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_{35-43/100 GIFS of Tom Hardy – The Reckoning}

I had to go look this up – damn, what a CAST! How come I’ve never heard of this?

Paul Bettany, Simon McBurney, Tom Hardy, Brian Cox, Willem Dafoe, Vincent Cassel, Richard Durden…!

In 14th-century England, a young monk breaks his vow of chastity and flees the wrath of his bishop and fellow monks. A fugitive priest, he then witnesses the murder of a traveling performer–and subsequently, the mourning of actor by his fellow troupe members. He eventually becomes initiated into the troupe as a player, replacing the murdered man. They travel from town to town performing their standard morality play. They arrive in a town where a boy has been killed and a young deaf-mute girl has been imprisoned for the crime–sentenced to death for witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover that the townspeople know the young woman did not, in fact, commit the murder. The stage becomes a place where vital human truth is told. Thus, simultaneously, the fugitive priest comes to terms with his own crime and makes a powerful sacrifice, thereby redeeming himself. Written by Sujit R. Varma

[In our house, anything non-genre (especially period!) gets a 1.0 point handicap on imdb, cause we’ve noticed a site-wide prejudice toward genre movies…   This was rated 6.6 – so call it 7.6.  I’ll watch a 7.6 rated movie in a heartbeat]

Currently available on Netflix. Cool.

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Tags: the reckoning.

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