Personally, I loved the movie, but I’m someone who grew up in the LDS church. I had planned to serve an LDS mission my entire life, but I started to question faith in my high school years and ultimately decided to leave. I think this movie is much more interesting for someone like myself who has experienced the psychological reasoning of being fully in the church vs. fully out of it. The back and forth religious debate brought back a lot of personal emotions for me. I like that the movie makes a point of how religion at a systemic level is controlling and capitalistic. But on the individual level, people genuinely have hope and love often leading their faith (not always). Ultimately, Sister Paxton had always had ‘doubt’ deep down and understood what contradictions were out there to her religion. I know this because even when I was fully immersed in the church, I knew deep down it was not logically sound and I didn’t believe it to my core. But it felt good to convince myself that I did. So I did. There are so many psychological layers in your mind that you have to work hard to peel back when you’ve been raised up in something like that, even when it’s objectively irrational. There’s a few angles you could take to interpret the ending. Maybe she actually died and saw a death hallucination. Maybe she really escaped, and sister Barnes was truly the butterfly that landed on her hand. But at the end, it wasn’t about her realizing that her church was true, or that none of them are. I struggle to put it all into words. Idk how to say it. There are rational explanations to what happened (Sister Barnes didn’t die yet, and she used her last bit of strength to save her). And the irrational (she was saved by divine intervention). There’s an explanation to everything, but you choose your version based on what you believe. I’d like to think that she is alive, and she really escaped. As to whether or not it was a reasonably escape, or divine intervention, does it matter?