The Devil as Doppelganger: Instinctual Faith and the Exhausted Rant of Evil in LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT (US 2015)

LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT (Rodrigo García, US 2015) portrays the devil as Jesus’s doppelganger, demonstrating the rivalry between good and evil as the two compete over the efficacy of Jesus’s faith. With Jesus assessing himself as he responds to the devil, the film offers a self-reflexive evaluation o...

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Main Author: Yergensen, Brent (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Institut f. Fundamentaltheologie 2023
In: Journal for religion, film and media
Year: 2023, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 157-171
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Last days in the desert / Jesus Christ / Faith (Motif) / Devil (Motif) / Religious doubt (motif) (Motif) / Evolutionism / Faith / Instinct
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBF Christology
NBH Angelology; demonology
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B Doppelganger
B Instinctual Faith
B Jesus
B Devil
B Skepticism
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Summary:LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT (Rodrigo García, US 2015) portrays the devil as Jesus’s doppelganger, demonstrating the rivalry between good and evil as the two compete over the efficacy of Jesus’s faith. With Jesus assessing himself as he responds to the devil, the film offers a self-reflexive evaluation of faith as it is challenged by skepticism. By analyzing the film using the idea of an evolutionary faith instinct, the article presents Jesus’s trust in God as empowerment that allows him to endure elements of nature and find signs of divinity. The devil’s eventual exhausted impatience and his loss of his wager with Jesus bolster the applicability of a faith instinct. Ultimately, the film is an opportunity for this rendition of Jesus to be articulated in terms of evolutionary discourse.
ISSN:2617-3697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for religion, film and media
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.25364/05.9:2023.1.8