Aug 04 2010
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Roberto Rossellini was moved by his disaster with the cynicism and despair of postwar Europe. His Saint Francis offers an reply of faded simplicity and innocence to counteract the slyness and cunning of recent world (paraphrasing the booklet) . It’s an idealistic film. A film of vulnerable and unashamed idealism -like his monks-.
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This film was doomed to be misunderstood, if not dismissed as retrograde in its values, or simply ignored. But Christian values don’t end to exist impartial because we don’t gawk them practised on the laughable box. The evidence is that Rossellini has achieve them in front of our original eyes and they serene create the same impression on us: they are the fair -righteous- values. Times don’t change, fair as values don’t change, only the will of the people to gather or command them.
The ask we face in this movie is: How do we apply these values of innocence, purity, unselfishness, meekness, and charity to unique times? Do they change with the times or do they mean the same as they did in the 13th century? Evidently it’s us who have changed not the concepts. Why? Because watching this film Rossellini has made us identify with the Franciscan monks, with their unselfish admire and innocence; he has made us inspect the world -even though a long gone world- with our expose day eyes and we have -hopefully most of us- identified with them.
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Why aren’t there any more people like them today? I assume there are. If only they would execute movies about them. If at least we agree that those Christian values shown to us in the film are pleasant, immutable and suitable to be pursued yesterday as mighty as today, we have a premise to work with. Then, the next step would be to do that pursuing those values are the suitable and laudable thing to do; at least to try to do. But on the contrary, we distance ourselves more and more from the ideal using all kinds of childish excuses: it’s retrograde, broken-down, un-realistic and many other things.
That an ideal is hard to attain does not form it inadequate. On the contrary, we should strive harder to pursue that ideal. Once -long time ago- it was easy to be unpleasant, to waddle barefoot in the mud or in the rain, to sleep on dirt floors in the commence, to give everything you had to another person because you had so petite that you could -God willing- obtain it support some time soon. And now, when we have so powerful, we give so dinky. How distinguished admire can we afford to give away once we’ve given it to our families, our most intimate friends and ourselves? Not powerful, the tip. How remarkable stuff can we afford to give away once we have happy our lust, materialism and greed and that of our loved ones? Not distinguished, the tip. However today we have remarkable more than yesterday; shouldn’t we be giving more too? This film leaves a black impression of our drifting more and more away from our purpose driven lives.
It teaches by dissimilarity. The message is as obvious as Jesus’ parables for those who want to understand them. If you laugh at it then you are the silly. ‘Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.’
Be clear and read Rossellini’s intro before you gape the movie. I did not and stopped watching less than half plan through the film. After finally reading his introduction, I found the film intelligent and satisfying. Rossellini’s unbiased was, briefly, to bring St. Francis, his beliefs and his enviornment to us as he believes they really were without acceding to preconceptions. And he does it with his usual brillance. Finally, there is an interview with his daughter, Isabella, which is worth the ticket of the DVD. I inquire this movie will be watched for hundreds of years.
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