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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 fil
by jfk13 5y ago
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.
- twirligigue 5y agoAgree 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-now-you-give-the-devil-the-benefit 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.