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Film · Warner Bros. · 1986

The Mission

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Item: The Mission
Rating: 69
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69Worth an evening.

I got in the car still arguing which priest I would rather have failed beside.

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The review

A mercenary who killed his brother climbs the falls with a bundle on his back. That penance is the door into the story, not a side note. Jesuit priests are holding a mission in South America, and a treaty is about to hand the place to slavers. One priest will fight. One will not. A cardinal stands for the politics. I spent the film asking what obedience is for when the order itself is a betrayal.

Adult, and not because of a cheap shock. People are going to be sold if that treaty goes through. Watch it with someone who has a rule they are scared to break. The climb is conscience you can see. The split between the two priests is the argument you take to the car. The people are not left a saved town. They are left the sight of men who could not agree how to refuse a wicked order.

Journal

Keep The Mission in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Apollo 13

79 instead of 69

Apollo 13 is still a drama film, and it scores 79 instead of 69. What you gain is stewardship: It hands on a respect for skill in the service of bringing people back.

The eight

8
Industry
The mission is the work, and the mercenary's penance is a climb with a bundle.
4
Household
He killed his brother, and no marriage here is a life anyone gets to keep.
8
Piety
Penance and obedience are the argument when the order itself is a betrayal.
9
Courage
He climbs the falls under a bundle, and the priests risk the mission itself.
9
Republic
A treaty, a cardinal, and slavers decide a people the priests were bound to.
6
Temperance
The bundle is restraint made visible, until one priest chooses to fight after all.
8
Truth
A lawful order becomes the lie, and the film will not call that obedience good.
3
Stewardship
The people of the mission are handed toward slavers, which is not a future.

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Film · Italy · 1916

Cenere

69Worth an evening.

A mother sees the son she gave up and leaves, so she will not ruin his life.

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The review

She gave him up, and then she sees him again. A mother, a son, and a choice not to ruin the life he has. Eleanora Duse's only film. Italian, 1916, not an American gross. The face is why the picture was made. A house can watch it. I watched it hoping I would leave a hard meeting that cleanly, and I am not sure I would.

The leaving is the mercy. She does not spend his life to ease the meeting. That is a household doing a hard thing, not a famous face collecting a bow. The camera came for the face. I would keep the mercy. If the kids are up, the line is short: she meets him, and she will not break what he already has.

Journal

Keep Cenere in the record.