Three details about Los Domingos that reveal it is a film critical of the church

As you already know, this movie, about a minor studying at a religious school who wants to become a nun, to the dismay or indifference of her distraught family, is so hilarious, so vivid, it allows itself to be completed by our traumas, our desires, our belief systems.

Is this sirloin dish delicious, or is salivating over it an act of sadism?

All I know is that it depends on whether we are vegan or not.

I eat meat, but I also pay attention to spiritual outbursts. “Let’s talk.”

What a delicate delicacy Sunday And how much height does it bring to the discussion? Activate some of my pleasure points. Devout Catholics say this is a pious work (of course, this is due to the shameful cruelty with which the fiction has accustomed them to cultural ridicule: Celebrate respectful treatment of the rare.).

Atheists say this is a horror movie.

I’m not one or the other. I’m by no means an atheist, but I’m also not religious in any orthodox or institutional sense. Therefore, I contemplate the beauty of the cathedral, make love, awaken Unamuniana, and between two waters I write: paco.

Perhaps that’s why I see this movie the way I see it. Understanding our own and other people’s emotions, interested in the mysteries behind things, but critical of the official church, its elitist aura, its constant finger of condemnation, its bastion of anti-intellectualism and its doctrines that impoverish us.

Spanish catechesis never ends.

How and when can we tell when Luis de Azua is questioning religion and its tentacles?

Now, there’s a spoiler.

1. Language trap

I seriously doubt that God called the girl during the approximately 2 hours of footage. In other words, I value possibilities. Who knows what?

But something happens when the girl loses her grandmother, that is, her second mother (she had already lost her first mother and was already completely orphaned due to her lazy father, who thinks only about his new girlfriend). He is on his knees mourning the dead. Look for comfort. And experience inspiration.

Despair dwells in the girl’s eyes (You also need to know why God prefers to appear when you are hopeless rather than when you are hopeful).

Despair is an impulse and a stepping stone.

I don’t know if the girl can see or if she’s fighting to see, but she paints God’s scars on her heart, like someone screaming in a fenced-in garden. What should we expect? We know almost nothing about what we can’t see. Just that it exists.

Then a girl will talk to you. bring the action. Send words of love to the Lord. It’s so beautiful and radical and so unique. This is the first time we hear her actually speak throughout the entire movie. the first time he expressed his feelings fluently. It’s about time, damn it.

She wants to be looked at by him. Now that almost everyone has abandoned her, she wants to be loved by Jesus. She is alone and floating in anxiety. A dream of holding hands. She needs God. Otherwise, she will be alone forever, because the world is not enough. Really, is the world good enough for anyone? I don’t know.

I’m moved when I hear her story. When that girl takes the reins of the speech, it clears my mind and makes me believe. I think she is autonomous. She thinks for herself and feels for herself.

Man is his word. There is freedom in human language. When you create your own talk, you’re the only one. It is the only picture of our brain and heart.

You know you are not tamed because you choose your vocabulary and command it to exist through your mouth. This is why dictatorships have the concept of prohibition.. Forbidden words. The government of language is the government of women and men.

I think about all this while listening to her, and CompletionI feel safe and free with this girl. The girl is not captured, I tell myself, the insight and passion is hers and genuine, not a copy of a spiritual advisor or the voice of an ancestor.

But then the girl finishes her speech…and starts it all over again, word for word exactly the same! He repeats it in blocks. It’s a litany! Those are learned words: tired, abused. Words planted. words of others. Sectarian word, zombie.

Here I understand everything with horror. A girl was kidnapped. He doesn’t even have the freedom to choose the words that make him tremble with love.. Nothing was his anymore, not even the words he said to himself. He has lost his individuality. she is sociable he is a victim

She looks at the cross and says very eloquently of herself, weak and helpless, without firm roots. “You are my father, you are my father.” Okay. After the officer fails, God becomes his adoptive father. God doesn’t move. God does not leave. Not him.

think about what he said goethe. Feeling loved is more powerful than feeling strong. Of course, humans are wonderful creations. Without love, he will become pregnant with it.

2. Subtle Inquisition

As with the study of language perversion, I listen carefully to how the spiritual advisor and the abbot speak to the girl. They gained his trust behind the backs of his family, guardians.

How clearly do we understand that it is unacceptable for adults to touch the private parts of minors? But if the influence is verbal, how many questions arise about the adult’s close relationship with the child or adolescent?. The protagonist has been secretly talking to these church members since he was 12 years old. Did they help her? Did they drive? Did they love her? Did they hire her?

There are only two lines of dialogue in the movie that you have to hold to get to the truth. And both are ruled by questions. Neither the advisor nor the abbot directly tells the girl what she must do or believe. But they take her to a place underground.

Ah, I think so. What intense curiosity these people have, and so many questions, one after another! A somewhat tricky but ambiguous question sweetly drives the girl into a corner. They subtly accompany her, without imposing on her.

They’re both really smart. Great interviewers! There is much to learn from them.

What an inquisitor, I say to myself. I’ll think about the Inquisition later. When you smile, the little pieces come together.

Religious men and girls don’t have real conversations. They lead the investigation. she answers.

3. “I pray for you”: Forgiveness or pride?

Another moment (another detail) where this movie made me take an attitude.

It’s depressing to think about the coldness of breeding.. The girl does nothing for anyone. She’s not worried about anyone but herself. Her aunt, sister, grandmother, friends and choir boy worry about her. My father made it very clear (he wasn’t there to talk either), “The world doesn’t revolve around you.”

The girl is lost in thought. He can’t look around. she is blind It’s a big wound. As the film progresses, he becomes more and more dissatisfied and becomes more selfish. She has no kindness. It turns out that he talks too much about love, but does not know how to put it into practice.. Daughter, please wake up.

A nun ruminates. Is God good in separating us from others? Would it be desirable to have a God who isolates us and makes us feel chosen (as part of an elite or part of society)? called) and we stop listening to the pain of others.

Why does God seek us for Himself? Why doesn’t God want us to increase our love and make other people’s lives better? How good are missionary nuns! That’s when I start getting serious.

At the end of the film, the girl has already become a sociopath. The aunt, who has tried to respect her process and poured herself into her love (after all, it is she who carries her, picks her up, supports her, takes care of her), is being abused. she is alienated. Ignored. Ignored.

She explodes in frustration and feels like her heart is about to break from the pain. And the girl saw that she was crying, but the muscles of her face did not move at all. “I’ll pray for you,” he tells her. And he leaves. What does this girl know about mercy? Did you understand anything?

In this last image, I have Catholic friends who are finding anger and forgiveness, anger and peace. I disagree. They take it too literally. The girl is arrogant and feels morally superior.

Which God makes it superior to the rest of creation?

The girl calmly treats established theories. Unification of the old regime. It is said that there is no doubt about it. “That’s how I feel, and that’s the reality.” There’s nothing to discuss here, nothing more to say.

I think the reason people like organized religion so much is for the same reason they like dogs (more than humans). That’s because you don’t have to stop and negotiate anything. Ideas and criticism are out of place. have a duty to obey.

However, in religious matters, people are dogs, and the God of the church is the master.