The Jesuit Republic and Brother Care in The Mission: An Allegory of the Conquest
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jay Hansford C. Vest
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 25-57
Description
Review of the film, The Mission, that contends the underlying message in it is to free the colonizers of their guilt and doubt, which undermines the film's central allegory of physical and spiritual genocide of conquered Native Americans.