Post by snsurone on Feb 5, 2018 3:26:22 GMT
This 1947 movie won Jack Cardiff a deserved Oscar for his breathtaking color cinematography.
That scene of young Joseph running through that flower field was gasp-inducing during the film's first run and is still so today.
According to Wiki, the movie was made shortly before India won its independence from Great Britain, and the novel on which it was based was written in 1939.
It depicts Anglican nuns in a convent (called "the Palace") high in the Himalayas who were assigned to set up a school and a hospital for the locals.
But I can't help but wonder if they were also supposed to "convert the heathen".
The scene of Sabu speaking of his interest in Jesus brings that to mind.
This movie shows that nuns and other clergy are human beings, with desires that cannot be blithely dismissed.
This was evident in the person of Mr. Dean, a real hunk who aroused the passions of both Sister Clodagh, and the mentally ill Sister Ruth.
At the end, the convent proved to be a failure, and the nuns departed for other locations.
It made me wonder if the Catholic Church ever realized that there are some places where it doesn't belong.
BTW, I wish Jean Simmons' role was bigger than it was.
IMHO, she was a breath of fresh air among those stuffy nuns.
That scene of young Joseph running through that flower field was gasp-inducing during the film's first run and is still so today.
According to Wiki, the movie was made shortly before India won its independence from Great Britain, and the novel on which it was based was written in 1939.
It depicts Anglican nuns in a convent (called "the Palace") high in the Himalayas who were assigned to set up a school and a hospital for the locals.
But I can't help but wonder if they were also supposed to "convert the heathen".
The scene of Sabu speaking of his interest in Jesus brings that to mind.
This movie shows that nuns and other clergy are human beings, with desires that cannot be blithely dismissed.
This was evident in the person of Mr. Dean, a real hunk who aroused the passions of both Sister Clodagh, and the mentally ill Sister Ruth.
At the end, the convent proved to be a failure, and the nuns departed for other locations.
It made me wonder if the Catholic Church ever realized that there are some places where it doesn't belong.
BTW, I wish Jean Simmons' role was bigger than it was.
IMHO, she was a breath of fresh air among those stuffy nuns.
