Vatican City (AP) – There has been a long-standing taboo in the Vatican against talking publicly about a conference when the Pope is sick: speculating that the election of the new pope is considered Gauchi as the current Pope struggles for his life. Of course, this is true, as Pope Francis fights double pneumonia at the Jegilly Hospital in Rome.
But the success of the film and the “conference” entering Sunday’s Oscars has been surprisingly successful, which has made the sacred rules, glorious rituals and supreme dramas of one of the most dignified moments of the Catholic Church into a pop culture and put the Catholic hierarchy in a kind of shackles as it prays for Francis at the same time.
The film cannot be regarded as an annoying or profane film because it respects the gravity of the pope’s election and accurately depicts the ancient rituals and contemporary issues facing the main church today. Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano and Italian Bishops’ Conference Avvenire Daily both gave the “conference” a favorable review.
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Admittedly, the comments were a complex lung infection published before Francis entered the hospital on February 14, which cost him the longest time he had been a pope for 12 years.
It is unclear whether the newspapers will publish them after such a terrible turn in Francis’ health. This is even more so, because it is clear from the opening scene of the Vatican Modern Santa Marta Hotel that the fictional dead pope of the “candave” in which Francis lives takes real life as a model.
But at least, the accidental coincidence of the film’s “conference” found the public’s appeal as the world media fell to Rome to monitor Francis’ health.
Author Harris knows it’s a sensitive period
Director Edward Berger adapted the novel Robert Harris, who was dean of the Cardinal College by Ralph Fiennes, and has won eight Academy Awards, including Best Photos. It entered Sunday’s Oscar with the BAFTA winning Best Picture and Best Ensemble Awards.
Harris knows the sensibility of the moment and how the surreal events of the sick Pope blend his book and movie in the Oscars. But he firmly opposed the moment of trying to promote it.
“I have been rejecting all the requests to talk about its demands and future meetings,” Harris told the Associated Press. “I really wish he had more years.” ”
Francis suffered a setback Friday after inhaling vomit in a cough and demanding non-invasive mechanical ventilation breath. Doctors said they needed 24 to 48 hours to evaluate how and whether the isolated plot affected his overall clinical condition while maintaining the prognosis.
For Francis’ plight, all of this makes the film’s “conclusion” too close to comfort in more ways and worry about what it means to the Catholic Church.
Gentle spoiler alert
To review: The film begins with the death of the pope and reverses the political manipulation and manipulation behind the election of his successor. Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, the dean of Cardinal College, had to organize meetings in a crisis of his faith.
With the future of the church, he must confront secrets, scandals, smear movements and surprising twists while ensuring election integrity.
Massimo Faggioli, a theologian at Villanova University, said the film is “tragically effective” in explaining the institutional instability experienced by the Catholic Church, and the ease of conduct of a single act or misconduct that can undermine someone’s behavior.
“The main threat now comes not from outside (Napoleon, Hitler or secularization), but from inside (especially fear of another sexual scandal).”
To be sure, Berger gained some creative freedom. For example, Cardinal Lawrence Lawrence will prohibit communication and exemplary laws with the outside world in the conclusion and Canon law, which prohibits the seal with conflict and seal of the pope’s apartment after the death of the pope, which will be deported twice or possibly three times.
But it’s Hollywood, and his excellence can be forgiven.
Catholic media loves this movie
Avvenire, who heads to the Vatican to build a line praises the film for its luxurious beauty, plot twists and turns, and “trivial” comments on the current state of the church.
“Let’s face it: ‘Conference’, which brings us to the heart of one of the world’s most mysterious and secret events, is a very interesting film, especially for less-choosy American audiences,” Aviver’s film was released in the Italian Theater before Francis fell ill on December 20.
Written by critic Alessandra Comazzi on February 1 in Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, highlighting the brief but critical turn that Isabella Rossellini plays as Agnes Sister.
As a long-time critic of La Stampa Daily, Comazzi is clear about the Vatican taboos of public talk about a conference. But in an interview, she said the film managed to see a meeting as a thriller without causing an offense. She said the Vatican newspapers were too happy to publish her carnival.
“Dean Lawrence must rule over the Council and liberate it from these false prophets,” she said. “And I also think that from the perspective of the church and religion, the directors have managed to do this in a very respectful way.”
But the Cardinal who was close to Frances did not
That said, the people who actually attended the conference gave the film some thumbs up.
“My experience at least one meeting is not to say that it is some kind of scenario on the back of politics, how to get the candidate elected,” Sean O’Malley, a retired archbishop of Boston, wrote in a February 7 blog post.
O’Malley voted at the 2013 conference to be elected Francis Pope, one of his closest allies. He said he and his brother Cardinal knew very well that millions of Catholics were praying from afar, “so that the Holy Spirit could guide us in deliberation.”
He wrote: “Of course, at the moment of each Cardinal vote, you vote, stand before Michelangelo’s image of Christ in the ‘last judgment’, and then swear before God that you will vote for those who believe you believe in God’s will to the Church.”
“It’s very different from the experience they portrayed in the film. For all artistic and entertainment values, I don’t think the film’s portrayal of the attribute reality of the conference is very good,” he wrote.
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London-based Associated Press writer Hilary Fox contributed to the report.
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