The critics are right on this one. This was not a faith film. It was a biopic made to appeal to everyone.
It was basically “She Persisted: The Movie.”
She was definitely a strong and smart woman. There was a bit of Tombstone/Don Holiday in her, as she had post-TB symptoms and some kind of lung issue, but she lasted longer than the doctors predicted. The critics of this movie are annoyed with the lack of praying and the lack of pleading for a miracle on her part.
Alan said this was a period piece and that is important to keep in mind, because she is the Patron Saint of Immigrants, but the situation was much different back then. This was in about 1895, so they did not have electricity yet in most parts. It was still in the time of horse and carriage. The movie was shot incredibly well, so be on the lookout for Alejandro Monteverde. He had some amazing shots under water and there was an element of Opera and Rome in the movie.
Andrea Bocelli’s daughter sings in the choir in one scene.
I agree with the 3 star rating.
The movie kept referring to her as “ambitious” and she said in the movie that she wanted to build an “Empire of Hope” consisting of orphanages, hospitals, and schools. The movie emphasizes the appraisal of the real estate properties that she started to acquire. She was so successful at one orphanage, that they threw a hospital at her to save that was going bankrupt because she was so effective. Will say that the nuns impressed me so much.
In the film, the other nuns were basically NPCs, but to have such a large staff of women faithfully devoted to serving, it shows the power of having a team and crew of women like that. They are such good teachers and nurses and instructors. I actually know a very high powered female executive who was raised in one of these orphanages in Greece, who went from total poverty to a top globalist construction firm that builds infrastructure all over the world.
Cristiana Dell’Anna, who played the lead role, is new to me and the performance was completely solid with the exception of one crying scene, her performance was perfect. Again, Director Alejandro has chops and a lot of the scenes look like paintings right out of a chapel. John Lithgow and David Morse delivered. Film Threat did an interview with producer Jonathan Sanger, who was very lucid still, and worked on Elephant Man in the past and had a very good working relationship with Mel Brooks.
I am grateful to Angel Studios for this movie, but it did come off as feminist and made her out to be an ambitious entrepreneur and, at the end, we find out that her global holdings put her up there with the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. That statement kind of diminished her in my opinion because I thought what is wrong with hospitals, orphanages and schools? It makes it seem like she had had ulterior motives and I don’t think so, but one other point the movie made was that she had her own order that was made up entirely of women. What they accomplished together is really impressive.
I don’t want to be black pilled nor do I wish to black pill anyone. There is positive movement in the USA and we should all fight but we need to understand where we are.
From here there are only 2 things that will happen in general.
1) Things get worse before they get much worse and at some point everything comes apart. Don’t fool yourself. That last snap we won’t see coming. There will be a single catalyst and it will happen overnight. At which point it is too late.
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2) Things get worse but through that birth pain of change we make things far better and turn the ship into a positive direction.
The presidential election is going to be bad. No matter who wins you are looking at chaos for some period of time. I suggest having some sort of basic supplies just in case. A weapon to defend yourself is also a plus.
We have 2 major issues right now. The first is an out of control government. We must win at the ballot box and take that back from the establishment war pigs.
The other existential issue is the limitless mass illegal immigration. This is not an accident and is 100% intentional and in many cases you/we are paying for it. We are literally paying for our country to end up broken.
There are far to many people here now we know nothing about, they have no resources, they are being abused by the system that tells them to come. And this will end up obliterating the fabric of America (which is the motivation). It’s so bad the only way to solve this is to close the border and start mass deportations. Will that be awful and horrible? Yes, it will be absolutely ugly. But we cannot blame the solution to the problem, you have to blame the root cause. If someone shoves a knife in your back, do you blame the doctor that removes it for the pain of pulling it out?
Be ready for this year. Just be prepared.
But above all, inform yourself, research, take no one’s word for anything and vote.
“Shut up, Ian” always makes me laugh on Tim Pool’s show, but I have to admit that Ian got my attention with his graphene obsession. I remember hearing something about graphene tennis rackets. Ian managed to find an incredible chemist named Dr. Tour, who is basically like a modern day Chuck Missler. They were talking about an island of plastic the size of Texas that is floating in the ocean and they want to turn plastic into graphene for all kinds of applications. Ian seems to think this kind of emerging technology will help the USA pull ahead, and I got to say, that some of you millennials that are into emerging technology and futurism have my respect and gratitude.
James M. Tour is a synthetic organic chemist, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Syracuse University, his Ph.D. in synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry from Purdue University, and postdoctoral training in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University.
After spending 11 years on the faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina, he joined the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University in 1999 where he is presently the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering. Tour has about 650 research publications and over 200 patents.
Since the 60’s there has been much disinformation (not misinformation) about food and health. The food pyramid, the attack on natural fats and the push behind carbs and sugar. These are things that are all highly incorrect and were most often a push by industry founded on studies that paid for.
The WEF has been pushing against meat and specifically red meat for decades. This has lead to this same disinformation pushing people away from what is natural and healthy. Right now if you go to the American Cancer Society’s website it tells you not to eat red meat and of course the inference there is it causes cancer. This has been tried before. I remember several years ago they were trying to list it officially as a carcinogen.
And now this. The assertion that red meat causes diabetes. I find that so hyperbolic as to be evil. Researchers and industry will tell you that you should only have small amounts of fatless protein and red meat is bad. But all those chemicals we make and all that processed garbage that was never meant to be in your body, hey that stuff is A OK.
And if you are now thinking to yourself, well isn’t meat bad for the environment? As opposed to what? Clearing a forest and plopping in a factory to churn out unnatural foods that have ingredients that cannot be pronounced?
A couple years ago I went to see a doctor whom was a specialist in weight loss. The guy was one of those doctors you never forget because they care. He took time and for nearly an hour explained to me in great detail the food industry from the 50’s on and what parts of it were lies and what parts weren’t. His advice to me for losing weight and eating healthy? Simply this. Eat plants and animals.
My overall take on this is eat what God has made and avoid things that came from a factory.
There is a great documentary out there called “The Perfect Human Diet”. It explains human nutrition from cave man on based on how we evolved. It is very enlightening.
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/in-search-of-the-perfect-human-diet
I hear so many folks say healthcare is a human right. There are things that are human rights but they generally refer to what you are free to do not what someone has to provide you. But the reason for that phrase is because of the massive push for socialized healthcare. I think this is because people view it as “free” healthcare. Well that is entirely a misnomer. Beyond the grace of God NOTHING in this world is free. The UK’s tax rates are about double of the US. So if you already curse the IRS every paycheck wait until you get “free” healthcare.
Now if double the tax rate meant you received timely and quality care, I would say it might be worth it. But this is not the case as their are long wait times and while you prioritize your health over everything else, a government body prioritizes the cost because every socialized healthcare system I am aware of is a financial nightmare currently. Would you expect a government body with little motivation to do a job well? Imagine going to the DMV to see your doctor. In the US there is already a government healthcare system. It’s called the VA. You might want to ask a veteran how well that works for them. I suggest doing it from across a room however.
If you are old enough to recall when ObamaCare was being pushed through. The term “death panels” came out. It was somewhat of a propaganda word from the right but it was accurate. It refers to the rationing of healthcare and how your health is dealt with in a purely administrative and cost context. The left at that time (this was before rabid progressives) mocked this term and said it was insane and that would never happen. (see NPR article below)
Well here comes Canada, offering death to almost anyone that wants it. Why? Because it saves money. And because it’s the WEF’s bidding to crash the population numbers. And yes, administrators decide if they are going kill you or not.