Wise Blood (1979)

Wise Blood (1979) US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the state of a rundown country church, meeting the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce refusal, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus, his first disciple being an 18year old simpleton with a prophetic gift...