mbritton0902
Joined Jun 2013
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I'm more Catholic than the Pope and this was the most incomprehensible and incoherent Catholic movie I have ever watched.
There is no back story on Pio.
It is mixed in with disputes between Catholic Marxists and Facsist that has no relevance to Pio's life.
Juxtaposed against this is Pio praying and being attacked. Random scenes and mishmashed together without the film makers trying to establish any link between any of these events.
Save yourself the two hour troll through this monstrosity of a film and say a few rosaries instead. That, or beat yourself with a large crucifix as it'll do more for your Catholicity than this.
There is no back story on Pio.
It is mixed in with disputes between Catholic Marxists and Facsist that has no relevance to Pio's life.
Juxtaposed against this is Pio praying and being attacked. Random scenes and mishmashed together without the film makers trying to establish any link between any of these events.
Save yourself the two hour troll through this monstrosity of a film and say a few rosaries instead. That, or beat yourself with a large crucifix as it'll do more for your Catholicity than this.
The film is great. It is obviously an adaption of the Screwtape Letters by Prof CS Lewis. It is worth watching just to see how evil was once scorned, then closeted and then adored.
There's an element of Silence of the Lambs in it but it has no real profanity, hardly any visible violence and no spinning heads, vomiting or climbing up the walls backwards (as apparently possessed folks do lol!!!!!!).
I would recommend this movie to all people who believe that the world has gone a bit pear shaped over these last few years and just how incremental it has all been. Many don't notice and this is the point.
There's an element of Silence of the Lambs in it but it has no real profanity, hardly any visible violence and no spinning heads, vomiting or climbing up the walls backwards (as apparently possessed folks do lol!!!!!!).
I would recommend this movie to all people who believe that the world has gone a bit pear shaped over these last few years and just how incremental it has all been. Many don't notice and this is the point.
Tolkien was an unashamedly highly devout Catholic. The movie completely misses all of this.
For example, the movie opens with the Tolkien family thrust into poverty. It skips the fact that this was because Tolkien's mother converters to Catholicism in a very anti-Catholic Britain and was ostracised by her family who would not support her at all. Many more such examples missed. Tolkien called his mother a "martyr for Catholicism" and that The Lord of the Rings was fundamentally "a Catholic story."
For example, the movie opens with the Tolkien family thrust into poverty. It skips the fact that this was because Tolkien's mother converters to Catholicism in a very anti-Catholic Britain and was ostracised by her family who would not support her at all. Many more such examples missed. Tolkien called his mother a "martyr for Catholicism" and that The Lord of the Rings was fundamentally "a Catholic story."