In Divine Cinema’s first outing with an actual good movie, Jeff, Dylan, and Adam have a lively debate about the main character, Sonny, in the 1997 Robert Duvall film, The Apostle. This episode becomes a character study of sorts as our hosts offer up their thoughts on the motivations of the films main protagonist… or antagonist?
Film Facts about The Apostle, 1997 (00:01:18)
Review of The Apostle, 1997 (00:04:25)
Ratings and Redeemed Perspectives (01:09:38)
PLOT SUMMARY
Sonny is a passionate, southern Pentecostal preacher whose seemingly perfect life is upended when he discovers that his wife is having an affair. This leads to Sonny’s intensity getting the better of him and he violently attacks his wife’s lover with a baseball bat, killing him. Sonny flees to Louisiana. But instead of laying low he secures several odd jobs to help found a new church. However his past eventually comes back to him and he is forced to face the consequences of this actions.
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