that there are so few posts on this movie.
I thought it was excellent, and very touching. The only thing I didn't like was the abrubt ending. What they should have done is make this into a full on mini-series. Two hours is just not enough to cover her life. I would have liked to have seen more interaction between her and John Paul the Great, among other things.
Kudos to the director for taking on such a difficult task.
It saddens me that so many people recently have been hating on MT. Where do they get off?
shareI saw this movie recently and yes, I must agree that it is sad to see such an empty board. But I've seen boards with no post ast all.
And I would also like to say that this movie was touching and very beautiful. Olivia Hussey did brilliantly.
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Work is not life. Life is not work.
Ask some of the people Charles Keating defrauded "where they get off". Keating, who stole millions from hapless citizens during the S&L meltdowns of the Eighties, contributed a handy portion of those millions to Mum T's 'mission', presumably on the old principal of buying indulgences to save his black soul from rotting in Hell in the afterlife. Mum T was only too happy to take the funds, although it seems unlikely that even such an unworldly wraith as herself could have been unaware of the massive frauds Keating was participant in, and just what the source of much of those tidy donations originated in, given the blaze of publictiy that surrounded Keating after he was caught and subsequently tried for his criminal malfeasances.
And if she had attempted to claim innocence via ignorance beforehand, she did not have that excuse available to her, once a prosecuting attorney against Keating made it known to her that the funds Keating had donated had their origins in monies stolen from the innocent. Mum T was appealed to on the basis of the undoubtedly true claim that had Jesus accepted a sum of money from a donor who'd subsequently been shown to have obtained the money for the donation by theft and illegal subterfuge, there could be no doubt at all that Jesus would have made all possible haste to see to it that those monies were returned to the victims from whom they'd been stolen (and BTW--much of this stolen money wasn't the loot of wealthy Pharisees--just in case you might think that this would somehow make its 'holy' redistribution okay, were that the case--but from ordinary people, including many elderly who lost their life's savings, never to see that money again, or be in any position to replace it through their labors).
Mum T's response to this information and appeal? As to be expected I suppose, given her character. Nil. She neither returned the sum of monies 'donated' by Keating to their rightful owners (i.e., victims of theft), nor did she respond in any matter other than to arrogantly disregard the request, the rightful comparison to the actions of her Lord under the same circumstances, and the pleas of the victims. No; her holy mission superseded just behavior and freed her from any earthly accoutability as to the sources of her wealth. The monies were never returned, and Mum T made no cooperation with Keating's prosecutors whatsoever, not even to the courtesy of communicating with them at all.
All of this, I might add, has been thoroughly documented and is a matter of record. It can be found on many places on the web, even on some sites whose accounts of Mum T are relatively benign, or disinterested; so don't discount the above as nothing more than the propaganda machinations of her detractors. It was, and remains, a matter of simple fact which goes some way towards illuminating this supposedly 'simple and humble' woman's real mindset.
And that, my dear, is one very salient reason for where those of us who don't much admire the lady "get off" on expressing our justifiable disdain for her actions.
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Actually Lewis, in this instance, your post deserves an answer.
No, I haven't. That simple.
I intensely dislike frauds, particularly frauds who make their business of defrauding the vulnerable; and I dislike them the more intensely when they wrap themselves in the robes of piety and 'God's name' whilst they're about their defrauding.
Christopher Hitchens didn't much like that either, may he rest in peace--and that's why he wrote his book on "Mother"...to call attention to her frauds and falsities in a world where her brand of pious hypocrisy generally goes unchallenged.
Some folks actually just don't like injustice for its own sake, not merely because it's affected them personally. Shocking idea that, I know, but it really is true sometimes in some parts of this world.
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I just found a copy on DVD, and bought it. I will comment on it after.
shareI just bought the dvd, and I'm very glad that I did. This movie was very inspiring and did justice to the great Mother Teresa, in my opinion. Olivia Hussey is an amazing actress!
My IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2599038/
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that there are so few posts on this movie.
I thought it was excellent, and very touching. The only thing I didn't like was the abrubt ending. What they should have done is make this into a full on mini-series. Two hours is just not enough to cover her life. I would have liked to have seen more interaction between her and John Paul the Great, among other things.
Kudos to the director for taking on such a difficult task."
This was filmed as a miniseries. In Italy it runs 3 hrs. The american DVD is slightly less than 2 hrs.