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Back Street (1932)
This movie is a powerful representation of love's sacrifices and serves as a metaphor (back street) for double standards
This dramatic love story shows how a woman sacrifices all of her career, love, and marriage choices for just one man, who makes her his only secret mistress. The Back Street tells the story of double standards: being left out, being left down, being just a second priority, and not a life priority. Even when she decides to live without him, the successful businessman, with his private principles, lures her back into the relationship with emotional blackmail. She stays in her room and gives up her job to wait for him to give her more false hopes and promises. When he does not spend time with her, she realizes how much she gave up. Still, she believes in him, supports him, and loves him unconditionally. Her biggest compromise and sacrifice are seen in the scene when she finds out about his illness from the newspaper. Later on, when she witnesses his death through the phone call. The last thought, the crucial "what if things were different?" is her last shared living illusion.
La viaccia (1961)
A city path leading back home
The movie presents various viewpoints on life's paths. Property issues and a desire to succeed in a big city are a part of social dynamics that create tension between rural and urban life. Both lifestyles lead to dramatic dialogues that arise from family disputes and financial issues. In between, one can follow a path of love and the main film poster still depicts the layers of emotional seduction. A beautiful woman's room in the city becomes a locus where intimate and hurtful relationship took place. After discovering that his choices in love and money can cause both emotional and physical pain, the main character returns home with a valuable life lesson conclusion.
Risen (2016)
Not only a story about faith, but a true change in perspective
It is not only a biblical story about faith that gathered first Apostles to witness Christ's Resurrection, but a real evidence how much profound the story of Jesus's crucifixion is. The main character through the lense of just an ordinary yet man on function serving the empire as a tribune shows the weaknesses of the whole system. It is based on cruel investigation, demanding those who already followed Jesus to be prosecuted, punished and scared with the possibility of another crucifixion. The search for the real evidence of Jesus's death, seen in massive exhumation of burried bodies, cruel interrogations, lead the main character to pure witness Christ's Resurrection, withing His circle, and in the crucial dialogue with Jesus, the tribune still finds himself doubting, still questioning. Those earthy doubts lead him first to give credit to Roman god to prosecute the new Faith, but later on finds himself to witness Christ's life and miracles. The true change in perspective is seen in the end, in his own words and choice, for he is truly changed.
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Not only a story about one closed sanctuary
This is a story that can be read on many levels. It is not only about the young ladies whose lives led them to experience the most unfortunately lack of any kinds of support, but lead them to experience the sanctuary as a place of fear, anger, blame, humiliation. Human definition of holy help turned into a psychological game where in the name of faith and religion was allowed to throw tantrums onto most innocent actions that were seen and defined as sins. Not only this is a story about one closed sanctuary that keeps the human definition of sin as a ultimate justification for abuse, but this is also a story about authorities that remain as anything but moral themselves.