I really, really enjoyed Conclave, maybe because I was raised Catholic? I describe it as "Mean Girls, but in the Vatican." I also was a massive fan of The Americans. I am also a massive fan of resisting the urge to overwrite, to explain and spell out every single little detail/symbol/metaphor/meaning in my writing...especially with poems, I usually end up going back in and taking out a good chunk of expository language!
I wasn't raised Catholic, but I am a sucker for movies about clerics. Because how do you rectify a pure faith with a vocation? And I think the overwriting thing is endemic to a lot of us. Always will be, in my case.
I really, really enjoyed Conclave, maybe because I was raised Catholic? I describe it as "Mean Girls, but in the Vatican." I also was a massive fan of The Americans. I am also a massive fan of resisting the urge to overwrite, to explain and spell out every single little detail/symbol/metaphor/meaning in my writing...especially with poems, I usually end up going back in and taking out a good chunk of expository language!
I wasn't raised Catholic, but I am a sucker for movies about clerics. Because how do you rectify a pure faith with a vocation? And I think the overwriting thing is endemic to a lot of us. Always will be, in my case.