This is My Father
Saw the film This is My Father Tuesday. Like many films, it's well made, but is lacking. The essential plot is that a fellow goes to Ireland to find out who his father was. He discovers that his mother had gotten pregnant by a slightly older farmer who went on to commit suicide. It had the typical anti-Catholic bias one might expect in such a film: the lovers' behaviour was portrayed as acceptable and that church's ministers were portrayed as fire-and-brimstone types (which rings false—I've never thought of Irish Catholics as being particularly dour). There's a bit of disapproval over the fact that the suicide is not allowed a church burial—but his death is exactly a choice of despair and lack of faith in God; how could the church allow a burial?
Not really worth seeing, I'm afraid. Some pretty girls in it, though, which is never a bad thing.
