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Movie Madness Mondays: Doubt
Posted by Binks
February 9, 2009
Categories:  Do Somethin'
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WOOT!!! My First blog post :D Soon I shall rule the world! MUAHAHAHA! I mean…erhh…*looks around* …*cough*….back to the task at hand. :D

My, my, my…where to begin? This young ladies is one of the chores I have assigned you to view. Remember? That nifty lil’ Oscar list I said: “Watch them all! or suffer the consequences! ” No? Well then…Here is your time to redeem yourself and go watch it now :P

This movie has a friggin amazing All-Star cast including: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. (What can go wrong, eh?) It’s basically about two nuns (Streep and Adams) going against a priest, Father Flynn (Hoffman) because they think he’s sexually molesting kids at their Catholic school, set in the Bronx of 1964. It’s a deep movie, with lots of intricate turns and allegations. There is a lot of stuff in this film, and really you have to play close attention to detail as well as dialogue, what is everyone saying and why? Who is telling the truth? Who isn’t? What’s with the light bulb always going off? Not only is there a main focus on faith, but also on a patriarchal order. The nuns can’t do much of anything, why? Cause the male priest is the head of the religious order, not a woman nun. Only an overwhelming amount of evidence can excommunicate the possibly pedophile priest, Father Flynn, evidence which the Sisters do not have. But wait! There’s another issue here…

“There is Binks?” – you ask

“Why yes, yes there is!”  :D

What of the mother of the suspected molested child? What did she say? WHAT?! Why would she say that? HOW could she?!  I’m not a mother, but we all know that when the time comes we would do anything to protect our child. But there are different ways of doing that, isn’t there? Is what this little boy’s mother did that far-fetched?

(As for those who have no idea what I’m talking about throughout this review- which means you prolly haven’t seen it- I’m leaving little seeds of curiosity to be implanted into your brain, which will only be satisfied upon viewing this kickbutt film)  hehe >=]

The movie is meant to leave you in doubt -hence the amazing title. You are not supposed to know anything really, except determine your own belief on the outcome, which may be true…and it may not…So what did you think? Did he do it? Did the Sisters screw up? What really happened? What do YOU believe? We all have doubts, we are all human. But when were your actions driven by an instinct that is unproven? What are you willing to risk on a hunch? And what if in your pursuit you lose something greater?

So many questions. No real answers. O_O

-Binks

Next week, superkurre will be reviewing Hairspray.  Whoohoo!


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Danny the Only Bloke

February 9, 2009

I’ve never even heard of it, but the trailer makes it look damned good. Philip Seymour Hoffman looked especially good


MarilyneL

February 9, 2009

it looks really dark and makes us ask ourselves some questions…it definitely must be really good :D


jessica f

February 9, 2009

hahah very entertaining review binks! i was reading it thinking, “i have no idea what she is talking about” and then i read your line “As for those who have no idea what I’m talking about throughout this review” and that is I.

I wasn’t too interested in the film just looking at the preview, but after your review, it seems pretty darn interesting. thanks for the trail of crumbs lol.


Arelis

February 9, 2009

I loved this film even though it brought back not so great memories of when I went to Catholic school when I lived in the Bronx. Some of the nuns at my school were as scary as you saw Sister Aloysius be! Eek…

Anyway, I thought Sister Aloysius was very over dramatic, even though she was by far my favorite character in the film! It was Meryl Streep after all. :D

I wonder though, did the boy’s mother basically confirm that her son was homosexual to Sister Aloysius when they were walking to the mother’s job? Hmmm…


Kathy

February 9, 2009

This movie was 10 kinds of awesome. I’m a little bummed that it wasn’t nominated for Best Picture because I liked it more than “Slumdog Millionaire” and all of the other nominees for Best Picture. What I think made it so good was that nothing was obvious, nothing was directly stated. Even when people were accusing each other, they weren’t explicit. And yet, you still knew what was going on, what people were thinking. That is hard to do, and harder to do well.

And I love that Binks brought up the whole tension of the male-female power structure in the church. That scene in the office, when Hoffman sat in Streep’s chair…awesome. I liked the symbolism of the lights…how Hoffman kept closing the blinds and Streep kept opening them. I’m not really sure what was going on with the light bulbs. lol. Maybe the first time, it’s supposed to parallel what was happening with the blinds? How Streep is always trying to expose the truth (thus shining light on things)…so maybe when Adams was trying to stop Streep, it was like she was trying to stop her from glaring her light on things, so the light bulb went out? Am I reading too much into it? Because it could also have been just for comic relief. lol.

And that scene with the mom was so amazing. The mom just had that one meeting with Streep, and in that one scene…I thought it was so heartbreaking – to see how much she was struggling to do right by her son. Arelis, I think she was trying to say that her son was gay.

Like Binks said, there is just so much going on in this movie, and nothing is really resolved in a neat and tidy manner. I really appreciate that because people are complicated, relationships are complicated, and I think this movie did an excellent job reflecting that.