I bet most of you have seen these images somewhere sometime. It seems to be a trend to shoot a “Last Supper” image with the cast of popular films and TV Shows. Typically, they will copy the “original” painting made by Leonardo Da Vinci between 1495 and 1498, which looks like this:
According to Wikipedia, the picture depicts the event narrated in the Gospel of John, chapter 13 verse 21, where Jesus announces that one of the twelve apostles would betray him. I will quote Wikipedia’s entry on the grouping of figures:
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Yesterday evening we saw the film “Karol: A Man Who Became Pope” from 2005 in the Parish House. It was a film night organised by the local Student Parish. I didn’t have high expectations of the film, I only sat there because I helped organising the whole thing, not because I think that a film about Karol Wojtyila would be interesting. But I have to say that I had to revise that idea completely after watching. I never thought I would leave the Parish House inspired like I did!
I was so sucked into it that I totally forgot where I was, I felt I was part of the story. The quality of the story telling is that good. The story starts in 1939 wen the Germans occupy Poland, we see how this historical event influenced the then 19 year old Karol. He witnessed all the suffering, horror, and oppression from close by, he saw how people were transported to concentration camps, he even lost some close Jewish friends during the Holocaust. It’s not hard to imagine this must have had a deep impact on the late pope’s personality. And one would hope life would get better after the Germans left in 1944. It didn’t.
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I just got back from dinner with friends. Fortunately it was in Groningen, so I could do everything on my bike. After dinner we watched a movie, I didn’t know before. I liked it very much, so that’s why I decided to write a review right away after coming home.
The whole story is set in Brazil, at Rio de Janeiro’s Central Station. Main character of the story is an old spinster, who used to be a teacher and she tries to make a living writing letters for people who cannot write themselves, so they pay her a small fee and then she writes a letter and promises to post them. Her life will change completely when something unexpected happens. One day she needs to write a letter for a woman who wants to reunite her son with his father. The son, who is still a young child, really wants to meet his father and has all kinds of grand ideas about him. The old spinster doesn’t like the idea, because she thinks that a father who left his wife (or mistress, that’s not clear at the beginning) behind with a young child isn’t much of a father. She suspects he will be a drunk and a bad influence for his son. She doesn’t like the idea and doesn’t hide that either. So after the mother has dictated the letter, paid for it, they leave, only to be hit in the street. The mother dies and the child is trying to survive in the Central Station, meeting the letter lady again, who still has the letter to his father. For some reason she decides to take the boy home (also not for too pious reasons, we find out later), which means her life will never be the same again.
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