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Romero (Click to select text)
Romero While watching the movie, Romero, you look into to the lives of the lives of the Salvadorian people, and learn all they went though in order to gain freedom. Oscar Romero went though a lot to stand up for his church, and be there when he people needed him the most. Oscar Romero was nominated to take the job as Arch Bishop, because the other bishops saw him as a quiet man who kept to himself, and his books. They wanted someone who would stay conservative and not start anything. He started off receiving many gifts from the richer people, and went to their parties, but as time went on he started to think more as if what they were doing was right. When his good friend Padre Grande was killed after giving the sacrament of baptism, Romero knew something had to change. Romero was then faced with a younger lady whose husband had been taken as a political prisoner. She asked for his help and he did everything he could to. He went to the president elect who denied anything about political prisoners. The husband was found later dead. Romero was faced with many of these abductions of young kids, girls being raped and killed, and families being torn apart. He met with each family, listening to each story and receiving a picture of the missing people. At one point in the story the church had been taken over, Romero and another priest went to the church in the city of Aguillarez to take care of the Eucharist. He was allowed in the church, but on his way to the alter he was stopped. A man asked him wear he was going, and after Romero answered the man turned around and shot the alter, the cross, and the Eucharist. Romero left the building , but turned around went back in and picked up the Eucharist off of the ground. He was then carried out and thrown on the ground outside of the church. Throughout the movie Romero was faced with the decision of what is right and wrong. The easy way would to be to go along with the government and the other bishops, and leave church and politics separate, but he couldn't watch he people get hurt any longer. In the end he stood up for what he believed in and lost his life while giving mass. I found the movie to be very depressing, but very good. It made me think a lot about all the injustices in the world that go on without me knowing. I hear what is on the news and in newspapers, but it is never the whole story. During the years 1980 to 1989 60,000 people were killed. Romero gave them the strength to hold on and not to give up. He also helped them to believe in God and not blame him for the tragedy taking place in their lives.
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