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Title: Fair adaptation of the classic novel
Review: This film is a fair adaptation of Graham Greene'sThe Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics). It is the story of a fugitive priest in Mexico during the infamous Calles Law period that used draconian methods to suppress religious freedom, particularly Catholicism, in Mexico. The laws led to the Cristeros war which is recreated in a new film this summer, "For Greater Glory." For that reason, this is a good time to revisit this classic film.The novel focuses a great deal on the shortcomings of the main character and how he is maturing in his faith through redemptive suffering he undergoes in his flight from the police. He comes to grip with his greatest need when he observes, "at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint." Though the film adaptation necessarily lacks a great deal of this character development of the novel, it is still a moving reminder that hate can never ultimately conquer faith.
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