there are few movies about religious believers that are high quality and get things right.
Most of them are placed in the past, where believers actually believed and where you can pretend our ancestors never faced the same dileemas we face in these modern, corrupt times...
But modern ones? Rare: they present believers as ridiculous idiots and get things wrong, making one want to throw shoes at the screen when something especially absurd is shown.
But where is a contemporary film or tv series that takes on issues that resonate in today's world?
The book Brideshead Revisited has been made into a film, which cut out a lot of plot and characters and nuanced stuff, and there are rumors that they plan to refilm it again which I'm suspect will be politically correct and unwatchable.
Well never fear.
Someone has posted the 1981 mini Series on youtube.
quick, before the copyright cops find it's there.
The scenery is great, and the characters are played by classic actors such as Jeremy Irons, Sir Lawrence Olivier etc.
From a Catholic point of view, it is accurate in portraying the pre Vatican II church, with all it's flaws and rules.
The characters include a wide spectrum of believers and non believers: From the father, who rejects the faith because his holier than thou wife drove him away, his mitress,the lovely essentially agnostic Julia, the lovable Sebastion whose mother doesn't seem to worry he is gay but keeps trying to push him to stop drinking and makes it worse, Charles, his friend and narrator,
So where would I fit in? I'd be Cordelia, the plain sister who simply helps people.
the audiobook is here LINK
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