🎥 The Mission (1986) +

🎥 Director (Author)

Roland Joffé

📖 Plot Summary

The Mission is based on events surrounding the Treaty of Madrid in 1750, in which Spain ceded part of Jesuit Paraguay to Portugal. A significant subtext is the impending suppression of the Jesuits, of which Father Gabriel, who is a Jesuit, is warned by the film's narrator, Cardinal Altamirano. Altamirano, speaking in hindsight in 1758, corresponds to the actual Andalusian Jesuit Father Luis Altamirano, who was sent by Jesuit Superior General Ignacio Visconti to Paraguay in 1752 to transfer territory from Spain to Portugal. He oversaw the transfer of seven missions south and east of the Río Uruguay that had been settled by Guaraní and Jesuits in the 17th century. As compensation, Spain promised each mission 4,000 pesos—‌fewer than 1 peso for each of the approximately 30,000 Guaraní of the seven missions—‌while the cultivated lands, livestock and buildings were estimated to be worth 7–16 million pesos.

🧠 Themes & Ideas

2 main ideas in film for me:

• Rodriges changed life.
• Fight or not Fight in finish part of film
• Evil last tolk.

💭 Personal Impression

I love ease way to show some of important Christian ideas.