Sorry, but I strongly disagree. The priest was ruling over those women like they were his slaves. The nuns did all the work, their "papa" was never shown doing anything more than taking scriptures out of context to make himself like a god over the nuns. This is a perfect example of how men in power will always fall to corruption. The "mother" nun and Voichita were the only ones in the first half of the film that showed any true compassion or empathy towards Alina, who just wanted to be loved. Later, as things got worse, the other nuns did show pity for Alina and regret for what they had done. The cause of her death was due to their ignorant blind faith in the priest.
While the doctor at the hospital could have been seen as being just as much to blame, having worked as a volunteer at hospitals and having been hospitalized myself for what they labelled as mental illness through my teenage years, I know from first hand experience hospitals are overly busy, under-staffed and impossible to find peace in. In truth, I am hypoglycemic and they forgot to check my blood but I can not and do not blame them at all.
Alina became too dependent on Voichita, yes, but loneliness, the fear of abandonment and feeling unloved causes people to become desperate, even violent. Are you unable to put yourselves in the shoes/perspective of a woman who has a mother who wants nothing to do with her, a father who killed himself, was raised in an orphanage and in-love with someone who refuses return that love? Have you never felt lonely, abandoned, unloved or confused? If so, you are very blessed and should be very grateful because these feelings are all too common in today's world. Alina's actions are quite common for people over-whelmed by such emotions. The priest made things worse because nothing she did was good enough, he didn't want her there and she knew it, she could sense it. He was inhospitable and that goes against the teaching of Christ. He was more than just a hypocrite, he was the opposite of how someone who dedicates their life to live as an example of Christ should be.
I think the film clearly shows the evils of Catholicism and the men religions put into power. It also is an example of how people with good intentions can do just as much wrong as those with bad intentions if they lack understanding. Your opinion of Alina makes it seem that you lack empathy and compassion. It wasn't that she was egotistical, she lacked love, acceptance and a sense of self. She wasn't much different from the nuns who lacked any sense of individuality and common sense because they had been manipulated by an antichrist.
"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity." - Tolstoy
"...the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve..." - Mark 10:45
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