I guess that I am on a posthumous celebration of Sidney Poitier. My Mom and I watched Lilies of the Field last night. I remember seeing this movie as a child and I remember singing, “AMEN” at the dining room table in jest with my Dad and two of my brothers. It was my Dad and, “The three little ones.”
I was taken with this movie and I was appreciative to see it as an adult who has more understanding of the events taking place:
As a child, I did not understand this nun’s faith. Absolute faith. And I liked watching it unfold!
It is a very simple set and the majority of the movie is set in the dining room at the table. It was so familiar to me to watch because I remember watching it as a child but now I understand what’s going on and I was extremely takenand continued watching even as my Mom was working in the kitchen and even when she laid down for a nap.
This scene really got to me!:
In the scene where they are discussing his pay for the work he has done and he wants to move on. The verse she quoted in Matthew is it also underlined in my Parent’s Bible! I sat there watching the movie was such Attention and I really felt like I was “churched” until the very end!
I told my Mom that, I am being #Churched by and over 60 year old movie! They even addressed race relations. Seeing that this movie came out in January of 1963, we had a long and tumultuous road ahead of us that we still seem to be on even today:
I saw this movie because it was free on one of the streaming applications on my TV. I will leave the trailer here if you feel so inclined to watch: