Vatican’s list of films

Re:Vatican’s list of films by jfk13 on Monday July 19, 2021 @05:49AM (#27880747)

And the story is both touching and devastating, whether or not you're watching from a religious point of view.

The same is true for the earlier Robert Bolt film, too: A Man for All Seasons.

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Re:Vatican’s list of films by twirligigue on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:30AM (#27882434)

Agree on both scores!

The thing that stood out for me in The Mission was its dramatic depiction of the power of repentance (i.e. a genuine change of heart) which we saw when Mendoza (de Niro) finally put down his burden at the intervention of the very people he'd persecuted.

In A Man for all Seasons it would have to be the Thomas More's famous replies following Roper's “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7515521-william-roper-so-no...

Funny, though, we still think goodness can be manufactured by the passing of laws instead of by changes of hearts.

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