The Mission

00:51:11,655 --> 00:51:13,532 Your Holiness is offended... 177 00:51:13,699 --> 00:51:17,995 ...because it may distract from that paradise which comes hereafter. 178 00:51:18,162 --> 00:51:21,248 The Spanish and Portuguese kings are offended... 179 00:51:21,415 --> 00:51:25,752 ...because a paradise of the poor is seldom pleasing to those who rule. 180 00:51:25,919 --> 00:51:30,007 And the settlers here are offended for the same reason. 181 00:51:30,174 --> 00:51:33,594 So it was this burden I carried to South America: 182 00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,431 To satisfy the Portuguese wish to enlarge their empire... 183 00:51:37,598 --> 00:51:41,685 ...to satisfy the Spanish desire that this would do them no harm... 184 00:51:41,852 --> 00:51:43,687 ...to satisfy Your Holiness... 185 00:51:43,854 --> 00:51:48,317 ...that these monarchs would threaten no more the power of the church... 186 00:51:48,484 --> 00:51:51,528 ...and to ensure for you all... 187 00:51:51,695 --> 00:51:57,784 ...that the Jesuits here could no longer deny you these satisfactions. 188 00:51:57,951 --> 00:52:01,371 I've spent half my life waiting for Rome. 189 00:52:01,538 --> 00:52:04,249 Stop playing with that. 190 00:52:04,708 --> 00:52:08,712 - What time is it? - Calm down. 191 00:52:08,879 --> 00:52:10,839 Ten to. 192 00:52:11,924 --> 00:52:14,927 Let me see how the children are doing. 193 00:52:15,552 --> 00:52:17,346 Good. 194 00:52:39,618 --> 00:52:41,870 Twenty-four. 195 00:52:43,705 --> 00:52:45,791 Thirty-nine. 196 00:53:11,859 --> 00:53:13,819 Over there, please. 197 00:53:24,788 --> 00:53:28,292 - Those are Guarani? - Yes, Your Eminence. 198 00:53:28,458 --> 00:53:31,295 - Extraordinary. - What? 199 00:53:31,461 --> 00:53:34,715 Very difficult to tell what they're thinking. 200 00:53:34,882 --> 00:53:37,634 - Have you found this, Señor Hontar? - I have. 201 00:53:37,801 --> 00:53:40,804 I had that reaction when I first came, Your Eminence. 202 00:53:42,556 --> 00:53:46,143 Pretty creature. She'll fetch a lot of money in Lisbon. 203 00:53:46,310 --> 00:53:49,980 Yes. Well, perhaps she doesn't want to go to Lisbon. 204 00:53:50,147 --> 00:53:52,483 Perhaps not. 205 00:53:53,525 --> 00:53:57,404 Well, Your Eminence, as to the missions... 206 00:53:57,571 --> 00:54:02,409 We expect no political difference between the Papacy, Spain and Portugal? 207 00:54:02,576 --> 00:54:04,244 Why should there be? 208 00:54:04,411 --> 00:54:08,957 Between ourselves, Your Eminence, the Jesuits are too powerful here. 209 00:54:09,875 --> 00:54:11,585 Indeed? 210 00:54:13,795 --> 00:54:15,797 Well, if you'll excuse me, gentlemen... 211 00:54:15,964 --> 00:54:18,300 Your Eminence. 212 00:54:18,717 --> 00:54:21,178 By the way, gentlemen... 213 00:54:22,054 --> 00:54:24,848 ...I myself was a Jesuit once. 214 00:54:36,068 --> 00:54:38,612 So I had arrived in South America... 215 00:54:38,779 --> 00:54:41,782 ...my head replete with the matters of Europe. 216 00:54:41,949 --> 00:54:46,578 But I soon began to understand, for the first time... 217 00:54:46,745 --> 00:54:51,333 ...what a strange world I had been sent to judge. 218 00:55:35,335 --> 00:55:39,715 Don Cabeza, how can you possibly refer to this child as an animal? 219 00:55:39,882 --> 00:55:41,967 A parrot can be taught to sing, Your Eminence. 220 00:55:43,427 --> 00:55:47,681 Yes, but how does one teach it to sing as melodiously as this? 221 00:55:50,559 --> 00:55:52,436 Your Eminence. 222 00:55:54,146 --> 00:55:57,941 This is a child of the jungle, an animal with a human voice. 223 00:55:58,108 --> 00:56:00,861 If it were human, an animal would cringe at its vices. 224 00:56:01,028 --> 00:56:04,114 These creatures are lethal and lecherous. 225 00:56:04,406 --> 00:56:08,160 They have to be subdued by the sword and brought to labor by the whip. 226 00:56:08,327 --> 00:56:11,413 What they say is sheer nonsense. 227 00:56:13,582 --> 00:56:16,251 Father Gabriel, of the mission... 228 00:56:16,460 --> 00:56:19,838 ...of San Carlos, from which the boy comes. 229 00:56:20,130 --> 00:56:22,007 And that is where? 230 00:56:27,763 --> 00:56:31,016 That is here. Above the falls, in Spanish territory. 231 00:56:31,183 --> 00:56:36,104 No, that is territory which used to be Spanish. Now it's Portuguese. 232 00:56:36,271 --> 00:56:41,276 - That is for His Eminence to decide. - No, that is a state matter. 233 00:56:41,443 --> 00:56:47,366 It was decided by the Treaty of Madrid and concluded by Spain and Portugal. 234 00:56:47,533 --> 00:56:50,452 But surely the missions will remain under church protection? 235 00:56:50,619 --> 00:56:56,250 That is what His Eminence is here to decide, Father Gabriel. 236 00:57:02,923 --> 00:57:05,509 Continue, Father. 237 00:57:09,263 --> 00:57:13,851 Your Emin