Fancy Clown
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but in the end he just made a almost random decision. He, and so the audience, based that decision on a gut feeling on who's the bad guy and who is the good guy. I dont know, maybe I missed something.(the wrong one)
I didnt really see it as a question of faith because both options were believing in either one of those spiritual guides.
He didn't make a totally random decision. He
saw that the girl had items from the victims and assumed she was using them to curse them, rather than save them. The clues were all there for him to see that the shaman and monk were working together against him the whole time, however he didn't read them in time (and I'm assuming most viewers as well). The guardian asked him to put his faith in her and trust her, but he didn't. Both sides were doing everything in their power to get him to believe them in order to fight for his soul, and he made the wrong choice because he was unable to tell the difference between the good truth and the evil lie. I took it as a sort of commentary on religion on the director's part, frustrated with both the church's inability to help (they turn away the protagonist), and god or other good spiritual forces failing to save people from evil because of how they work in mysterious and obtuse ways, in addition to being about the internal struggle of belief.