Let my people go. (Or else.)

Kast’s devotion to the adoration of Pinochet is, according to this stock-framing about faith and politics, is wholly unrelated to the religious ideology that otherwise supposedly shapes his entire outlook on every other aspect of life and politics. So while the Schoenstatt movement in Germany had been anti-Nazi, it was reborn in Chile in the image of the kind of Germans who fled to South America after the war — with all that entails. Bluteau’s Daniel/Jesus is so earnest that he carries us past even the film’s occasional stumbles, like when it drags in outdated “modern” theology that’s something like a cross between the Jesus Seminar and the Da Vinci Code.

Author: Fred Clark

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