SPOILER ALERT: The "Conclave" chooses a "Pope" who is an hermaphrodite, because hermaphrodites trump transvestites in the LGBTQWXYZ pervert hierarchy.
Is she a Freeper?
Sounds familiar.
Oh... I thought it was a parable about the elevation of that Jesuit Francis to the Holy See. Francis is somewhat lady like.
It was an interesting movie... Right up until the terrible and ill conceived ending.
I don't watch network television, but I am always willing to watch something she is interested in, as long as there aren't any red flags such as a homosexual or Leftist plot, so I sat down to watch with her.
I am not inclined to watch religious movies of any kind if they are being pushed by any of the alphabet networks, but I did like some of the actors in this, and decided to give it a try. I grew up Catholic, and I no longer am part of that church, but I always surprised and disconcerted to see open anti-Catholic prejudice, which I do occasionally see, and I don't like seeing it. (As an aside, to be fair, there is at least one poster on this forum who claims to advocate the Catholic Church but does them no favors in my opinion with decidedly off-putting commentary in threads. )
Well.
I was enjoying the portrayal of the mysterious Catholic Church process of selecting a new Pope, I liked the acting, the cinematography was interesting. So I kept an open mind.
When the Pope dies, they go into a "conclave" to choose a new Pope, and as the Cardinals from all over the world begin arriving and checking in, they find out there is a new Cardinal nobody knew about, and the just-dead Pope had appointed him without telling anyone else, and he had a genuine signed document, so...they had to admit him.
He is a new Cardinal, a man who appears to be in his thirties or early forties, and his country is...Afghanistan.
And he has Marxist views.
Then, against all odds, somehow HE gets elected as the new "Pope", and after the vote it comes out at the end of the movie that he went to Switzerland for a workup for an operation that he ended up not having. When he (Cardinal Lawrence, played by Ralph Fiennes, was running the Papal selection process) asked the mysterious new Cardinal what was for, this is Wikipedia's account of the end of the movie:
Lawrence discovers Benitez's canceled medical visit was for a laparoscopic hysterectomy, suggesting the new Pope may be transgender. When asked by Lawrence for a private explanation, Innocent explains that he is in fact intersex and was assigned male at birth, but he did not know he also had a uterus and ovaries until a recent appendectomy. The late Pope knew about it but hid the secret, making Benitez a cardinal in pectore regardless of his condition. Benitez goes on to explain he chose to keep his female organs, stating, "I am what God made me." Agreeing to keep Benitez's secret and entrust God divinely inspired the results, Lawrence listens to the crowds cheer the new pope's election.
I was phenomenally disgusted. They have to work it in all the time. Everywhere. THAT is why I generally avoid and don't watch network television, or things made by Disney, Apple TV, or Netflix.
Stanley Tucci makes me ill.
I’m not going to watch the Conclave even though I have Peacock on that yearly deal of 20 bucks.
But I did see the Godfather III and I didn’t think it was anti-Catholic.
Vatican “intrigue” may be fictionalized but it doesn’t mean such “intrigue” doesn’t have an historical basis.
I did watch Slow Horses this weekend as Apple+ had a free preview weekend.
Now that’s a clever show.
I’ve seen a few ads for the film and the short clips they showed said “Catholic bashing” to me. Now I’ll know to avoid it like the Plague.
There’s plenty of anti-Catholic stuff out there. One series streaming is Harrison Ford’s 1923.
We never got past the trailer, where a student is supposedly abused by a nun, then the student beats the hell out of the nun.
I am of the era where teachers enforced discipline with a ruler or putting someone in the corner. I suspect nuns of that era also used this sort of discipline, but nothing so harsh that a kid would rise up and beat someone. For that matter kids of that era were quite obedient to parents, police and the church as well as respecting elders.
The drama is left wing propaganda showing nuns were evil and it’s OK for a kid to beat the hell out of a nun. THIS IS WRONG!
No doubt, in the sequel, the fake pope will become pregnant.
I watched The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968). A far better movie.
So...what is the genetic characteristics of the papem they habemused?
It sounds like “The Crying Game” but the twist happens at the end instead of the middle of the film.
So, it was about some freak who becomes pope? And, that's unusual? Why?
Wow. Satan Movie.
Who watches this crap.
The current Pope is doing far more damage to the “Catholic” brand than this movie...