![]() It’s no coincidence that the movie borrows stylistic tropes - including disembodied voiceover, somewhat disorienting flashbacks, and a free-floating wide-angle camera - from “The Tree of Life” director Terrence Malick, who has wrestled with such theological concerns to varying degrees in his last half-dozen features. But this is not a sensationalistic film in the slightest, choosing instead to dramatize the deep feelings - conversion, doubt, forgiveness - that tend to defy easy representation in film. ![]() ![]() Director Andrew Hyatt (“Full of Grace”) does show one believer torched alive, as well as a few others still smoldering above the horrified pedestrians below. This was a period during which Christians were openly persecuted, crucified, burned at the stake, and thrown to the lions, all of which sounds like ample opportunity for a more excessive filmmaker to focus on the sort of details that have fueled many a blockbuster before (from “Caligula” to “Gladiator”).
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