I had the opportunity to watch Sion Sono's recent Love Exposure, and felt inspired by it's quasi-sin-eating priest/father and compulsively sinning son.
To make a 4h hour long film short, a Japanese catholic priest falls for a rather promiscuous and free spirited woman who happened into his church one day, eventually entering into a forbidden affair with the by all appearances "loose" yet earnest woman.
Alas, as he rebuffs her demands for marriage due to his obligations as a priest and the Vatican's refusal to revoke his status in the church, the woman packs her bags and leaves him. Soon, the once gentle and mellow priest who spoke of forgiveness and acceptance becomes despondent and later tyrannical, obsessively talking of sins and sinners, and asking for humanity's repentance before God.
The gentle, widowed priest also grows cold to his son. The son, who faithfully attends his father's confessional despite being little more than a doormat-like fellow who'd make Ned Flanders feel inadequate, tries in vain to "reclaim" the kind, friendly father he once knew. But all his priestly father does is ask for his son to confess to ALL of his sins. Yet, no matter how many sins the son will confess (stepping on ants, not giving up his seat on the bus to a pregnant woman, and other fairly inconsequential sins), it never seems to sate the man. He even goes as far as to chastise his son for making up stories or not trying hard enough.
Eventually, the son decides that the only way to please his demanding father is to become more sinful, more than ever before, more than anyone else.
Am I the only one who feels this could be easily translated into something for Ravenloft?
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