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Aug 3, 2022 · What Josiah Saw is not what one could call a cheerful film. It is a type of cinematic endurance test that sets out to smother joy, set it on fire, bury it in the backyard, and piss on its grave.
- Chase Hutchinson
- Movie Reviews Editor
Aug 4, 2022 · What Josiah Saw. Grim, bleak, and displaying a predominantly muddy color palate—all greens, greys, browns—as well as a nervous breakdown of a score by Robert Pycior, Vincent Grashaw's "What Josiah Saw" is a tough watch. It's often terrifying (Pycior's score gave me more than one jolt), and provocative, taking place in the thick of a family ...
- ‘What Josiah Saw’ Plot Synopsis
- What Happens in Chapter 1?
- What Happens in Chapter 2?
- What Happens in Chapter 3?
- What Are The Family’S Sins?
- Who Fathered The Baby?
- Whose Sins Were Paid in Full?
- What Does ‘Sins Paid in Full’ Mean?
What Josiah Sawis a supernatural horror story currently streaming on Shudder. It plays on some pretty heavy themes, including child abuse and family murder, and as such, isn’t an easy watch. The movie focuses on the Graham family – patriarch Josiah and his three adult children, Tommy, Eli, and Mary. At the conclusion of this disturbing terror tale,...
Chapter 1 is entitled ‘The Ghost of Willow Road.’ This is where we meet Josiah and Tommy at the family farmhouse. We learn that Josiah has visions of Miriam, his wife, who died by suicide years before and that he believes she is “burning in hellfire.” She tells him that he and his family will also burn in hell unless they correct their mistakes and...
Chapter 2 is entitled ‘Eli And The Gypsies.’ In this chapter, we get to meet Eli, who was briefly mentioned in the last chapter by his father. Eli is living in an RV and is under scrutiny by the police after having sex with a minor sometime before. His crime was unintentional according to Eli – he thought she was older than she said – but this is d...
Chapter 3 is titled ‘Mary May I.’ The chapter opens with Mary and her husband Ross. We learn that she is hoping to adopt and that she previously removed her ability to have children by having sterile surgery. She has now changed her mind about having a child and believes that adoption will give her the opportunity to love somebody. We also learn th...
These are a little complicated but let’s start with Josiah. Despite the interactions between Josiah and Tommy earlier in the movie, we learn that Josiah is dead. The traumatised Tommy still has visions of his father, however, although it might be that his pa is actually a ghost. Tommy talks to his father regardless, much to the surprise of Eli and ...
It can be assumed that Tommy is telling the truth and that the baby was Eli’s. We can believe this because there is a flashback scene towards the end of the movie showing Eli and Mary having sex in a motel room. Presumably, Eli coaxed Mary into sex when they were younger during the game ‘Mary May I.’ This led to the pregnancy and is likely the reas...
Outside the farmhouse, a tree burns with holy fire. On it is a sign reading: “Eli and Mary’s sins paid in full.” This is further evidence that Tommy wasn’t crazy after all. It would appear that it was Eli and not Josiah who had sex with Mary, although this doesn’t rule out the possibility that Josiah was abusive to all of them.
In Christian theology, Jesus paid for our sins in full when He died on the cross. How this relates to the movie is hard to say. But it could be assumed that Mary and Eli’s sins were paid in full when they faced up to the truth and died at the hands of Tommy. It can also be assumed that Miriam’s sin (of suicide) was paid in full when her children si...
English. What Josiah Saw is a 2021 American Southern Gothic psychological horror drama film directed by Vincent Grashaw. The film follows members of a damaged family before they reunite at their remote farmhouse, where they will confront long-buried secrets and sins of the past.
Aug 3, 2022 · Vincent Grashaw’s hunk of American gothic What Josiah Saw isn’t quite as accomplished as Pulp Fiction, whose intersecting trajectories and penchant for petty criminal sleaze it shares. But it ...
Long story short: Josiah is not trustworthy, and “tells” Tommy things without evidence. Eli and Mary present Tommy with the hard evidence of reality and he chooses to ignore it. Long story long: The movie opens with Tommy and his father, Josiah, who we later learn is a figment of Tommy’s imagination/mental instability.
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Aug 4, 2022 · What Josiah Saw: Directed by Vincent Grashaw. With Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl, Scott Haze, Kelli Garner. A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.
