Doubt (2008)

Posted : 4 months, 1 week ago at Jul 12 16:02

''I have doubts. I have such doubts.'' Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him of abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority. Meryl Streep: Sister Aloysius Beauvier ''Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty. When you are lost, you are not alone.'' Doubt is the mystery of whether or not a priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is guilty of molesting an altar boy. The priest's primary accuser is Sister Aloysius, the tyrannical principal of the Catholic school that provides Doubt its location. Watching Hoffman and Streep spar is like watching two professional craftsman at their peak, and fans of exquisite acting should waste no t...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 5 months, 2 weeks ago at Jun 8 6:54

"Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty. When you are lost, you are not alone." Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, Doubt - an expert screen adaptation of Shanley's own Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play - is a complex and uneasy moral thriller shaped by words and characters that relays a story of doubt and certainty in direct conflict. This intellectually and emotionally fatiguing experience is a drama of the highest calibre which concerns a nun and a priest caught on opposite sides of an alleged scandal. This sets in motion an inquisition of morals, values, character, and faith - not just faith in God, but in themselves as well. It's also a tale that enters a moral quagmire from which it never fully emerges. Films often provide resolution and cat...Read more

Posted : 7 months, 3 weeks ago at Mar 31 23:15

To watch Doubt is to engage in a mental game of "Who do you believe? And why?" and to watch some of the greatest actors currently working playing off of each other. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep do, at times, resort to Acting! but it comes from a very natural place. Their characters are distrustful of each other, and are quick to engage in banter, fights and explosive arguments before this movie even begins. The history of the characters, the way the actors imbue the characters with a sense of a fully lived life is remarkable. The most obvious showcase of this being Viola Davis as Mrs. Miller. She has two scenes, and is the most crucial character in the movie. She comes in from the outside world, and shows that sometimes things appear one way, but are infinitely more complex then...Read more

Posted : 8 months, 4 weeks ago at Feb 25 15:37

Com certeza absoluta, não há nome melhor para este filme, adptado de uma premiada peça de mesmo nome. O filme se passa em meados de 1960's, numa escola de freiras onde uma rígida freira, que é também a diretora da escola, inicia uma cruzada contra o padre local, devido à suspeita de que esteja dando atenção demasiada a um aluno. Com um elenco memorável, "Dúvida" se baseia nisto. Com uma atmosfera sombria, "Dúvida" começa na missa, com o padre dando seu sermão. Interpretado com maestria por Philip Seymour Hoffman, padre Brendan Flynn é o centro das atenções por seu suspeita. E interpretações boas sobram em "Dúvida". Além de Philip Seymour, Meryl Streep e Amy Adams fazem bonito quando aparecem. Sem contar Viola Davis que aparece pouco no filme, mas surpreende muitíss...Read more

Rating : 9/10