The
Mission
(1986)
- Information at Internet
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- "Seid
gewiß ich bin bei Euch ..." - Mission (Joseph Vilsmaier: Schlafes
Bruder), Mt 4,18-25
2. Adventspredigt im Mainzer Dom 1995: Mission. Mit Christus neue Wege gehen,
Pater Martin Löwenstein SJ
- Themes
- Baptism
- Call
- Courage
- Determination,
Endurance
- Forgiveness/Reconciliation
- Rodrigo emerges from his climb up the falls to be
forgiven and accepted by the very people he had sinned against.
(Charlotte Hoppe)
- The scene where Robert de Niro has a
huge weight of armour cut away by the natives he used to hunt.
Powerful display of forgiveness. (Luke Whiteside, Youth
Alpha Australia)
- Freedom/Redemption
- In the film, The Mission, I found the scene where
Robert DeNero's character (a slave trader) is cut free from the
ropes that held him in bondage by the natives whose lives he had
slaughtered very powerful. (Judith Snyder)
- Repentance
- The Pilgrim's Progress journey of penance up the
falls is a great scene! (submitted by Buzz Trexler)
- I remember the best part as a scene in which a man
(probably Father Gabriel) is climbing a mountain with a back-pack.
The back-pack is weighting him down, and he cannot climb further and
easily unless he gives up the pack. The symbolism is the back-pack
is sin. We can our "packs" of sin with us, and until we
let them go, "we cannot climb to where God needs us."
(Rev. Dinah Haag)
- De Niro and Jeremy Irons in "The Mission" sacrifice
themselves for God and their parishioners.
(Timothy Leuers)
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