I’d agree that it seems unnecessarily overdramatic in the movie plus due to the fact that we are closed in with the cardinals, we don’t see how this attack was possible nor the police investigations that follow it. So we are left with an incomplete picture and the cardinals’ reactions to that.
Yeah the person was predictable based on the narrative structure.
Iirc Lawrence gets tipped off at some point about Benitez’ secretive, papal-approved medical treatment that he then cancelled instead of going through with it. I kept thinking about what it could be, and while I didn’t predict the twist completely my mind did wander into that direction. Mainly because it became quite clear to me that this story would pull every possible scenario that a conclave could have, and with the current church discussions regarding the role of women I thought he would turn out to be trans. Which I’m happy they did not do and rather chose a much much more believable and realistic story of a biological inter person who doesn’t even find out he’s not biological male for decades.
Iirc this is pretty realistic. After a certain number of voting rounds cardinals often agree to switch to a different candidate, with such candidate who suddenly comes up as a new option taking a huge jump in votes for him.
And given when the book was written - on the height of Daesh/ISIS bombings in Europe - the fact that a jihadist group would bomb the Vatican during Conclave makes way more sense than if it was a white supremacist group.
The fact that the last twist isn’t properly influencing anything is, I believe, also down to the fact that it is simply adapted from the book.
Ah yes, exactly what I tell my boss when I do stupid stuff for fun
Accurate depiction apparently :D
Because Oscar didnt have the drincc, obviously
Ah, yes that’s true.
See, if you do have a bit of knowledge on current catholic church politics and pick up of some clues early on in the movie you can definitely see the ending coming. It’s not unguessable.
Link to the Presentation itself. Says “Next phase: From November 2025: Potentially developing and rolling out digital euro use cases”
It’s event kino. Cant complain during a Rocky Horror screening either
That’s nearly 10 years ago uff
For shows and movies, see the discussion here: https://lemmy.world/post/27460253 (instance-agnostic link: https://lemsha.re/https://lemmy.world/post/27460253)
Justwatch also has a “made in europe” category: https://www.justwatch.com/de/made-in-europe
Or do you mean streaming services?
Imported US culture (movies, TV etc) has successfully planted the idea in a lot of people that teenagers under 18 are “essentially the same as little children”. So no one cares about technicalities.
The issue here is that most countries define the age of consent differently. I think we can agree that when a 16 year old agrees to sexual contact with another 16 year old, the dynamic is different than if they agree to it with a 40 year old. Absolutely. But that does not mean that the 16 year old doesnt understand what they are doing.
I can assure you that the judiciary system in my country does work. It’s just that these people either a. just want to beat someone up and need an excuse, or b. don’t agree with our laws and think it should be prison time for a 18 year old who wants to date a 16 year old, or a 21 year old who wants to date a 17 year old.
They lump far more people into the same group. They attack anyone whom they think they can, even if they know that their accusations are BS.
Just happened here in Austria. Police took 20 people into custody (13 have since been formally arrested) for luring people to fake dates where they beat them up.
The suspects said they hunted pedophiles, but at least in some of the cases they targeted young adults who expected to come to a date with 16-18 year olds.
Especially the part about his wife. Sounds very much like espionage to me.
There is the “new comments” sort which makes it sort chronological by the time of the last comment under a post
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Absolutely, my phrasing in calling him “not biologically male” was due to me not speaking English as a first language and not being sure how to phrase it correctly