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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Maria's gym teacher turns off the class's music so Maria can participate in class without violating her religious belief. The teacher tries to make a point about tolerance, but Maria's classmates ask how she isn't being intolerant by assuming their music is Satanic, and quickly dismiss a boy's appeal to religious freedom as an attempt to express his love for Maria.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil: Maria's gym teacher turns off the class's music so Maria can participate in class without violating her religious belief. The teacher tries to make a point about tolerance, but Maria's classmates ask how she isn't being intolerant by assuming their music is Satanic, and quickly dismiss a boy's appeal to religious freedom as an attempt to express his love for Maria.
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* ASaintCalledMary: Maria from ''Film/StationsOfTheCross'' is explicitly named after the Virgin Mary, and she is the only member of the fundamentalist Society of Saint Paul to be shown not to be silent, dogmatic or cruel. All she wants is not to sin and be closer to {{God}}, but she struggles in a life where her infant brother is sick and underdeveloped, and like Mary with her son, she cannot bear to see her little boy suffer.
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* ASaintCalledMary: ASaintNamedMary: Maria from ''Film/StationsOfTheCross'' is explicitly named after the Virgin Mary, and she is the only member of the fundamentalist Society of Saint Paul to be shown not to be silent, dogmatic or cruel. All she wants is not to sin and be closer to {{God}}, but she struggles in a life where her infant brother is sick and underdeveloped, and like Mary with her son, she cannot bear to see her little boy suffer.
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* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Maria's self-hatred and shame are the shadow of her worship for Bernadette, the family's beautiful, smart, funny ''au pair'' who's perfection is only furthered by the fact that she's not plain German like Maria is, she's ''French''.
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Maria's self-hatred and shame are the shadow of her worship for Bernadette, the family's beautiful, smart, funny ''au pair'' who's perfection is only furthered by the fact that she's not plain German like Maria is, she's ''French''.
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* SuicideIsShameful: Despite being lectured about the sinfulness of crushes, dancing, and fashion, Maria only hears about the sinfulness of suicide after her Confirmation and it doesn't come from her fundamentalist mother or zealous priest, but from her friend, Bernadette. Even though this is the only time the lovely Bernadette talks about sin, Maria refuses to believe her, because of the insistence from her community that nearly everything about her was an insult to God. If her one hope of doing good for God was also a sin, then Maria would only have her self-loathing and shame.
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* SuicideIsShameful: Despite being lectured about the sinfulness of crushes, dancing, and fashion, Maria only hears about the sinfulness of suicide after her Confirmation and it doesn't come from her fundamentalist mother or zealous priest, but from her friend, Bernadette. Even though this is the only time the lovely Bernadette talks about sin, Maria refuses to believe her, because of the insistence from her community that nearly everything about her was an insult to God. If her one hope of doing good for God was also a sin, then Maria would only have her self-loathing and shame.
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* GoodWearsWhite: In contrast to the somber grays and blacks of Maria's family and clergy, the doctor who treats Maria and confronts her mother is dressed in a strikingly white lab coat, in an office as clean, light, and comforting as him.
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* DissonantSerenity: Hey, if you screamed your fourteen year old to tears, would you then stop talking, start buttering a bagel, and ask your other kids whether they want meat or cheese, all while said fourteen year old is slobbering all over the table? No, because you're not a robotic mother who's trying to scare the sin out of her beautiful, horrible daughter.
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* DissonantSerenity: Hey, if you screamed your fourteen year old to tears, would you then stop talking, start buttering a bagel, and ask your other kids whether they want meat or cheese, all while said fourteen year old is slobbering sobbing all over the table? No, because you're not a robotic mother who's trying to scare the sin out of her beautiful, horrible daughter.
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: The priest who leads Maria's Confirmation study quotes Jesus's command to "Love God and thy neighbor as thyself" to make a point that even if people "fight under {{Satan}}'s flag," Maria and her classmates must do whatever they can to save their souls from the sufferings of Hell. The specific wording of the priest's phrase isn't found in Literature/TheFourGospels, but it's a fair contraction of Matthew 22:37-40, which is where "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" is deemed one of the the two Great Commandments. Fair enough, at least, that it creates a dissonance between the beauty of the scripture he quotes with the weight and anxiety his is putting on the already depressed Maria.
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: The priest who leads Maria's Confirmation study quotes Jesus's command to "Love God and thy neighbor as thyself" to make a point that even if people "fight under {{Satan}}'s flag," Maria and her classmates must do whatever they can to save their souls from the sufferings of Hell. The specific wording of the priest's phrase isn't found in Literature/TheFourGospels, but it's a fair contraction of Matthew 22:37-40, which is where "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" is deemed one of the the two Great Commandments. Fair enough, at least, that it creates a dissonance between the beauty of the scripture he quotes with the weight and anxiety his this is putting on the already depressed Maria.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Maria's father says nothing in the movie that doesn't affirm his wife, who yells at her children and orders them around with nary a glance at her calmer husband. He seems troubled by his wife's
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* GodLivesInTheSky: ''Stations'' ends with the camera (which hasn't moved the entire movie) ascending into the clouds, but in contrast to the church's dogmatic view of religion, the sky is hidden and unclear.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Maria is so burdened by constant guilt over sin, attempts to repress any thought of her personal appearance, and the harsh criticisms of her mother that she sees the only way to be good would be to sacrifice her whole life to God, or in plainer words, kill herself. Despite talking about sacrificing herself to her priest, he can only say that God would like more people on Earth to help convert more people, with no attempt to understand or address Maria's emotional trouble.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Maria is so burdened by her constant guilt over sin, attempts to repress any thought of her personal appearance, hatred for her body, and the harsh her mother's scathing criticisms of her mother that she sees the only way to be good would be to thing she feels she can do is sacrifice her whole life to God, or in plainer words, kill herself. Despite talking about sacrificing herself to her priest, he can only say that God would like more people on Earth to help convert more people, with no attempt to understand or address Maria's emotional trouble.
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* SuicideIsShameful: After years of being talked about the sinfulness of crushes, dancing, and fashion, Maria only hears about the sinfulness of killing's oneself on the eleventh station. Even though this is the only time the lovely Bernadette talks about sin, Maria refuses to believe her, because Maria only hope was that hear death would please God in the face of the insistence of her mother and priest that nearly everything Maria did with her life or wanted to do was sinful. If this final sacrifice was a sin alongside everything else, then Maria had no choice but to be evil, a thought she cannot bear.\\\
She should have trusted Bernadette apart from her other parental figures, however, because Bernadette is the one authority who insisted that Maria's actions were not sinful. She explicitly says early on that "Liking a boy is not a sin" in disagreement with Maria's mother, only to later say "If you [sacrifice yourself] against his will, you commit a sin."
She should have trusted Bernadette apart from her other parental figures, however, because Bernadette is the one authority who insisted that Maria's actions were not sinful. She explicitly says early on that "Liking a boy is not a sin" in disagreement with Maria's mother, only to later say "If you [sacrifice yourself] against his will, you commit a sin."
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* SuicideIsShameful: After years of Despite being talked lectured about the sinfulness of crushes, dancing, and fashion, Maria only hears about the sinfulness of killing's oneself on the eleventh station. suicide after her Confirmation and it doesn't come from her fundamentalist mother or zealous priest, but from her friend, Bernadette. Even though this is the only time the lovely Bernadette talks about sin, Maria refuses to believe her, because Maria only hope was that hear death would please God in the face of the insistence of from her mother and priest community that nearly everything Maria did with about her life or wanted to do was sinful. an insult to God. If this final sacrifice her one hope of doing good for God was also a sin alongside everything else, sin, then Maria had no choice but to be evil, a thought she cannot bear.\\\
She shouldwould only have trusted Bernadette apart from her other parental figures, however, because Bernadette is the one authority who insisted that Maria's actions were not sinful. She explicitly says early on that "Liking a boy is not a sin" in disagreement with Maria's mother, only to later say "If you [sacrifice yourself] against his will, you commit a sin."self-loathing and shame.
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* ForegoneConclusion: The twelfth station is "UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} dies on the cross," and Maria's only solace is in her dream of sacrificing her whole life to God. Sure, there aren't a lot of Crucifixions now a days, but the film hardly hides what will happen to Maria by the twelfth station.
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* ForegoneConclusion: The twelfth station is "UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} dies on the cross," and Maria's only solace is in her dream of sacrificing her whole life to God. Sure, there aren't a lot of Crucifixions now a days, nowadays, but the film hardly hides what that doesn't mean Maria's fate will happen to Maria by the twelfth station.be more pleasant than Christ's.
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** As opposed to the somber grays and blacks of Maria's family and clergy, the doctor who treats her and confronts her mother in the eleventh station is dressed in a startling white lab coat, in an office as clean, light, and comforting as him.
** The first thing Bernadette can think of when asked to describe Heaven is "a great light," before going on to describe how everyone sings and their hearts are filled with greta joy.
** Maria's mother insists her daughter is given a white dress in the thirteenth station, in order to show how objectively pure her sinless daughter is.
** The first thing Bernadette can think of when asked to describe Heaven is "a great light," before going on to describe how everyone sings and their hearts are filled with greta joy.
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''Stations of the Cross'' is a German language film with fourteen shots, one per scene, with each one paralleling one [[PassionPlay Station of the Cross]][[note]]1. Jesus is condemned to death. 2. Jesus carries the Cross 3. Jesus falls for the first time 4. Jesus encounters his mother. 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross. 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. 7. Jesus falls for the second time 8. Jesus meets the three women of Jerusalem 9. Jesus falls for the third time. 10. Jesus is stripped of his clothing. 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross. 12. Jesus dies on the Cross. 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross. 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb.[[/note]]. The protagonist here is not UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, but Maria, a girl haunted by thoughts of sin and self-hatred as a result of her upbringing by her oppressive mother and the fundamentalist (and fictional) Priestly Society of St. Paul.
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''Stations of the Cross'' is a German language film with fourteen shots, one per scene, with each one paralleling one a [[PassionPlay Station of the Cross]][[note]]1. Jesus is condemned to death. 2. Jesus carries the Cross 3. Jesus falls for the first time 4. Jesus encounters his mother. 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross. 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. 7. Jesus falls for the second time 8. Jesus meets the three women of Jerusalem 9. Jesus falls for the third time. 10. Jesus is stripped of his clothing. 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross. 12. Jesus dies on the Cross. 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross. 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb.[[/note]]. The protagonist here is not UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, but Maria, a girl haunted by thoughts of sin and self-hatred as a result of her upbringing by her oppressive mother and the fundamentalist (and fictional) Priestly Society of St. Paul.
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* EvilMatriarch: Maria's mother, despite her best intentions, berates her daughter and leaves her ashamed of her appearance, her growth, and her friendships.
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* EvilMatriarch: Maria's mother, despite her best intentions, berates her daughter and leaves her ashamed of her appearance, her growth, and her friendships. She refuses to let anyone else have any control in her daughter's life, not even a doctor who's trying to save her from anorexia. The contrast between her strict Christianity and her monstrosity towards her daughter is only made more clear by her role in scene four ("Jesus encounters his mother.") where, despite taking the place of the Virgin Mary, Maria's mother acts without any of the mercy or compassion characterized by the saints.
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* DissonantSerenity: Hey, if you screamed your fourteen year old to tears, would you then stop talking, start buttering a bagel, and ask your other kids whether they want meat or cheese, all while said fourteen year old is slobbering all over the table? No, because you're not a robotic mother who's trying to scare the sin out of her beautiful, horrible daughter.
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* MoralGuardians: Maria's church sees pop music as corrupted by "Satanic rhythms."
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* MoralGuardians: Maria's church sees pop music as corrupted by "Satanic rhythms."" That sounds silly on paper, but when it leads to a fourteen year old being screamed at until she cries just because she wanted to go to a modern choir, [[PlayedForDrama it is difficult not to take seriously]].
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* SuicideIsShameful: After years of being talked about the sinfulness of crushes, dancing, and fashion, Maria only hears about the sinfulness of killing's oneself on the eleventh station. Even though this is the only time the lovely Bernadette talks about sin, Maria refuses to believe her, because Maria only hope was that hear death would please God in the face of the insistence of her mother and priest that nearly everything Maria did with her life or wanted to do was sinful. If this final sacrifice was a sin alongside everything else, then Maria had no choice but to be evil, a thought she cannot bear.
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* SuicideIsShameful: After years of being talked about the sinfulness of crushes, dancing, and fashion, Maria only hears about the sinfulness of killing's oneself on the eleventh station. Even though this is the only time the lovely Bernadette talks about sin, Maria refuses to believe her, because Maria only hope was that hear death would please God in the face of the insistence of her mother and priest that nearly everything Maria did with her life or wanted to do was sinful. If this final sacrifice was a sin alongside everything else, then Maria had no choice but to be evil, a thought she cannot bear. \\\
She should have trusted Bernadette apart from her other parental figures, however, because Bernadette is the one authority who insisted that Maria's actions were not sinful. She explicitly says early on that "Liking a boy is not a sin" in disagreement with Maria's mother, only to later say "If you [sacrifice yourself] against his will, you commit a sin."
She should have trusted Bernadette apart from her other parental figures, however, because Bernadette is the one authority who insisted that Maria's actions were not sinful. She explicitly says early on that "Liking a boy is not a sin" in disagreement with Maria's mother, only to later say "If you [sacrifice yourself] against his will, you commit a sin."
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''Stations of the Cross'' is a German language film with fourteen shots, one per scene, with each one paralleling one [[PassionPlay Station of the Cross]][[note]]1. Jesus is condemned to death. 2. Jesus carries the Cross 3. Jesus falls for the first time 4. Jesus encounters his mother. 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross. 5. Jesus falls for the second time 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. 7. Jesus falls the second time. 8. Jesus meets the three women of Jerusalem 9. Jesus falls for the third time. 10. Jesus is stripped of his clothing. 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross. 12. Jesus dies on the Cross. 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross. 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb.[[/note]]. The protagonist here is not UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, but Maria, a girl haunted by thoughts of sin and self-hatred as a result of her upbringing by her oppressive mother and the fundamentalist (and fictional) Priestly Society of St. Paul.
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''Stations of the Cross'' is a German language film with fourteen shots, one per scene, with each one paralleling one [[PassionPlay Station of the Cross]][[note]]1. Jesus is condemned to death. 2. Jesus carries the Cross 3. Jesus falls for the first time 4. Jesus encounters his mother. 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross. 5. Jesus falls for the second time 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. 7. Jesus falls for the second time. time 8. Jesus meets the three women of Jerusalem 9. Jesus falls for the third time. 10. Jesus is stripped of his clothing. 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross. 12. Jesus dies on the Cross. 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross. 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb.[[/note]]. The protagonist here is not UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, but Maria, a girl haunted by thoughts of sin and self-hatred as a result of her upbringing by her oppressive mother and the fundamentalist (and fictional) Priestly Society of St. Paul.
** The first scene sees the parish's priest mention fashion and dresses as a temptation of the Devil to lead the people of the real Church astray.
** In the second scene, Maria tries to avoid being in a picture to avoid thinking of her appearance, but her mother orders her to. Ironically, Maria's mother chastises her, not for lacking confidence, but for being too preoccupied with her appearance by not being preoccupied with her appearance. Faced with a family that will always see her as self-obsessed, Maria ends the scene on the verge of tears.
** In the fourth scene, Maria's mother smiles and tells Maria she can buy a dress with stripes for her Confirmation, as if that's something rebellious and unlikely for a mother to allow. She does at least acknowledge the dissonance, but only in the context of decrying the fashion of the modern day.
** In the fifth scene, the priest pushes for Maria to confess that she's been attempting to stir lust in a boy she's been talking to, even though Maria knows that's not the truth. Still, it confuses her enough to want to avoid that boy entirely.
** In the seventh scene,
** In the second scene, Maria tries to avoid being in a picture to avoid thinking of her appearance, but her mother orders her to. Ironically, Maria's mother chastises her, not for lacking confidence, but for being too preoccupied with her appearance by not being preoccupied with her appearance. Faced with a family that will always see her as self-obsessed, Maria ends the scene on the verge of tears.
** In the fourth scene, Maria's mother smiles and tells Maria she can buy a dress with stripes for her Confirmation, as if that's something rebellious and unlikely for a mother to allow. She does at least acknowledge the dissonance, but only in the context of decrying the fashion of the modern day.
** In the fifth scene, the priest pushes for Maria to confess that she's been attempting to stir lust in a boy she's been talking to, even though Maria knows that's not the truth. Still, it confuses her enough to want to avoid that boy entirely.
** In the seventh scene,
* MeaningfulName: So, our protagonist is in a fundamentalist sect of Catholicism that sees every other denomination and religion as an arm of Satan's empire, so what is the name of the one non-fundamentalist person she gets to talk to? Christian, a mainstream Catholic who befriends her, defying her expectations of a Satanic pawn.
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* PassionPlay: Each scene is modeled after one Station of the Cross, following the Catholic tradition of how Jesus went from being condemned to death to his burial. The role of Jesus is played by the soon-to-be-Confirmed Maria, the Virgin Mary is played by her abusive mother, the righteous Simon of Cyrene is played by a sin-shaming priest, and the women of Jerusalem are condensed into a schoolboy who has a crush on Maria. Although each scene only loosely follows its respective station, [[ForegoneConclusion it ends as one would expect a Passion to]].
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Anyone who knows how Jesus ends up in Literature/TheFourGospels has an idea where Maria's story is going, but the rather loose connection between each scene and each station, along with the film's subversion of religious imagery, makes it interesting to look at in the context of good ol' tropes.
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Anyone who knows how Jesus ends up in Literature/TheFourGospels has an idea where Maria's story is going, but the rather loose connection between each scene and each station, along with the film's subversion of religious imagery, makes it interesting to look at in the context of good ol' tropes.the tropes of religious life and cultural change.
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''Stations of the Cross'' is a German language film with fourteen shots, one per scene, with each one paralleling one [[PassionPlay Station of the Cross]][[note]]1. Jesus is condemned to death. 2. Jesus carries the Cross 3. Jesus falls for the first time 4. Jesus encounters his mother. 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross. 5. Jesus falls for the second time 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. 7. Jesus falls the second time. 8. Jesus meets the three women of Jerusalem 9. Jesus falls for the third time. 10. Jesus is stripped of his clothing. 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross. 12. Jesus dies on the Cross. 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross. 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb.[[/note]] The protagonist here is not UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, but Maria, a girl haunted by thoughts of sin and self-hatred as a result of her upbringing by her oppressive mother and the fundamentalist (and fictional) Priestly Society of St. Paul.
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''Stations of the Cross'' is a German language film with fourteen shots, one per scene, with each one paralleling one [[PassionPlay Station of the Cross]][[note]]1. Jesus is condemned to death. 2. Jesus carries the Cross 3. Jesus falls for the first time 4. Jesus encounters his mother. 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross. 5. Jesus falls for the second time 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. 7. Jesus falls the second time. 8. Jesus meets the three women of Jerusalem 9. Jesus falls for the third time. 10. Jesus is stripped of his clothing. 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross. 12. Jesus dies on the Cross. 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross. 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb.[[/note]] [[/note]]. The protagonist here is not UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, but Maria, a girl haunted by thoughts of sin and self-hatred as a result of her upbringing by her oppressive mother and the fundamentalist (and fictional) Priestly Society of St. Paul.
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* MoralGuardians: Maria's church sees pop music as corrupted by "Satanic rhythms," so her gym teacher turns off the class's music so she can feel comfortable participating in class. The teacher tries to make a point about tolerance, but Maria's classmates ask how she isn't being intolerant by assuming their music is Satanic, and quickly dismiss a boy's appeal to religious freedom as an attempt to express his love for Maria.
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* MoralGuardians: Maria's church sees pop music as corrupted by "Satanic rhythms," so her gym teacher turns off the class's music so she can feel comfortable participating in class. The teacher tries to make a point about tolerance, but Maria's classmates ask how she isn't being intolerant by assuming their music is Satanic, and quickly dismiss a boy's appeal to religious freedom as an attempt to express his love for Maria.
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''Stations of the Cross'' is a German language film with fourteen shots, one per scene, with each one paralleling one [[PassionPlay Station of the Cross]][[note]]1. Jesus is condemned to death. 2. Jesus carries the Cross 3. Jesus falls for the first time 4. Jesus encounters his mother. 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross. 5. Jesus falls the second time? 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. 7. Jesus falls the second time. 8. Jesus meets the three women of Jerusalem 9. Jesus falls for the third time. 10. Jesus is stripped of his clothing. 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross. 12. Jesus dies on the Cross. 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross. 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb.[[/note]] The protagonist here is not UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, but Maria, a girl haunted by thoughts of sin and self-hatred as a result of her upbringing by her oppressive mother and the fundamentalist (and fictional) Priestly Society of St. Paul.
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''Stations of the Cross'' is a German language film with fourteen shots, one per scene, with each one paralleling one [[PassionPlay Station of the Cross]][[note]]1. Jesus is condemned to death. 2. Jesus carries the Cross 3. Jesus falls for the first time 4. Jesus encounters his mother. 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross. 5. Jesus falls for the second time? time 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. 7. Jesus falls the second time. 8. Jesus meets the three women of Jerusalem 9. Jesus falls for the third time. 10. Jesus is stripped of his clothing. 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross. 12. Jesus dies on the Cross. 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross. 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb.[[/note]] The protagonist here is not UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, but Maria, a girl haunted by thoughts of sin and self-hatred as a result of her upbringing by her oppressive mother and the fundamentalist (and fictional) Priestly Society of St. Paul.
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->''"The film is not an attack on faith or religion, but an examination of how faith goes wrong."''
-->--'''[[http://decentfilms.com/reviews/stationsofthecross Steven D. Greydanus]]'''
''Stations of the Cross'' is a German language film with fourteen shots, one per scene, with each one paralleling one [[PassionPlay Station of the Cross]][[note]]1. Jesus is condemned to death. 2. Jesus carries the Cross 3. Jesus falls for the first time 4. Jesus encounters his mother. 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross. 5. Jesus falls the second time? 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. 7. Jesus falls the second time. 8. Jesus meets the three women of Jerusalem 9. Jesus falls for the third time. 10. Jesus is stripped of his clothing. 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross. 12. Jesus dies on the Cross. 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross. 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb.[[/note]] The protagonist here is not UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, but Maria, a girl haunted by thoughts of sin and self-hatred as a result of her upbringing by her oppressive mother and the fundamentalist (and fictional) Priestly Society of St. Paul.
Anyone who knows how Jesus ends up in Literature/TheFourGospels has an idea where Maria's story is going, but the rather loose connection between each scene and each station, along with the film's subversion of religious imagery, makes it interesting to look at in the context of good ol' tropes.
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* AbusiveParents: Maria's mother, despite her best intentions, berates her daughter and leaves her ashamed of her appearance, her growth, and her friendships.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: The priest who leads Maria's Confirmation study quotes Jesus's command to "Love God and thy neighbor as thyself" to make a point that even if people "fight under {{Satan}}'s flag," Maria and her classmates must do whatever they can to save their souls from the sufferings of Hell. The specific wording of the priest's phrase isn't found in Literature/TheFourGospels, but it's a fair contraction of Matthew 22:37-40, which is where "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" is deemed one of the the two Great Commandments. Fair enough, at least, that it creates a dissonance between the beauty of the scripture he quotes with the weight and anxiety his is putting on the already depressed Maria.
* {{Confessional}}: The fifth station, where Simon helps Jesus carry his cross, has Maria confess her sins to her traditionalist parish's young priest. Instead of the atmosphere of honesty and forgiveness typical to most Confessional scenes, the Fifth Station sees the priest interrogate Maria and extrapolate sins of lust from Maria's innocent crush on a school boy, leaving Maria more uncomfortable and convinced of her own sin than before she entered the booth. The scene, like all others in the movie, is made up of a single shot, this time focusing on a sideview of Maria's face as she speaks into the screen with the priest on the other side.
%%* CrucialCross
* DrivenToSuicide: Maria is so burdened by constant guilt over sin, attempts to repress any thought of her personal appearance, and the harsh criticisms of her mother that she sees the only way to be good would be to sacrifice her whole life to God, or in plainer words, kill herself. Despite talking about sacrificing herself to her priest, he can only say that God would like more people on Earth to help convert more people, with no attempt to understand or address Maria's emotional trouble.
%%* {{Envy}}:
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Maria's self-hatred and shame are the shadow of her worship for Bernadette, the family's beautiful, smart, funny ''au pair'' who's perfection is only furthered by the fact that she's not plain German like Maria is, she's ''French''.
* {{Fainting}}: As a result of her malnutrition and stress, Maria faints in front of the Archbishop at her Confirmation. Fittingly, the station here is "9. Jesus falls for the third time."
%%* FirstWords:
* ForegoneConclusion: The twelfth station is "UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} dies on the cross," and Maria's only solace is in her dream of sacrificing her whole life to God. Sure, there aren't a lot of Crucifixions now a days, but the film hardly hides what will happen to Maria by the twelfth station.
%%* {{Heaven}}:
* HenpeckedHusband: Maria's father says nothing in the movie that doesn't affirm his wife, who yells at her children and orders them around with nary a glance at her calmer husband. He seems troubled by his wife's
%%* HeroicSacrifice:
%%* HumanSacrifice:
* {{Irony}}: The twelfth station has Maria administered Holy Communion, the Bread of Life that Christ changes into his own Substance in order to nourish the soul of his followers so they may live eternally. [[spoiler:Maria chokes on the Bread of Life and dies.]]
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The camera doesn't move or cut within the movie's fourteen scenes, remaining as unmoving and distant as the impersonal teachings of Maria's fundamentalist parish. Even when a scene is set in a moving car, the camera barely moves. The only two exceptions are in the tenth station, where Maria moves from the pews to the altar for her Confirmation, and, more shockingly, [[spoiler:when the camera moves from Maria's grave to the beautiful fields and finally to the Heavens for the Fourteenth station]].
* LightIsGood:
** As opposed to the somber grays and blacks of Maria's family and clergy, the doctor who treats her and confronts her mother in the eleventh station is dressed in a startling white lab coat, in an office as clean, light, and comforting as him.
** The first thing Bernadette can think of when asked to describe Heaven is "a great light," before going on to describe how everyone sings and their hearts are filled with greta joy.
** Maria's mother insists her daughter is given a white dress in the thirteenth station, in order to show how objectively pure her sinless daughter is.
* MakeUpIsEvil: One of the most insistent teachings of Maria's church is that make-up, fashion, and dresses are self-absorbing topics that serve only to invoke lust in men and keep women from God.
%%This one up above is in like every scene so I might do a sub-bullet for each of them just on this one.
%%* NewMediaAreEvil:
* TheNewRockAndRoll: The Priestly Society of Saint Paul split from the Catholic Church in part because the Church began to incorporate secular music like that of Bach, gospel singers, and soul artists into the liturgy. The members of Saint Paul see these musical genres as being the instrument of the Devil, who uses their satanic rhythms and demonic baselines to seduce children into the evils of dance and sex.
* PassionPlay: Each scene is modeled after one Station of the Cross, following the Catholic tradition of how Jesus went from being condemned to death to his burial. The role of Jesus is played by the soon-to-be-Confirmed Maria, the Virgin Mary is played by her abusive mother, the righteous Simon of Cyrene is played by a sin-shaming priest, and the women of Jerusalem are condensed into a schoolboy who has a crush on Maria. Although each scene only loosely follows its respective station, [[ForegoneConclusion it ends as one would expect a Passion to]].
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Maria's church sees pop music as corrupted by "Satanic rhythms," so her gym teacher turns off the class's music so she can feel comfortable participating in class. The teacher tries to make a point about tolerance, but Maria's classmates ask how she isn't being intolerant by assuming their music is Satanic, and quickly dismiss a boy's appeal to religious freedom as an attempt to express his love for Maria.
%%* OminousLatinChanting:
* TheOner: All of the movie's fourteen scenes are in one shot, from the First Station to the Fourteenth. The Fourteenth distinguishes itself from the others with the positioning of the camera. [[spoiler:The camera begins rigidly focusing on Maria's tomb, before ascending over it, looking over the beauty of the Earth, and then moving upwards into the clouds, perhaps portraying Maria's ascent into Heaven or her liberation from the rigid and abusive upbringing her mother trapped her in]].
%%* ASaintCalledMary
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Maria's church has a very high bar for modesty and sexual purity, so when she begins to talk to a boy who likes her, her priest insists she's tempting him to lust and her mother screams at her until she cries over the dinner table. This abuse culminates in Maria asking the boy to never talk to her again and worry about his own soul, leaving Maria friendless.
%%* TheSkyIsDivine
* SuicideIsShameful: After years of being talked about the sinfulness of crushes, dancing, and fashion, Maria only hears about the sinfulness of killing's oneself on the eleventh station. Even though this is the only time the lovely Bernadette talks about sin, Maria refuses to believe her, because Maria only hope was that hear death would please God in the face of the insistence of her mother and priest that nearly everything Maria did with her life or wanted to do was sinful. If this final sacrifice was a sin alongside everything else, then Maria had no choice but to be evil, a thought she cannot bear.
* {{Tableu}}: Every scene is presented with a static shot of characters in dialogue, with little movement and detailed sets.
%%* WackyFundamentalistAntics:
-->--'''[[http://decentfilms.com/reviews/stationsofthecross Steven D. Greydanus]]'''
''Stations of the Cross'' is a German language film with fourteen shots, one per scene, with each one paralleling one [[PassionPlay Station of the Cross]][[note]]1. Jesus is condemned to death. 2. Jesus carries the Cross 3. Jesus falls for the first time 4. Jesus encounters his mother. 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross. 5. Jesus falls the second time? 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. 7. Jesus falls the second time. 8. Jesus meets the three women of Jerusalem 9. Jesus falls for the third time. 10. Jesus is stripped of his clothing. 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross. 12. Jesus dies on the Cross. 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross. 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb.[[/note]] The protagonist here is not UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, but Maria, a girl haunted by thoughts of sin and self-hatred as a result of her upbringing by her oppressive mother and the fundamentalist (and fictional) Priestly Society of St. Paul.
Anyone who knows how Jesus ends up in Literature/TheFourGospels has an idea where Maria's story is going, but the rather loose connection between each scene and each station, along with the film's subversion of religious imagery, makes it interesting to look at in the context of good ol' tropes.
----
* AbusiveParents: Maria's mother, despite her best intentions, berates her daughter and leaves her ashamed of her appearance, her growth, and her friendships.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: The priest who leads Maria's Confirmation study quotes Jesus's command to "Love God and thy neighbor as thyself" to make a point that even if people "fight under {{Satan}}'s flag," Maria and her classmates must do whatever they can to save their souls from the sufferings of Hell. The specific wording of the priest's phrase isn't found in Literature/TheFourGospels, but it's a fair contraction of Matthew 22:37-40, which is where "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" is deemed one of the the two Great Commandments. Fair enough, at least, that it creates a dissonance between the beauty of the scripture he quotes with the weight and anxiety his is putting on the already depressed Maria.
* {{Confessional}}: The fifth station, where Simon helps Jesus carry his cross, has Maria confess her sins to her traditionalist parish's young priest. Instead of the atmosphere of honesty and forgiveness typical to most Confessional scenes, the Fifth Station sees the priest interrogate Maria and extrapolate sins of lust from Maria's innocent crush on a school boy, leaving Maria more uncomfortable and convinced of her own sin than before she entered the booth. The scene, like all others in the movie, is made up of a single shot, this time focusing on a sideview of Maria's face as she speaks into the screen with the priest on the other side.
%%* CrucialCross
* DrivenToSuicide: Maria is so burdened by constant guilt over sin, attempts to repress any thought of her personal appearance, and the harsh criticisms of her mother that she sees the only way to be good would be to sacrifice her whole life to God, or in plainer words, kill herself. Despite talking about sacrificing herself to her priest, he can only say that God would like more people on Earth to help convert more people, with no attempt to understand or address Maria's emotional trouble.
%%* {{Envy}}:
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Maria's self-hatred and shame are the shadow of her worship for Bernadette, the family's beautiful, smart, funny ''au pair'' who's perfection is only furthered by the fact that she's not plain German like Maria is, she's ''French''.
* {{Fainting}}: As a result of her malnutrition and stress, Maria faints in front of the Archbishop at her Confirmation. Fittingly, the station here is "9. Jesus falls for the third time."
%%* FirstWords:
* ForegoneConclusion: The twelfth station is "UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} dies on the cross," and Maria's only solace is in her dream of sacrificing her whole life to God. Sure, there aren't a lot of Crucifixions now a days, but the film hardly hides what will happen to Maria by the twelfth station.
%%* {{Heaven}}:
* HenpeckedHusband: Maria's father says nothing in the movie that doesn't affirm his wife, who yells at her children and orders them around with nary a glance at her calmer husband. He seems troubled by his wife's
%%* HeroicSacrifice:
%%* HumanSacrifice:
* {{Irony}}: The twelfth station has Maria administered Holy Communion, the Bread of Life that Christ changes into his own Substance in order to nourish the soul of his followers so they may live eternally. [[spoiler:Maria chokes on the Bread of Life and dies.]]
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The camera doesn't move or cut within the movie's fourteen scenes, remaining as unmoving and distant as the impersonal teachings of Maria's fundamentalist parish. Even when a scene is set in a moving car, the camera barely moves. The only two exceptions are in the tenth station, where Maria moves from the pews to the altar for her Confirmation, and, more shockingly, [[spoiler:when the camera moves from Maria's grave to the beautiful fields and finally to the Heavens for the Fourteenth station]].
* LightIsGood:
** As opposed to the somber grays and blacks of Maria's family and clergy, the doctor who treats her and confronts her mother in the eleventh station is dressed in a startling white lab coat, in an office as clean, light, and comforting as him.
** The first thing Bernadette can think of when asked to describe Heaven is "a great light," before going on to describe how everyone sings and their hearts are filled with greta joy.
** Maria's mother insists her daughter is given a white dress in the thirteenth station, in order to show how objectively pure her sinless daughter is.
* MakeUpIsEvil: One of the most insistent teachings of Maria's church is that make-up, fashion, and dresses are self-absorbing topics that serve only to invoke lust in men and keep women from God.
%%This one up above is in like every scene so I might do a sub-bullet for each of them just on this one.
%%* NewMediaAreEvil:
* TheNewRockAndRoll: The Priestly Society of Saint Paul split from the Catholic Church in part because the Church began to incorporate secular music like that of Bach, gospel singers, and soul artists into the liturgy. The members of Saint Paul see these musical genres as being the instrument of the Devil, who uses their satanic rhythms and demonic baselines to seduce children into the evils of dance and sex.
* PassionPlay: Each scene is modeled after one Station of the Cross, following the Catholic tradition of how Jesus went from being condemned to death to his burial. The role of Jesus is played by the soon-to-be-Confirmed Maria, the Virgin Mary is played by her abusive mother, the righteous Simon of Cyrene is played by a sin-shaming priest, and the women of Jerusalem are condensed into a schoolboy who has a crush on Maria. Although each scene only loosely follows its respective station, [[ForegoneConclusion it ends as one would expect a Passion to]].
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Maria's church sees pop music as corrupted by "Satanic rhythms," so her gym teacher turns off the class's music so she can feel comfortable participating in class. The teacher tries to make a point about tolerance, but Maria's classmates ask how she isn't being intolerant by assuming their music is Satanic, and quickly dismiss a boy's appeal to religious freedom as an attempt to express his love for Maria.
%%* OminousLatinChanting:
* TheOner: All of the movie's fourteen scenes are in one shot, from the First Station to the Fourteenth. The Fourteenth distinguishes itself from the others with the positioning of the camera. [[spoiler:The camera begins rigidly focusing on Maria's tomb, before ascending over it, looking over the beauty of the Earth, and then moving upwards into the clouds, perhaps portraying Maria's ascent into Heaven or her liberation from the rigid and abusive upbringing her mother trapped her in]].
%%* ASaintCalledMary
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Maria's church has a very high bar for modesty and sexual purity, so when she begins to talk to a boy who likes her, her priest insists she's tempting him to lust and her mother screams at her until she cries over the dinner table. This abuse culminates in Maria asking the boy to never talk to her again and worry about his own soul, leaving Maria friendless.
%%* TheSkyIsDivine
* SuicideIsShameful: After years of being talked about the sinfulness of crushes, dancing, and fashion, Maria only hears about the sinfulness of killing's oneself on the eleventh station. Even though this is the only time the lovely Bernadette talks about sin, Maria refuses to believe her, because Maria only hope was that hear death would please God in the face of the insistence of her mother and priest that nearly everything Maria did with her life or wanted to do was sinful. If this final sacrifice was a sin alongside everything else, then Maria had no choice but to be evil, a thought she cannot bear.
* {{Tableu}}: Every scene is presented with a static shot of characters in dialogue, with little movement and detailed sets.
%%* WackyFundamentalistAntics:
