Summary
The film is set during the Jesuit Reductions, a
program by which Jesuit missionaries set up missions independent of the Spanish
state to teach Christianity to the natives. It tells the story of a Spanish
Jesuit priest, Father Gabriel who enters the South American jungle to build a
mission and convert a community of Guaraní Indians to Christianity.
We watched this movie in
class because this movie is directly related to the slave trade. This
movie shows how cruel the slave trade was. The Portuguese (the slavers)
used Christianity in a way to think they were right to put people
into slavery. The movie also shows the Spanish moving away from slavery.
It also mentioned the treaty between the Portuguese and
the Spanish (treaty of Madrid) which the Spanish give land
to the Portuguese and taken the indigenous there
into slavery.
Father Gabriel with the Guarani children
when the Portuguese attacked
the trailer of the mission
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