Shanley's thesis flies in the face of a horrific reality supported by overwhelming odds. Moreover, it insults the lifelong pain involuntarily borne by abuse survivors everywhere, and thereby revictimizes them.
It may be that Shanley is merely plying an art that is anecdotal and removed from familiar reality, but in such case, it would be largely irrelevant, and not at all praiseworthy, much less prizeworthy. Methinks this playwright is still very much tied to the apron strings of Mother Church.
Udo S
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Lucky for us, Doubt is apparently such a bad movie that not many people will see it or if they see it they will not like it, so the church did not get what it wanted from this suspected PR move, releasing the film now to re-create doubt where activists have erased it.
Most the victims I talk to are angry about the release of Doubt, none of us will go see it until it is free, and a boycott of Doubt would be a way to show support for the victims of rape by pedophile Catholic priests.
Also from the CNS review: “Though sexual misconduct is at the heart of the story, it is the balance between doubt which, forms the principal thematic subtext....” While you view that thematic subtext, you are getting exactly the message American Catholic Bishops want you to get ... that these rapes are isolated cases and there is doubt whether they even took place ... whether that was producers' and author's intent or not.
“The film contains a discreetly handled sexual abuse theme. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III -- adults.”
Wait until people see some of these case files.
Onward. . .
It may be that Shanley is merely plying an art that is anecdotal and removed from familiar reality, but in such case, it would be largely irrelevant, and not at all praiseworthy, much less prizeworthy. Methinks this playwright is still very much tied to the apron strings of Mother Church.
Udo S
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Lucky for us, Doubt is apparently such a bad movie that not many people will see it or if they see it they will not like it, so the church did not get what it wanted from this suspected PR move, releasing the film now to re-create doubt where activists have erased it.
Also from the CNS review: “Though sexual misconduct is at the heart of the story, it is the balance between doubt which, forms the principal thematic subtext....” While you view that thematic subtext, you are getting exactly the message American Catholic Bishops want you to get ... that these rapes are isolated cases and there is doubt whether they even took place ... whether that was producers' and author's intent or not.
“The film contains a discreetly handled sexual abuse theme. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III -- adults.”
Wait until people see some of these case files.
Onward. . .
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