Great film, lots of symbolism and a family story to boot
The Devil’s Advocate (marketed as Devil’s Advocate) is a 1997 American supernatural horror film directed by Taylor Hackford, written by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy, and starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino and Charlize Theron. Based on Andrew Neiderman’s 1990 novel, it is about a gifted young Florida lawyer invited to work for a major New York City law firm. As his wife becomes haunted by frightening visions, the lawyer slowly realizes that the firm’s owner John Milton is the Devil.
Yup!
My take is that the reason the son remembers is that he, too, has that seed of power. He’s also “outside” of the standard reality.
Which, thinking about it now, could have been the entire point. If satan gets his son to join, great. But even if he doesn’t, the son now knows his power, his otherness. It would be a constant temptation, and a constant lever into the world. One of those long term power plays