Romero
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Actor: Alejandro Bracho, Ana Alicia, Eddie Velez, Raul Julia, Richard JordanDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
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DVD Review: A Political And Spiritual Awakening
Summary: 4 Stars
I have a basic tenet that this country (the US, I mean) needs more socially conscious (or even downright political) cinema. In recent years, new technology has led to more and more flash in the movies but decreased substance. Many critics lay the blame for the current trend toward cinematic escapism to the current political climate, and there's certainly some truth to that assertion. But it's just as likely that American moviemakers just have too many toys at hand to concern themselves with grown-up themes.
This 1989 film, though filmed in English and starring a major cinematic figure (the late Raul Julia), was certainly not a typical Hollywood production. It was reportedly produced by the Paulist Fathers and funding in part came from donations by concerned Catholics. It's a "small," film but certainly compelling. Some have lamented the film's relative predictability. But, of course, screenwriter John Sacret Young and director John Duigan were limited by the actual facts of Romero's life. There may have been ways of putting a little more punch into the plotline, I suppose, but overall the facts of Romero's life are riveting enough.
In the classic social drama, the political awakening of the hero is a pretty standard theme. Think NORMA RAE or THE CHINA SYNDROME or COMING HOME from the 1970s (the last gasp of social consciousness in American film, it seems). As in those films, the hero Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador is something of a political naif. A bit timid and bookish, he is promoted to the archbishopric because he seems among the least likely clergy to rock the boat. His gradual transformation to a champion of the poor and oppressed comes about when fellow priests are murdered and tortured and he sees the brutality of his country's repressive government for what it is. As a man of principle and a man of God, he has no choice but to act.
The film's greatest strength is, in fact, its presentation of Romero's transformation as painful and conflicted. Once welcome at the mansions of the very rich, he has become a social and political pariah by the film's end. He has also become, in a very profound way, much more of a man of God.
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