/lit/ - Literature

>>19982222
>the struggle of a good man trying to be virtuous while drowning in a modern world of secularism and cynicism
But that's not the meaning of the movie

>>19982222
Mark Samuels' A Pilgrim Stranger

>>19982222
Also, I recommend Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest for another similar movie.

>>19982236
>>19982228
Thx anon, I’ll take a look

>>19982222
got EXACTLY what you need, OP. it also has the hilarious somewhat cynical moments, and full of sovl. i rate it 9/10

>>19982222

>>19982236
diary of a country priest is a magnificent book by Bernanos, add that (and his Under Satan's Sun too) to the clerical struggle kino lit. i am a minor specialist in it

>>19982224
What is the meaning?

>>19982258
Isn't he just taking the piss on hegelians?

>>19982258
>>19982254
Thx anons, will look them up

>>19982222
checked and pic related

>>19982297
/lit/ continues to deliver, thanks bros

>>19982264
>Under Satan’s Sun
This looks really great too, thx anon

>>19982333
Bernanos is criminally underrated...
another movie about the struggle between virtue and world full of vice: Priest 1994

>>19982340
What is it with all these films starring very attractive young priests? Has anyone honestly seen this in real life before? The whole circumstance just seems highly unlikely

>>19982390
the dark-haired strikingly handsome priest seems to be a common trope, yeah
> the exorcist
> the quill 2000
> midnight mass
> priest 1994
> The Crime of Padre Amaro
to name a couple. do people just subconsciously recognise this is the absolute peak male performance?

>>19982297
I got a chuckle when the communist euthanasia squads appeared at the scene of the accident instead of paramedics

>>19982645
just put on your mask and breathe the gas bro

>>19982222
Book of the New Sun

>>19982626
OP here, I forgot The Exorcist was originally a novel also. Gonna add that to my list

>>19982272
The satire just enframes the more important and serious parts of the book.

>>19982626
who is this

>>19982626

>>19982224
it kinda is. he was punished because of the evil of other men but he willingly goes to it. it's a very on the nose Christ allegory in a lot of ways

>>19982222
the idiot by dosto is exactly this

>>19982727
some 20th century seminarians
>>19982731
i recognise that guy

>>19982297
This. This books needs to be read alongside 1984 and Brave New World.

>>19982731
The Catholic Gigachad.

>>19982264
Under Satan's Sun was a mess with no sense of direction that left me very disturbed. It was great. I think Bernanos wasn't well in the head when he wrote that.

>>19982222

It sounds a bit like The Diary of a Country Priest, which is excellent, but the titular priest's trials have more to do with human nature/small town intrigues than secularism.

>>19982707
Book of the LONG Sun is literally about a priest discovering the truth about his world and rediscovering his own faith.

>>19982701
Zoz

>>19982626
it's an easy visual symbol of a man devoted to his work. basically the same as the starving artist, the lone hitman, and the relentless detective

R. S. THOMAS

>>19983548
>The Catholic Gigachad.