The Mission

Marjolaine 2022-03-23 09:02:12

Roland. In the epic religious adventure film directed by Joffe, although the images of the two male protagonists are a bit typical and the content is a bit complicated, the imagery is very spectacular, and the photography of some scenes is so beautiful that it makes people suffocate, Jeremy. Irons and Robert. De Nilo's rivalry is also impressive. The plot describes the eighteenth century, the Spanish priest Gabir was sent to the jungles of South America to build a church for the Guarani people. He met the slave trader Rodoza, and took this man, who was deeply guilty of killing his younger brother, to the destination to practice atonement. When their missionary mission was on a small scale, the Portuguese and Spanish governments fought a local war and massacre because of the colonial conflict, and the ending was very tragic.

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  • Altamirano: Your Holiness, a surgeon to save the body must often hack off a limb. But in truth nothing could prepare me for the beauty and the power of the limb that I had come here to sever.

  • Altamirano: With an orchestra, the Jesuits could have subdued the entire continent.