Movie Reviews – Movies That Teach The Value Of Faith
Two powerful movies recently released on DVD to illustrate the importance of faith and virtue in leading a good life.
A ‘Mother Teresa’ tells the life story of one of the world’s best known and most admired women, “End of the Spear” is the story of five American missionaries to the Waodani Indians of Ecuador jungle.
Mother Teresa was an Albanian-born nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity. Known as “Angel of Mercy”, many people saw as the incarnation of a holy life. Her work among the poverty of Calcutta made her one of the most famous in the world. She founded her order in 1950 to care whom he calls “the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel rejected, ignored, forgotten in society, people which have become a burden to society and are rejected by all. ”
Golden Globe-winner Olivia Hussey illuminates the holy woman in history to “Mother Teresa,” a feature film by Fox Home Entertainment DVD. A shrewd diplomat and an indomitable force, Mother Teresa would not accept what others thought impossible, fearlessly fighting for the love and oblivion.
In 1956 a small group of missionaries sought to illuminate the darkest of Ecuador cannibal tribes, but by his compassion, were murdered without mercy. Years later, the wives of the dead returned to the village to continue their husbands’ missionary work, to bring their children to live among the tribes in the hope of forgiveness through the natives might find faith.
Now, Jim Hanon tells this remarkable true story of fear, faith and forgiveness in the “End of the Spear”, based on the book “Through Gates of splendor” by Elisabeth Elliot, widow of one of the missionaries.
The film tells the story of the Waodani warrior Mincayani, who kills Steve Saint’s father and four other missionaries. Steve returns to the Waodani as an adult and encounters Mincayani they face with the meaning of life and death of the father of Steve and other men who were killed. Through Mincayani, Steve comes to forgive, through Steve, Mincayani comes to understand the teachings of the Bible and a path to a virtuous life.