'The Vigil': To Believe or Not to Believe?
If you mix religious rituals with dark mythology, the result will be effective, and the story powerful in 90% of the cases. That is exactly what happens at the beginning of The Vigil.

Documentary highlights the mechanisms of a nascent system that could turn out to be a global fraud. Interviewing financiers, experts and thinkers, the film confronts antagonistic points of view and multiplies concrete examples of populations and natural environments threatened by these new practices. The investigation provides a vast panorama of the interests at stake and the lobbies at work around this "new" natural capital, ultimately asking what values are really defended by those who attribute a cost to nature. A new financial crisis could indeed result from speculation and the collapse of these new markets...
If you mix religious rituals with dark mythology, the result will be effective, and the story powerful in 90% of the cases. That is exactly what happens at the beginning of The Vigil.
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It is as bad as your remember, and you are fortunate if you've never watched it. Keep it that way!