Marcelino
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The Nuns Story, (1958) starring Audrey Hepburn is a big bummer. In the end (SPOILER ALERT) she breaks her vows and goes off to do who knows what. It seemed like a pretty good story at first. It starts out with her leaving home for the convent and the sacrifice that entails. Then it goes on to explore some of the changes she has to make to become a nun. Well, it seems like the focus is kind of negative, but it seemed like there were many good scenes in the film and I didn't really get the sense that they were trying to destroy nuns until the end of the movie. Still, it seemed like a fascinating look into the life of nuns, but in the end, very unsatisfying.
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It is easier to stir up vice, than virtue.
I like to say acts of contrition for people, when i think they need them and might not be saying them for themselves :-)
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| Posted Jan 15, 2012, 12:19 am |
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DAW
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The Nun's Story is a great film, but it is a work of art, not a recruiting ad. It
is the story of one individual soul who believes that she has a vocation, but comes to understand that she does not. The process of self-discovery is honest, painful and forthright.
The first hour, depicting the path toward the religious vocation, is fascinating, as it is both very detailed and, now, ancient history. The nuns represented in the film exhibit a range of human characteristics, suggesting that nuns are human, even if they have religious vocations.
The film was criticized when it first opened. The Catholic hierarchy and the Catholic faithful wanted a Bing Crosby version of Catholicism, not one that held "the mirror up to nature", both in human terms and in ecclesiatical terms. The film was "anti-fiftiesist", "fiftiesism" being a sentimental, disordered view of the faith that allowed Vatican II to undermine the very foundations of the faith.
Any Catholic who holds the faith and knows recent church history should be fascinated and heartbroken while watching the film.
And the lovely and talented Audrey Hepburn gives her greatest performance.
Watch it!
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| Posted Jan 15, 2012, 12:51 am |
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Augstine Baker
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Anti-Catholic film which creates a false opposition between nationalism and her religious vows.
It tends to portray religious life as stifling and joyless.
One star.
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| Posted Jan 15, 2012, 12:53 am |
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