(April 23, 2011)
I ran into an article
in the Guardian, a Brit news source, about the mixed reviews of the new movie
in Italian – Habemus Papam – (We have a pope.)
Alas, cannot find a video with English subtitles. The storyline is about a newly elected pope with panic/anxiety attacks who requires the services of a shrink.
The best of the best shrink available is played by director Nanni Moretti. I think that the storyline has the pope ending up going to the shrink’s ex-wife, Margherita Buy, for therapy and in the end the pope resigns a job he did not really want and could not handle.
That is a very human theme. (If popes cannot be human, then how could Jesus have been human? Myth reflecting reality or reality reflecting myth?)
Habemus Papam is available from Netflix with English subtitles
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