What do these quotes mean in the movie "The Mission"?
Interpret these quotes from the movie in your own words.
1. Hontar “We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.”
Altamirano “No, Senor Hontar. Thus have we made the world… thus have i made it.”
2. Gabriel “If might is right, then love has no place in the world, it may be so. But I dont have the strength to live in a world like that, Rodrigo.”
3. Altamirano “So, your Holiness, now your priests are dead, and I am left alive. But in truth it is I who am dead, and they who live. For as always, your Holiness, the spirit of the dead will survive in the memory of the living.”
4. Altamirano “Your Holiness, a surgeon to save the body must often hack off a limb. But in truth nothing could prepare me for the beauty and the power of the limb that I had come here to sever.”
5. Altamirano “Your Holiness, a surgeon to save the body must often hack off a limb. But in truth nothing could prepare me for the beauty and the power of the limb that I had come here to sever.”
6. Altamirano “With an orchestra, the Jesuits could have subdued the entire continent.”
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I need to ask a question before responding: Is this a homework assignment? I ask because I had to watch this movie for a religion class last year. (Great movie btw)
Its kind of a homework assignment. These are only like a quarter of the questions, there were a lot more. These are the only ones i dont underrstand. This is for 10th grade world history and i agree very good movie.
Lots of deep and profound observations here. I may have to watch this movie now. I won’t bother trying to explain the relevance and meanings here, it would take up too much space, time and backtracking of other explanations, but I’m sorry for you if you don’t get the deeper meanings here.
Not to mention that most of us have an aversion to doing your homework for you.
Naga.
One of my favorite movies. Too complicated to answer here. Sorry, I know that doesn’t answer your questions. I was Jesuit trained in HS, so I recommend reading some of their writing.
#2 The saying “might is right” refers to an ethical system whereby whatever you are able to achieve is good and right by the very token that you’re able to achieve it. For example, if I have the balls and weaponry to stick-up a corner store, then so be it. This ethical system either assumes no divine (God or gods), or it assumes a divine that would not let bad things happen (thus, anything that happens is necessarily good). There’s no external sense of right or wrong in this system: just what is and what isn’t.
Love, on the other hand, is a concept that requires a certain grace and mercy, a certain humbling, a certain desire to serve. The two concepts clash, becuase how can you love in a world that is so self-serving as to allow anyone to do anything they can do? How can you bring yourself to love someone in a world of “might is right” – how can you spend a second looking away from yourself to look at another, when doing so poses such a risk to yourself? If “might is right” you must always watch your back or else you’ll be killed for what you have.
Finally, wouldn’t it be difficult to live in a world of “might is right”? To live in a world without love – where you are always alone, looking out for yourself? I think so.
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