Doubt

Serve este post para vos falar do meu mais recente filme favorito: Doubt (ou Dúvida).

É um filme simples, sem efeitos especiais, sem guarda-roupa espectacular, nem cenários de cortar a respiração. Doubt é genial somente pelos seu conteúdo. E com isto quero dizer os seus diálogos, os fantásticos diálogos. Já para não falar da sempre simplesmente genial Meryl Streep e da excelente interpetação de Philip Seymour Hoffman.

O que se segue é um exerto do filme. Este exerto, penso, representa na sua totalidade a excelência do filme. É uma das cenas em o personagem principal, o padre Brendan Flynn (interpetado por Hoffman) dá o seguinte sermão:

"A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew -
I know none of you have ever done this.
That night, she had a dream: a great hand appeared over her and pointed down on her. She was immediately seized with an overwhelming sense of guilt.
The next day she went to confession. She got the old parish priest, Father
O' Rourke, and she told him the whole thing:
- Is gossiping a sin? - she asked the old man. - Was that God All Mighty's hand pointing down at me? Should I ask for your absolution? Father, have I done something wrong?'
- Yes - Father O' Rourke answered her. - Yes, you ignorant, badly-brought-up female.You have blamed false witness on your neighbor. You played fast and loose with his reputation, and you should be heartily ashamed.
So, the woman said she was sorry, and asked for forgiveness.
- Not so fast - says O' Rourke. - I want you to go home, take a pillow upon your roof, cut it open with a knife, and return here to me.
So, the woman went home: took a pillow off her bed, a knife from the drawer, went up the fire escape to her roof, and stabbed the pillow. Then she went back to the old parish priest as instructed.
- Did you cut the pillow with a knife? - he says.
- Yes, Father.
- And what were the results?
- Feathers. - she said.
- Feathers? - he repeated.
- Feathers; everywhere, Father.
- Now I want you to go back and gather up every last feather that flew out onto the wind.
- Well - she said - it can't be done. I don't know where they went. The wind took them all over.
- And that - said Father O' Rourke - Is gossip!"

Se a missa tivesse sermões como os do Padre Flynn eu iria á missa todos os domingos e seria crente. Devo ainda acrescentar que a cena em que o Padre Flynn e a Irmã Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) estão a discutir é de arrepiar. Eu estava toda encolhida na cadeira do cinema porque a certa altura já pensava que estavam a discutir e gritar comigo.