The Crime of Padre Amaro
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Movie Reviews of The Crime of Padre Amaro
Movie Review: Makes you think
Summary: 5 Stars
This is really a great movie. It's well paced, intense, and the dialogue is right on the money. After you watch the movie you start to wonder exactly how does a "man" rationalize his own sins and does that man ever consider how God will view his soul and deeds? The final scene where the young priest is content to let his transgressions be blamed on an innocent is really powerful. This film is at it's best when viewed by a group and then discussed after. A great topic is which priest has the greatest sin the one who aides rebels, the one who accepted blood money to build a hospital, the Bishop who takes money to allow others to cleanse themselves of sins, or the young priest who break his vows of celibacy because he views his job as profession?Movie Review: An astonishing film
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a really understated film that follows the moral collapse of a handsome young priest Padre Amaro. The young man arrives in a village in some backwater of Mexico to find low level corruption. He is also attracted to a young woman of the village who is strongly attracted to him. They begin a doomed affair.
The beauty of the film is the way your perceptions of characters change as it goes on. The corruption of society seems pale to individual corruption.
Those that appear to be corrupt appear less so at the end of the film. Those that appear good are less so.
Even with its understated appeal, you find yourself in a vice of an ending that will just leave you breathless. An astonishing and angry film.
Movie Review: this movie is good
Summary: 5 Stars
this movie is real good. i liked it a lot. it shows what can happens when you makes love with the church and there is nothing bad about the movie it tells what is really going on in this real world. that no matter where in the world we are, and what kind of job you have you will always have a frame will somebody in your work place. I like is movie because shows who far somebody will go for love and over all the odds.this movies should winning an oscar for the deep role it is playing and showing that not all of the fathers are good people like we think.you should buy is movie it is real good. believe me i like it a lot and so did my dad and he is somebody that does not like movies that much.Movie Review: The sin that has been the same throu the years.
Summary: 5 Stars
Believe it or not, the Padre Amaros's crime, which in my opinion should be also called, "sin of Padre Amaro", does not have anything new, except for the fact, that this old novel has been taken to the big screen. This caused a big controversy not only in Mexico, but worldwide. The feelings of thousands of people have been hurt with this explicit film where its shows the reality of a part of the catholicism. Crowds demostraited their anger, right in front of the theatres where the film was playing. The Padre Amaro's crime is not an aisled case, for the last decade we have seen too many cases around the world and in particular in USA where a crime has less impunity.Movie Review: Excelente!
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie was a great a new gooooooool for Mexican cinema which continues to pump out thought provoking, well filmed movies while the "Behemoth of the North" continues to pump out its brain dulling fluff-o-dramas. You can read more from other commentaries, I would just add that I found the most intersting portrayel to be the "crazy" woman who practices her own brand of religion - she is the first to stone the young whistleblower, yet the first to know about the local parish corruption, she is the first to lead in prayer yet the first to steal money from the offering bowl....interesting symbolism of rural Mexican catholics.