The goal of "Moral Dilemmas in Film" blog is to stimulate discussion after viewing quality films showing situations of characters, real and fictional, who must make and live with ethical decisions. For example, in the first film, After the Wedding, one character with status, money, and power, thinks that he has the right and duty to "buy" another man to replace him after his death from terminal cancer. Does anyone have the right to manipulate another person's life decisions and goals? The man who is to be "bought" must decide whether he will allow another man to plan out his future, even though the offer made is one that he feels he cannot refuse because of its benefits to all the people he loves.
The first film discussed is After the Wedding, with the pre-discussion notes and discussion summary posted here. The second film viewed is The Mission, with Jeremy Irons and Robert DeNiro, a film narrating the difficult political situation of a Jesuit mission in eighteenth-century South America that must be closed down due to the Treaty of Madrid of 1850. Should the Jesuit priests abandon the Indians who have come to trust and rely on them, so that these Indians will be subject to enslavement by the conquering European powers? These questions are posed in the discussion and within the blog itself.
If you have seen these films, either at the film viewing session in the Garden Room of the Chapel, or in another setting, please feel free to post your responses to the comments made by me, Lynn Myrick, the chaplaincy intern who is coordinating this program, or to the remarks of others.
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