil. If there is, it lives only inside of us. We're the Devil as well as God. It all depends how we deal with ourselves. So I kind of go with Detective Bowden, 'I don't believe in the Devil. You don't need him. People are bad enough by themselves.' He, nevertheless, bends later. I don't!