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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (52677)	7/8/2002 3:59:33 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Unlike the old Hollywood, movies now leave a lot of ambiguity. I think our takes were much the same. The opening scene of the bombers over the Czech village did seem to portray a genuine miracle (the import of which we didn't know then). And I thought "Father Ed" was convinced that the bleeding statue was also genuine. Yet, then there was the business about the abandonment of the daughter, which seemed left to us to weight in importance. He did become more passionate in his advocacy, and that seemed to help him recapture his own faith. I did not know what to make of the first case he investigated, the flashback one at the lake where the palsied young man made a miraculous recovery. Was his case a fraud? Either it was deliberately ambiguous, or I just didn't get it. But it did seem that the first case was what caused the priest to be shaken in his faith. Overall, I do not think the plot was complimentary to the Church hierarchy. They came across to me as stuffy and arrogant, making the younger Ed Harris character more of a hero for his maverick unwillingness to cow-tow to them and his refusal to avow his faith when he had lost certainty of it. I thought it was the kind of movie that you talk about afterward and compare notes ... that is, the best kind of movie. And that enjoying it has nothing to do with being Catholic or not, religious or not. I'm glad to hear you liked it, too.