Doubt
Doubt is set in 1964, It is set in a Catholic School with all it’s strict customs. The film is set in a time of political change and the school has just accepted it’s first black student, Donald Miller. The central characters are Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a priest willing to accept change and move the school on, and for want of a better term, ‘his alter ego’, Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), a strict Principal who believes that fear keeps the children disciplined.
Sister James (Amy Adams), a very naïve but enthusiastic young nun, tells Sister Aloysius that she feels Father Flynn is paying a lot of attention to Donald Miller and that after a meeting with Father Flynn she smelt alcohol on Donald Miller’s breath. Upon this news Sister Aloysius sets out on a crusade to remove Father Flynn from the school without any proof.
John Patrick Shanley has adapted Doubt for film from his own stage play, having not seen the stage play and without knowing much about the film other than a basic plot and that it got a few Oscar nominations, I really didn’t know what to expect. In fact, when I heard the plot I thought ‘hmm, not really sure about that one’. I have to say I found Doubt a very engaging and enjoyable film which raises some very interesting questions.
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