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I have to say this movie taught me a lot when I was a kid.
At school I was taught how some shots were called and there were two directors constantly mentioned : Orson Welles and Sergei M. Eisenstein.
Nazarin is some kind of saint,he wants to live in life exactly how Christ taught man to do.But it's too late:now the Catholic Church is between the hands of a wealthy bourgeoisie,the bishops live in luxury and don't give a damn about the poor and the sick.That's why our hero can't follow the way his hierarchy asks him to follow.So he divests himself of everything,and on his way to purity,he's joined by some kind of Mary Magdelene and a woman who's attracted by him sexually (the scene between this girl and her fiancé is telling).In Spain (it was the late fifties),they thought Nazarin was a Christian movie!Knowing Luis Bunuel,it was downright incongruous:all his work is anticlerical to a fault.Comparing Nazarin and his "holy women" to Jesus is a nonsense.On Nazarin's way,only brambles and couch grass grow.His attempt at helping working men on the road is a failure,he's chased out as a strike-breaker.All his words amount to nothing.At the end of the journey,he's arrested and offered a pineapple by a woman(Bunuelian sexual symbol).
There are numerous messages in this movie, the least of which is that academic science must always be ready to revise what's being taught.
In this almost two hour documentary which goes very quickly, his son, Nathaniel Kahn, explores his father's life from Estonia to the slums of North Philadelphia to the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia where he studied and taught.
It stars James Woods and Cuba Gooding JR and has the synopsis of a taught political thriller.
They're unabashed horn dogs/corn dogs and Mia, who witnesses them on the prowl, decides that they need to be taught a lesson, dammit.
I Myself born and bread in America and through my religious classes and teachings I have been taught to cherish my country and work to contribute to the society.
Now, I respect the guy's opinion and faith, I myself am not, at this state, believer of the taught Christian doctrine.
I am a Catholic taught in parochial elementary schools by nuns, taught by Jesuit priests in high school & college.
Rather, this is the tale of a Khmer country girl who's grandmother has taught her a little witchcraft along with a few odd (but specific) rules: "don't walk under a clothesline," "don't eat raw meat," and "don't accept money for your powers."
The show taught me my numbers (The Count), spelling (the Muppet), and about life.
Now, there are NO concepts taught, minimal counting, only the occasional mention of the alphabet.
I'm a Christian who generally believes in the theology taught in Left Behind.
Christopher Durang must have been taught by a memorably awful nun, because he just can't let go of the concept.
She gets some bad advice, hangs out with some bad boys and apparently family planning wasn't being taught at her school.
The misuse of peoples time, the misuse of energy, and the waste of whatever type of educational system that taught her how to read and write.
How Disney can you get? Preppy rich girls act like idiots, buy a bunch of stuff, and get taught a lesson.
When his "father" kicks him out on the street he must learn to fend for himself with nothing but the chauvinistic outlook on life that his youth has taught him... that and an unfathomable, nearly mystical level of charm and dumb luck.
Around this character, a taught, gripping plot has been constructed, and it's also a plus that the action never leaves America (whereas Stanley Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket', to name just one other film of a similar type, lost focus once the action shifted to Asia).
The Most valuable thing his unemotional father taught him was, "Never quit".
Also, I wanted to add, I found the episode, "Wild Wild Sabrina" where she is taught about the importance of rules, to be insulting.
The earlier students were all taught in a different style snake, centipede, scorpion, lizard, toad, while the last student was taught a little in each style.
After his latest play bombs, Sidney finds himself at a low; and this is not helped when a play named Deathtrap; written by an amateur he taught, arrives on his doorstep.
This book is even a taught as a text book at some universities.
I am from Africa and looking at that movie taught me some things that I didn't even know about Africa.
Through the use of his only fully-functioning limb, his left leg, he taught himself to write and paint, both skills he developed expertly.
The principals and moral convictions in Purple Rain are quite strong and if more movies would rely on the basics we are taught as young children we would have a better all around environment seeing that art reflects life which reflects art.
Remember what she was taught about the mark's mindset when the con is over?
I recommend everyone to see this when the opportunity presents itself, no matter what religious path he or she may be walking, this only instills one with more determination to live the life that we should with true values of love and forgiveness as the Savior taught us to do.
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