The Black Robe Film Analysis

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The Black Robe is a movie about a journey to a Huron Mission. The people on this journey include a missionary named Father Laforgue, a priest-in-training named Daniel, and a group of Algonquin Indians. Throughout the movie, Father Laforgue tries to convert the Indians to Christianity. However, he doesn’t successfully do this until the end, when he is questioning his own religion. I think the interaction between the natives and whites in this movie relates back to foundations of colonization that we have been discussing in class. In contrast to the examples seen in class, the white people didn’t see the natives as inferior but as unaware. Further, they started to question their own beliefs unlike the Europeans that were mentioned in class. Even though the Natives volunteered to be baptized in the end, I think this film had a negative view of colonization because of all the violence and death that came from cultural differences. This is specifically scene through Iroquois slaughter of the Algonquin. However, I do think the movie was mostly trying to stay true the …show more content…

Whether it being fingers cut off, awkward sex scenes, or arrows in the neck, it was definitely a big shock. The movie did a really good job developing the characters. Throughout the movie my opinion of Father Laforgue constantly changed. I started to like him more once he started to be more open and accepting of the native’s religion. However, I still felt bad for him when the group decided to leave him because they misunderstood him. I also felt bad when he was baptizing the Indians because he seemed so unsure of his own religion. I was sad to see at the end of the movie in the after texts that all of the Hurons ended up being killed in the end. I think this movie did a good job accurately depicting the Indians as they were very spiritual and nature based they were also great warriors. I think in modern culture they often are portrayed one

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