LATER

Later

The author John Patrick Shanley called his new drama a parable, a parable, which ostensibly dealt with the issue of abuse in the church. Shanley unambiguously defends skepticism in his preface. Both in the epigraphs to the play and in many lines of dialogue he also speaks to the importance of moving away from blind faith towards a healthy sense of skepticism. However, as one of his epigraphs, taken from Ecclesiastes, suggests, “in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” Sister James echoes this sentiment when she admits, near the end of the play, that she “can't sleep at night anymore. Everything seems uncertain to me.” Is gaining experience, with its attendant anxieties, worth sacrificing your innocence?

The film narrates the struggle between Sister Aloysius (Streep), principal of a Catholic school in the Bronx, and Father Brendan (Hoffman), a priest of innovative ideas, suspected of molesting the only black student center. A confrontation based on suspicion and prejudice, based on the statements of the innocent Sister James (Adams), which leads us to meet the boy's mother (Davis) (Brantley, 2004). The film is set in the fall of 1964, at the beginning of a new era that heralds great changes. A time full of uncertainty, as the sermon begins with the film, referring to the Kennedy assassination, but above all to doubt, that unites all human beings "in a bond so strong and supportive as security "itself. More than a mystery to solve, Doubt is a film about the search for truth in a world full of uncertainties.

The problem of methodological doubt is that nobody takes it to extremes. Why, if not the rationalist who questions everything, no doubt is a doubt itself? Simply because no one can doubt everything. To live meaningfully, we must ...