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...jealousy of Othello with the impetuous tyranny of Macbeth, we meet him again as a reformed, peaceful hero who has done penance for 16 years. And he is a hero, despite all his early evildoing. As the Luke gospel says: "Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance." When Leontes reappears, his blond hair now whitened. Kerr makes him immediately sympathetic and speaks beautifully and movingly. When the "statue" moves to greet him (and Shakespeare tells us not to worry how we got to this point...
Catacomb Christians. The Ninety and Nine takes its title from the book of Luke: "Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." In due course the sinner appears, but the book's hero is on the scene from Page One, a Roman Catholic priest, about to travel the age-old road to martyrdom. Jesuit Father Janos is a good priest and a soldier of Christ in his heart, but he has had to fight few battles for the Christian faith in Roman Catholic Hungary. Then...
...interest had been. In the end, still trying vaguely to do right, he gets mixed up in a complicated mess, shoots a cop, is fatally wounded. Unless the title is completely ironical, this finale must be the act of redemption which causes joy in Heaven "over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance...
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