What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.
The devil is compromise.
The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating.
There's a clean simplicity to the plotting of 'Sinister,' whether you like it or not. And the scares are deliberate and even heavy-handed in a way. There's not a lot of sophistication or nuance in the plotting and not much restraint in the scares - and that's a part of what makes the movie accessible.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
The villain drives the plot.
When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.