The Mission is a very sad and interesting movie, based on a true event. During the 18Th century a Spanish Jesuit, Father Gabriel goes into the Brazilian wilderness. There he builds a mission hoping to convert the Guarani natives into Christians. Mendoza is a slave trader who out of rage ends up killings his own brother, once he discovers that he has been sleeping with his wife. Father Gabriel prevents Mendoza from killing himself by converting him into a Jesuit priest. Mendoza joins the mission and vows to never again participate in an act of violence. By having to carry armor and weapons, tied in a satchel and attached to his waist he proves to everyone he is ready to be a priest. The church, under pressure, surrenders the land to the Portuguese which plan is to allow slave trade again. The Portuguese attack the Guarani in attempt of destroying the mission. Mendoza breaks his vow and organizes the natives to resist the Portuguese attack, against Father Gabriel’s orders, but they all end up dying anyway.
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The geography of the movie The Mission affected a few components in the live of the Guarani. The Guarani tribe was hidden from the rest of the world because of where it was located. It took a while for Spanish to find the Guarani because they were so well protected by the huge jungle, large cliffs and waterfalls that surrounded the tribe's home in Brazil. Also geography separated Brazil and Spain, because they were simply continents away and more than 4,000 miles apart from each other.
The Jesuit
missionaries made some moral and immoral decisions that led to interesting things in the movie. The Jesuits truly believed that if you didn't believe in god, you where going to go to hell. They were simply trying to help the Guarani, so to them it seemed a moral decision to convert the Guarani into Christians. In the long run the poor Guarani were killed by the Portuguese, who just wanted to enslave the native people and take their land. what the Portuguese did was immoral and unjust.
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