I may have seen some post here on a movie that is about 6
years old called
'Malice' string Nicole Kidman, Alex Baldwin and Bill Pullman.
I enjoyed the movie. Twenty to Thirty years ago or even
longer it would have been a B movie and a second billed movie
of double feature. There is no real shame in that but given
the economics of movies today, no movie, not even a D movie
is can be anything but an A feature.
Putting that aside 'Malice' had been shown in very heavy
rotation this month on various premium cable channels. I saw
it last night. A mistake in the movie stuck me very odd,
given that it took place in Boston, which may the most
predominate Catholic city in The United States. The scene
where the Pullman character confronts his wife's lawyer with
the fact that he could not have been the father of the child
(fetus) that died in the operation. He states ( more or
less): 'how could that have been my child, was it immaculate
conception.
Of course Immaculate Conception is the notion that Mary was
conceived without sin (not sex) and not the fact that Jesus
was conceived through the Holy Ghost (nee Holy Sprirt)
without sex. This is a basic tenet of Catholicism. It is the
main difference between Catholicism and the various
Protestant denominations. This is also a common mistake that
Protestant make thinking that the Jesus' conception was via
Immaculate Conception. A city like Boston with its strong
Catholic presence and character, I found it odd that the
character would make such a glaring mistake. I don't know if
the character was Catholic or not. But I suspect that the
author of script was just ignorant of this. What a
shame
Respectfully B. D. Roye
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