Doubt - Meryl Streep

Taks

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Just finished watching Doubt, starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and really enjoyed it, however dark the subject matter/context.

Anyone else seen it/liked it?

Do you think Father Flynn was guilty?
 
just saw it recently for the first time in fact.

I was getting into it, quite intense and such.

but it ended as i was getting into it! to me, it felt like half a movie.

the last scene where we find the lead character in Doubt herself - Meryl Streep apparently didnt want that scene in it as she felt it ruined the piece
 
Great film. I hadn't heard of it until I stumbled accross it on sky recently. Sadly, films like this rarely get the recognition they deserve because they don't star Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise ( or any other overrated box office draw) and there's no special effects or animation just old fashioned requirements like a good, thought provoking story and great acting.
 
it was nominated for something for the Oscars that year, i believe. its my main reason that i was drawn to it.
basically, i am so behind on recent decent films over the last couple of years - i am going to go back to every Oscar nominated movie for most categories and watch if i havent alreay. going to go back to 2000 and go from there. Good place to start i think. just got to join something like Lovefilm.

but a mate obsessed with Meryl Streep threw this at me. if this wasnt on my list to see, i properly wouldnt of seen it.
 
A great film. I think it's definately an actor's film.

I don't think Father Flynn did it. She seemed to have a vendetta against the guy and possibly men in general. Certainly there seems to be a distrust of men within the church.

When she was talking to Sister James, Sister James said that Sister Aloysius should report her fears and Sister Aloysius said "Here, there's no man I can go to, men run anything. We are going to have to stop him ourselves"

I think Father Flynn was les convetional that her and she didn't like it. When he covered for Donald who had been drinking that is the opposite to what she would have done. he represented a change in the church she couldn't deal with or approve of.
 
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