Brilliant!

I watched this movie with awe. What fabulous acting from Merle Streep,Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. A simple story with about the best dialogue I have heard in a long, long time.

It tells of a story of Sister Aloysius, an overtly conservative and disciplinarian nun who serve as a principal of a school in the Bronx who suspected Father Flynn, the county priest of untoward behaviour towards an Afro-African student serving as an altar boy in his church. It highlights the issue of doubt and of human failings as we grapple with suspicion and our values.

The last part where the priest succumbed to the pressure to ask for a transfer and the principal in tears because she has doubts about her suspicions speaks volume about the absolute need for proof before you can actually start pointing fingers.

It should have won the Academy Award for best actor (Sean Penn-Milk)and actress (Kate Winslet-The Reader)if the field had not been too competitive in 2008!