![]() ![]() ![]() While hitchhiking away from Knockemstiff, Arvin catches a ride with a young man strongly resembling Jesus who treats him kindly and recognizes how exhausted he seems. The ending of the movie The Devil All The Time, however, uses its final moments to imagine Arvin's possible futures, inspiring an initial feeling of optimism before the cyclical consequences are realized. ![]() The book's title is emphasized early on in Campos's adaptation when Pollock's voice explains to viewers that that the protagonist, Arvin, thought his troubled father Willard was fighting "the devil all the time." Set in the author's actual hometown of Knockemstiff, Ohio, The Devil All The Time examines themes of evil and religion and in small town America. The Devil All The Time has a gritty, southern-gothic tone that adds an aura of dread to Pollock's post-World War II tale, which follows several different narratives and a number of characters who face sin and horror on a regular basis in their rural, deeply religious community. Director Antonio Campos's film adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock's novel The Devil All The Time follows the spirit of its source text, only slightly altering the intertwining narratives found in Pollock's book. Pollock, who narrates Campos's film, published his debut novel in 2011, and The Devil All The Time was met with high praise from literary critics and wide audiences alike. ![]()
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