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Julian (Sebastián Aguirre) is young and still pure in heart, and he wants to become a priest - so his parents send him to the boarding school of Los Cruzados de Cristo, to learn to become the perfect servant of the Lord. And he's doing good as a seminarian, too, good enough to attract the attention of the seminar's head Father Angel de la Cruz (Juan Manuel Bernal), who makes him his favourite, soon has him live under his own roof, and win his absolute trust - so far so that Julian even spies on his fellow seminarians, who, all in their pre-adolescence to adolescence, only start to discover their bodily urges without knowing what's right or wrong (in the eyes of the church). And there are those who are punished thanks to Julian, who though believes he's in the right enough that he doesn't consider it a wrong thing to rat on his friends. However, Father Angel is far from a saint himself, Julian catches him drinking, having sex, even doing drugs - but he's under the priest's spell, and takes each and every of his lame excuses for gospel. And the priest knows about the boy's unconditional obedience, and soon soothes him into doing him sexual favours as well ...

Perfect Obedience is quite a remarkable film since it sheds a whole different light on sexual abuse in the Catholic church - and by no means an apologetic one in the least, even though the film dares to break up the usual predator/victim dichotomy to take a very sympathetic look into what might be going on in the mind of the victim who's too young to know better to make himself an at times willing accomplice, and how does the sexual predator use the boy's innocence relying on things other than sheer power - and this is all done in a very subtle way, a way that tells the story and leaves it to the audience to pass judgment. And the central performances really carry that way of storytelling, too, making this an interesting film to watch, which will probably take a long time to digest - so well worth a look for sure!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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