Think

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2001)

For me, along with `Dances With Wolves' by Costner, `The Mission' was a drop of sincerity and reflection. These two movies are alike in their most general message, that being pondering over relations between two worlds - the old one and the new one, and the crack the World gave after these two worlds previously unacquainted faced each other.
`The Mission' is not a completely hollywood-style article. Fortunately, it `lacks' pathos and leaves no hope. The first thing I like about this movie is its historical truthfulness. It was indeed the Misiones province of Argentina named so because of the missions. It is indeed the Iguazu waterfall. They were indeed Guarani people. It is indeed the place where borders of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet. The second is the objective picture of a piece of the Southern American history the movie tries to deliver. There is no black and white, no absolute truth, and no absolute God. The key merit of `The Mission' is that it makes you think - the thing that is obviously in scarcity in nowadays' cinema. And it also makes you wonder. But one can find no answer.
The film is hardly known among viewers if at all, nobody knows why, while it shows some unexpected facets of Jeremy Irons' and Robert De Niro's talents. Silent tough men whose burning worlds are all inside.
This film is not for spending time, it is for looking around and back and thinking. That is why I like it. And also of course because it's so rare to see a movie talking to you about these things, about this continent, its people and its past.