Philomena

Philomena

2013

Ok, I don't like it.  There were touching moments, quite a few, and quite a few comedic moments.  The whole thing really "works" of course, because it's brilliantly directed and acted, and has great chemistry, etc.  So why don't I like it?

Because it's also a highly emotionally manipulative work that has the underpinnings of the homosexual agenda.  It takes a serious subject of the abuse of religious position, power, and greed, and turns it sideways into a manipulative text on homosexuality and the supposed absurdity of sexual abstinence.  It contrasts quite rightly the negative results of sexophobic nuns improperly administering punishment that has been left over from a bygone era of dark age mentality and cruelty, combined with a greedy sensibility, with that of the question of our sexual nature and the question so aptly put by the Martin Sixsmith character played by Steve Coogan, "But why would God give us such a powerful thing as sexuality only to then tell us we must suppress it?" (this is my wording).

This again plays into the hands of the "gay" agenda, as well as Philomena's absolutely blank and unabashed acceptance of her son's homosexual nature, explaining that she "knew all along" that he was homosexual, because he was "such a sensitive and caring boy", inseparable from his sister, so they took them both together.  As if sensitive and caring is the essential ingredient of "being" homosexual.

The writers, Martin Sixsmith (the real one), Steve Coogan, and Jeff Pope, have twisted the wrench here by taking a true story, then tying Catholicism, sexual reticence, and of all things George Bush and the cessation of funding for AIDS research altogether for a 1-2 punch against conservatism, but also thereby ruining, or at best completely clouding the real issue of compassion and grace that the Church is also known to have for lost girls, family, and children.

Booo.  I don't like being manipulated.


Agitatus