The film The Mission was written by Robert Bolt and was produced in 1986. Fernando Ghia produced it. The movie was about a man who was trying to start a mission in the new world when he meets a former mercenary who is willing to renounce his former ways and become a priest. The Spanish try to take the land from them saying they own it under the Treaty of Madrid. When the Indians refuse to leave their home the Spanish slaughters them and takes it from them.
The Indians seemed to live in fear of the white man, they had to do many things in order to be able to run and hide from them. The Indians had to kill all but one of their children, the reason? They couldn't run from the white man with more than one child. The Indians also seemed to have an affinity for music, that is how father Gabriel kept them from kil
The mission told me that it is okay to follow what you believe even if nobody else is behind you. I enjoyed the movie overall but some parts seemed to get a little boring, I especially liked the part when Captain Rodrigo was carrying the bag of armor up the hill and when he got to the top he was "reborn" under god. I would rate the movie 3 1/2 out of 5 stars because it was very slow and then it seemed to skip through some things all of a sudden they were fighting. Despite this I still enjoyed the movie.
This movie taught me that during the colonization of the new world was to spread their own religion but came in second place to greed and politics. I think this movie showed that very well, and when it came to their land the Spanish were willing to kill anybody in order to get it. The age of Discovery/Exploration did a lot
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