19 Half remembered movies
For most movies I don’t remember the whole story. But snatches
of it are liable to come back without notice. Like this one from the
film "Oscar Romero".
When he became a bishop Oscar Romero was well connected. He was
welcome in influential circles. The powerful looked to him with
respect. This changed when , with the help of some of his priests, he
began to side with the poor.
He began to speak for those who dared not raise their voice. They had
tried but they had been trampled into submission. Now they were
afraid. Afraid to speak out, afraid to complain and especially afraid
to vote. Slowly and carefully it was explained that they would be
safe, that buses would collect them, that the journey would hold no
risk. And as the buses started out, hope was rising, faces were
lighting up, the threshold of a new day was coming into view.
Then the military stopped the buses and refused to let them pass.
The fragile confidence of the people which had been so slowly and so
painstakingly rekindled was once again being snuffed out in a single
act of arbitrary repression. Oscar Romero was crushed. He
couldn’t take it anymore. There on the side of the road he fell
to his knees and he prayed: "Lord I can’t, you must."
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