https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-james-gray-the-immigrant/ What to Watch Sat, 01 May 2021 23:04:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-james-gray-the-immigrant/#comment-626797 Sat, 01 May 2021 23:04:55 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24309#comment-626797 […] In an interview, Gray said of The Immigrant, “I always felt the story was really about was two things: this idea that nobody is beneath redemption and that this co-dependent relationship would ensnare these two people.” As the film progresses, the relationship between Ewa and Bruno becomes more complex and dysfunctional, and the film’s Catholic philosophy becomes increasingly clear. The fundamental ethos of Catholicism in its purest form—that people are sinners but can always, no matter how grave their transgression, be redeemed—is the animating idea of The Immigrant. Its philosophical approach transcends the specific particulars of the Church, instead acquiring an operatic, metaphorical scale. The second half of the film revolves around two confessions, one by Ewa and one by Bruno; one given formally, in a confessional booth, and one spontaneously, out of pure emotion. Together, they illuminate the limitations of the Church and the wider redemptive possibilities of the philosophy of forgiveness. […]

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