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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300271203 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 630027120X Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: December 04, 1992 Running Time: 126 minutes Sales Rank: 2875 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1986
Amazon.com: Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) directs this fuzzy effort at a David Lean-like epic without David Lean's sense of emotional proportion. Lean's most important screenwriting collaborator, Robert Bolt, in fact wrote The Mission, which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) who establishes a church in the hostile jungles of Brazil and then finds his work threatened by greed and political forces among his superiors. Robert De Niro is briefly effective as a callous soldier who kills his own brother and then turns to Irons's character to oversee his penance and conversion to the clergy. The narrative and dramatic forces at work in this movie should be more stirring and powerful than they are--the problem being that Joffé is too removed from them to allow us in. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - The Mission
I watched The Mission in a class that I'm currently taking about the Literature of Human Rights in Latin America. The Mission is about the colonial time in South America and shows the treatment of indigenous people and human rights. If we really focus on this movie as a human rights oriented, we could see how the Indians were being treated by the Europeans. They would capture, slave them, exploit them, and the Indians have no saying in the matter; for the Europeans they were like animals, they have no voice, they were nothing. So they could do as they wished with them.
On the other hand ... Read More
Rating: - The Mission
This movie is probably my all time favorite. I have watched it over and over again. The music is thrilling, gentle, and sad. Most moving performances. I have the sound track also, it is most enjoyable. It is a lesson in life. BRAVO!
Rating: - Worth watching on so many levels
So much has been written about The Mission and it has received so many plaudits, that it is redundant to re-list them here. Suffice it to say that this film remains hugely worth watching on every significant level: photography, musical score, acting, etc. One can only envy those who get to watch it for the first time.
The bonus documentary about the challenges and advantages of using actual natives to play the Guarani is worth watching as well.
Rating: - Panoramic Morality Tale
I was interested in seeing "The Mission" when it first came out. I didn't realize that it would take over 20 years before I finally was able to take it in. It seems to have aged well but, then, most historical epics usually do. I was overwelmed by the magnitude of the cinematography. The falls that we revisit often in the film were worth the price of admission.
The film tells of an historic event in which Jesuit priests created some missions in an area around Brazil's southeastern border. The time was around 1750 during which Spanish and Portugese settlements were expanding and ... Read More
Rating: - History is not dead by repetitive and cycliical
A film that comes from so far away 22 years ago that the story, or the history, of the film is no longer important, but was it important even in 1986? Today the struggle between the two Christian kings of Portugal and of Spain on one hand, though hostile to each other when the other party is absent, and the church on the other hand, a church that is also divided between the European hierarchy that only sees the survival they have to go through in Europe by defending there their interests by sacrificing a few missions in South America. Today these details are irrelevant The Christian church or churches ... Read More
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