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Priest (1994)
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Cinema in Focus, a
social and spiritual commentary by Hal Conklin and Denny Wayman. |
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Review, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Health -
Spiritual Practices for Human Being. |
| Themes
 | Confession
 | A father who is sexually abusing his daughter is in
the confessional with the young priest, talking about the way he
(the father) uses her. His face, to me, is a chilling confrontation
with evil. (submitted by Meg Queior, Richmond ME) |
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| Confrontation with Evil
| A father who is sexually abusing his daughter is in
the confessional with the young priest, talking about the way he
(the father) uses her. His face, to me, is a chilling confrontation
with evil. (submitted by Meg Queior, Richmond ME) |
| The mother/wife interrupts an episode of her husband's abuse of
their daughter and, in her own way, confronts the evil she has
discovered with anger and outrage (and a knife in hand) -- all
against the backdrop of the young priest's fervent, distressed
prayers. (submitted by Meg Queior, Richmond ME) |
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| Prayer
| The young priest prays in anguish over his inability to
intervene in the abuse suffered by one of his young parishioners,
at the very same time the mother of the girl arrives home
unexpectedly to discover the abuse firsthand. (submitted by Meg
Queior, Richmond ME) |
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| Reconciliation
| "Priest" offers a very moving reconciliation scene at
the very end of the film, as the young girl who has been abused by
her father, comes forward to receive the Eucharist from the young
priest, himself shunned by the rest of the congregants because of
revelations about his sexuality. (submitted by Meg Queior,
Richmond ME) |
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