Monday, January 10, 2022
To honor Sidney Poitier we watched "The Lilies of the Field" last night. What an odd movie. I don't think I knew, or at least I didn't remember, that the nuns were East German refugees, which gives the whole thing a strange spin- they escaped godless Communism and that alone seems to reinforce their faith. More than that, though, Who is Homer Smith? Where did he come from? Does he actually experience any sort of spiritual growth or transformation? From the outset he is so easily persuaded to stay on that we have to question whether he has changed at all by the movie's end.
// posted by Bill @ 11:33 AM 
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