Hidden meanings in film noir: THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME (2020) - Fuck my wife and lose your life...

Published on 16 September 2026 at 11:27

Thank you for joining us on this review of a nostalgic retro setting movie featuring a stellar cast of actors including Tom Holland, Robert Pattison, and Bill Skarsgard. There are lots of symbolic meanings and subliminal messages in this one, so keep your mind open and have an objective mentality as you read through our review. Have a good time reading through.

  • Religious Suffering 
    This movie has symbolic associations with the Christian suffering of crucifixion including the execution of a soldier and the sacrifice of a dog.
    It symbolizes the conversion of venerating the divine beings into a method of promoting the acceptance of suffering. It indirectly associates the crucifixion of a soldier as a mental programming stemming from religious associations. Then, the crucifixion of Arvin's (Tom Holland) dog by his father, Willard (Bill Skarsgard) serves two purposes. On one hand it symbolizes the enforced suffering of all angelics under Michael, and on the other hand it symbolizes that we suffer irrationally in misguided veneration. As Arvin suffers miserably watching his dog die, and yet his mother, Charlotte (Haley Bennett) still dies from her illness.
  • A Spiritual Slur 
    The symbolic acknowledgement of angelics as dogs represented by the chief dog on a cross is a subconscious mental programming arising from the differentiation or the divine split of the essence of God. So we have Cats representing Demonics or the Scientific side of God, and Dogs representing the Angelics or the Organic side of God. The fight between the Cats and the Dogs is symbolized through history in various forms and even among pet animals. For example, the Vampire and Werewolves battles recorded in mythical history and symbolized in various films and movies. 
    The acknowledgment of angelics as dogs is still symbolized in social cycles by the enslavement of angelic women as dogs. Women tied in dog leashes, and paraded on all fours in public. Women put in cages and made to drink urine or eat feaces in humiliating rituals designed not just to enslave the women but the men too through indirect methods like wanking. These insulting acknowledgment of angelic women as humiliated dogs has been a topic of previous reviews including 'Tokyo Decadence', 'The Villaniness', 'Antiporno', 'The House on Fin Street', 'Clip', 'Casanova, Last love', 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind', 'Black Rabbit', 'Hope Lost', 'Dirty Angels' and 'The Student'.
    It is all quite sad, if you read our eBooks and see the divine split of God and also understand the true intention of the divine beings of origin for us to grow in peaceful harmony with different skills and abilities.
    Like the lyrics of Lucky Dube's song; 'the cats and the dogs have forgiven each other', may our human consciousness be elevated out of the darkness of enmity and into the light of peaceful harmonious growth. 
  • Sex Bait 
    'Fuck my wife and lose your life'. That's a summary of the scheme Carl (Jason Clarke) and his wife Sandra (Riley Keough) have running on unsuspecting young men.
    The sex bait or wife bait is a symbolic reference to the entrapment of lovers under the guise of freedom of sexual expression. Losing one's life in a sexual exchange also refers to the loss of prosperity or enjoyment. For what is life, if it can't be freely enjoyed?
    Many young men have signed up for fraternities and be given a welcome of sex with someone else's wife under the pretense of unity, only to become bonded up to the price and extent of death if they go against the wishes of the system, even if it is a wish that goes against their own favor.
    It seems irrational or far-fetched but there are individuals who are spiritually capable of sustaining such bondage pacts even by placing their wives or betrothed in brothels for unsuspecting patrons. Even worse, is the husband who dies yet keeps a bond of transferred benefits on his widow. Transferred benefits upon death is a means for regaining rights by reincarnation, and it is exploited in spiritual cycles and fraternities.
    Sex, especially one with a woman under the oath of marriage, is like an unseen covenant or spiritual exchange, it is a wrongness that can be spiritually exploited, much more than other vices. Furthermore, the demonic or scientific side of God are very conscious of their rights or angelic true loves among women. But under the bonds of wrongness, they are misguided to express their love wrongly by using the women as sexualized or humiliated bait, while also trying to benefit from the exploitation by coveting the rights of their angelic brothers. Therefore, many angelic men lose their rights to prosperity by eating of the fruits of wrong love, even though the love be empty.
    For every problem there is a solution, and all we have is insights but we sincerely hope that there are people powerful enough to fix the wrongness we identify on this blog. Like a spiritual prophet I once knew used to say; 'If there is a man to spoil, there is also a man to repair or correct things'.  

May our human consciousness be elevated out of the darkness of enmity and into the light of peaceful harmonious growth

  • Beware the Face Painters 
    Lenora (Eliza Scanlen) is impregnated by the new preacher, Preston (Robert Pattison) who rejects her pregnancy, leading to her death.
    In reality, do you see behind the charades of people who portray themselves as guides but act off-road in secret. Do you look behind the veil of societal norms to see the true results and consequences of their acceptance. It's not just about sex because sex is a normal and basic need. In fact sex, with the right person, is one of the many pleasures of life that is meant to keep men happy as we move through this long human race journey.
    Being conscious of face painters is about an ability to carefully choose what we focus and commit our time and resources to. Its about rejecting fallacies and wrong acknowledgements that hinder human progress in favor of things that actually contribute to the good and growth of humanity. 
  • Shun Violence 
    Arvin's decision to avenge his sister's death leads him to commit three other murders. So at the end of the movie, meek Arvin who was heartbroken by the death of his dog had killed four people, albeit in self-defense.
    Violence only begets more violence, if he had exposed the preacher and stayed peaceful, further evidence was coming down the road to help put the preacher down, because there was another teenage girl who he also impregnated. Karma comes slow but we must be patient enough to not act irrationally. Like we mentioned in the movie review of Rebel Ridge it is often better to seek a diplomatic approach. 

Many angelic men lose their right to prosperity by eating of the fruits of love betrothed to the demonic

Thank you for taking the time to read through this review. We hope you garnered reasonable insights and knowledge from it. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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You can find streaming sources for this movie on the links provided below.

Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81028870 

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7395114/ 

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