My Unfiltered Review of Mary’s Character In Netflix’s 2024 Film
In my article “What Caused So Much Disappointment on Mary’s Film on Netflix?” I discussed my thoughts about one probable cause of many viewers’ disappointment about the film. This is the lack of “spiritual sense” in many aspects of the movie, primarily, in its take on its main characters.
By spiritual sense, I meant to refer to that sense of the holy and the sacred, something that is more than our secular world’s idea of what it means to be good.
Foremost of this is the case of Mary. In the movie, Mary was shown to have a compassion for the poor. In one scene, she willingly reached out to a beggar on the street. She was also seen giving food for the poor. This is certainly good, and I think no one today would ever protest against that. In fact, this may be the very idea of the world about what a holy person should do.
This is indeed admirable and no one should be lacking in charity, especially Mary, the mother of our Lord.
But my problem here is when Mary started to ask the prophetess Anna about their life in the temple.
Here is the dialogue: