I just saw the movie. I think it was great. PSH comes up with the goods yet again. Streep was also great; steely, icy and resolute.
8/10
With religious fervour increasing all around the world and with the strict codes of conduct that many religious denominations and group request of their members, inevitable clashes occur wherever liberal tendencies feel threatened by all-encompassing religious order. Legitimate questions and malicious investigations are touching the heart of religions and their groups in the East and West, with religions struggling to get on top of it all and try to achieve a balance between modernising, compromising and revising their beliefs and practices.
Doubt touches upon this and shows the struggle of a fanatically devout nun, who in her desire to ensure that nothing should be allowed to contaminate the purity and violate the sanctity of her Church, will stop at nothing to hound and pursue the head of the church, a liberal and progressive PSH. Random and innocent acts are read into in such a way that she arrives to the conclusion that he is a child abuser and has taken advantage of the only coloured child in the church school.
The film threads other minor stories into the main story with great finesse and whilst initially I felt more time could have been given to develope the characters of the film, I have come to the conclusion that the actors beautifully fulfilled their roles and the script was so tight as to allow viewers to reach almost the same identical conclusions about each character. There was depth to each character; generosity and love in the case of PSH and sterility and raw emotion in the case of Meryl Streep.
The child actors too were very good.
