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Marcelino pan y vino (1955)
A film for the gentle-hearted
A baby loses his parents and is left at the door to a monastery. The monks take him in and he grows into a mischievous but essentially good little boy. One day he sneaks into the attic and sees a life-sized image of Jesus on the cross...
For pre-teens and younger, a parent should probably watch it with them, since some children will be disturbed by the ending. With understanding, this film helps the viewer to grow a little in faith, hope and love.
... well, that is all I really wanted to say, but IMDb now requires ten lines of text for a review. I noticed the early reviews of Marcelino were extremely negative. If you have a lot of anger towards Christ or the Church, you will *not* like this film since it shows different types of people turning their hearts towards Jesus to varying degrees. This is not sinister propaganda, but the way the world really is. Christians are not the monsters you imagine them to be. If the Nazis *had* made films like this, as one reviewer suggested, instead of the inspirations to resentment and violence they actually did make, the world might have been a better place. Peace to all.
Starship Troopers (1997)
Contemptuous Sneer at a Good Book
The book Starship Troopers is an unusual paean to military virtue. It depicts an idealistic, puritanical society defended by a military with a high esprit de corps. In contrast, the movie depicts a cynical, sleazy society defended by troops that laugh when one of their commanding officers is killed. An ugly movie, one of the very few I've seen bad enough to make me leave the theater before the movie ended.