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...charming 12-year-old red-headed boy. The film follows Brendan’s journey as he tries to understand what is important, decides who to obey and disobey, and courageously searches for his own path. The authority he has always looked up to is his stern uncle, Abbot Cellach, who prioritizes, above all, the construction of a wall that would protect the abbey against a Viking attack. But Brendan soon meets Aidan, an abbot who believes in finishing and preserving a sacred manuscript. This manuscript will become the Book of Kells, today regarded as Ireland’s finest...
...misunderstanding Moore presents between Cellach and Aidan is the kind that could occur between a Silicon Valley tycoon and a Harvard Classics professor. The two abbots, one prioritizing physical defense and the other prioritizing books, synthesize an urgent dilemma: how does one choose between technological and intellectual development? Moore examines the power of material strength versus the power of ideas, and to what extent one is necessary for the other...
According to Cellach, “It is through the strength of our walls that [others] will come to trust the strength of our books,” and the goal of the construction is “to save civilization, to save our book.” Aidan, however, believes that “people must have books so they may have hope...
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