J Roth writes about the issues of The Mission.

The depiction of the lives and events that came together in The Mission inspired us to reflect upon the experiences of two priests who fell in love with a community and ended up defending it to the death. We identified several major underlying issues presented in the film that we decided to examine more closely in a theological analysis. From the individual perspectives of justifiable violence and non-violence, we addressed the issues of sin/evil, forgiveness, discrimination and the concept of ‘laying your life down for a friend.’

This Academy Award winner portrays many urgent issues transposable to our contemporary understanding of Church in the face of the immediate secular society and the wider non-secular communities.

Adventure Films are exciting stories, with new experiences or exotic locales. Adventure films are very similar to the action film genre, in that they are designed to provide an action-filled, energetic experience for the film viewer.

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