Mala Educación [Bad Education] (2004)

RATING:	80%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Excellent overview of the parlous affects a Christian education can have on the emotionally sensitive. The endemic sexual, political and emotional intolerance of Christians is well-displayed by a child-molesting priest who is being blackmailed by a former choirboy, transvestite and drug addict for money to pay for a sex-change operation.

Director Pedro Almodovar is humanistic enough to go below the surface of each character - no matter how loathsome - to tell us something about the human condition. In particular, that the past has effects in the present - be they good or bad - and that these simply have to be come-to-terms with, either way.

The themes are not as fully explored in terms of causative issues as they are concerning affects, but this is still worth a long, lingering look.

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