The Lighting of Calvary

Calvary, released in 2014 and directed by John Michael McDonagh is an incredibly visually striking drama. It is a story about a priest named Father James, played by Brendan Gleeson, who is told by his murderer that he will be killed in seven days. The man wants to kill Gleeson’s character because as a boy, the man was molested by a priest. Father James never committed any such crime and the man knows it, and it is for this reason that he wants Father James dead. He wants to kill a priest that’s done nothing wrong because he was hurt so badly while he was innocent as a child.

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