Joseph Hancock - The Two Popes

I thought "The Two Popes" was an interesting film. However, it wasn't an entirely accurate film. The actual interaction between the two Popes and their relationship is fictionalized, while the history that surrounds them wasn't. I think that's fair. You can take the interactions as something that could have happened instead of definitely happened, or at least get the idea behind why these interactions could have occurred. It's much like how the actual Bible probably didn't occur literally, but the stories are more metaphorical. I enjoyed the interactions, even knowing they were fake. And even if the history is also dramatized, I still think it gets the broad strokes correct. Considering I new almost nothing about the past of the current Pope, I think that means I still learned something new from this film. 

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