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Just 20 minutes away, there's a Catholic service being held. The priest stands at the altar, speaking Portuguese to his congregation. They respond to the priest's questions with Portuguese prayers memorized years...
...candles are lit. The room smells faintly of incense. The priest stands at the altar, clothed in a white robe. An intricate purple-patterned tapestry is strung across the altar behind...
...banker of Bedford Falls. And no one here, no gov jock or pre-med or final club frequenter wants to be George Bailey. No one wants to suffer and sweat and barely scrape by, to give up youthful potential in favor of adult burdens, to sacrifice dreams on the altar of necessity. No one wants to be at the end of their rope on Christmas Eve, staring down into dark water and needing a little bit of divine intervention...
...films were, he claimed, all based in reality. Thus we see a shrine to the Virgin in a slaughterhouse ("El Bruto," 1952), a bloody statue of Jesus carried onto a bustling streetcar ("Illusion Travels by Streetcar," 1953), and a man viewing a priest's ritual cleaning and kissing of altar boys' feet leading to sexually charged stares between the man and the woman who will become his beloved ("El/This Strange Passion," 1952). The coup de grace is delivered in "Archibaldo de la Cruz" when our hero, an aspiring (but terribly clumsy) serial killer, frightens a nun so badly she plunges...
Standing beside a flower-covered altar in honor of survivors of abuse and sexual violence, performers encouraged the audience of approximately 40 students to join them in singing, "Silence no more. I was born to roar...