Calles stayed as a potent political figure for years, though, and founded the political party that became the modern PRI, which ruled most of Mexico for about 70 years and is likely to regain the presidency (unfortunately).
Yes, the movie is absolutely worth watching.
That the Cristero War produced canonized saints and blesseds
should be a good lesson to us about the importance of
standing up for religious freedom
and witnessing for Christ.
The reference given is this blog from the rag US Catholic: uscatholic.org/blog/2012/05/rifle-crucifix
Wow. That would be amazing to be related to a saint! Also you said he/she was beatified a saint. Do you mean he/she was canonized a saint or are they a blessed?
It was out of the first run theatres here last week.
THIS
I have seen the movie twice.
Unfortunately, it is now out of all the first run theaters in Chicago and is back to very limited distribution. I checked the newspaper just now and it is playing in three theaters
and our metropolitan area is 10 million, with several million Catholics.
It will probably be out of theaters here late next week. You can always buy or rent the DVD.
It is definitely worth watching. That is so amazing that some of your relatives fought with the Cristeros. You should be proud of them. As far as I know the movie is historically accurate. There were alot of different characters, as another poster pointed out, however I didn’t find it hard to follow. I did have trouble keeping the names straight, but that’s me for you.
The Bible says there is a time for peace and a time for war.What is sad is that most Americans and even most Mexicans don’t know what sort of man he was. The same sort of man who came to power in Spain, but who were overthrown by Franco. Such information is concealed because of anti-Catholicism.
The critics are anti-Catholic. The McClatchy critic --who may be a liberal Catholic–dismisses it as propoganda. But it depicts Calles as he was and shows what he actually did, without turning him into a devil. Very much like Lenin, or the socialists who took over Spain.
I would have focused more on Gonzalez, the spiritual leader of the Cristianos. Once they took him out, it became just another civil war.
I would not dismiss all critics of the film as anti-Catholic. I didn’t think it was that great of a film and I’m a very faithful Catholic. I’m of a minority I know. I believe that a lot of critics did not like the quality of the film making and find it artistically lacking. I found the film lacking in character development and found the overall narritive confusing and did not really think the transformation of the charcters to be very convincing. I did not think it a bad film just not a great one.It reminded me of Braveheart in many aspects. I would like to see the same subjet matter done in a better film. Maybe an inspiring documentry. I don’t endorse the film as one to watch or one to avoid. Take it or leave it. Not sure it will appeal to non-Catholics. A good and important subject matter does not make a great film.