Romero

             The movie Romero is about a priest named Oscar Romero, and all of his fellow priestess, who are trying to stop all of the violence going on in the country of El Salvador. The violence erupted due to the fact that a new government was going to be instituted, into the country and the gorillas were not going to allow that to happen, so they started killing anyone who was against them, or who wanted to vote for the other government, or anyone who got in there way.
             20th century El Salvador, is enduring bloodshed and havoc. Insurgent Communist rebels compete with paramilitary squads and the oligarchy for control of the tiny Central American nation. Priests and the flock they lead are caught in the middle. Those who cry for justice are photographed and marked for extinction because they speak the language of Marxism. Archbishop Romero recognizes that Marxists and the ruling oligarchy are merely obverse sides of the same coin-- ideologies who rule by force contrary to the rule of God. He is equally harsh with Communist sympathizers as he is with the paramilitary squads who rape, torture and execute advocates of justice and human rights.
             In one scene, he arrives at a church which has been turned into an army barracks. He announces that he has come to remove the Blessed Sacrament. A belligerent soldier responds by unloading a round of bullets into the tabernacle and shatters the crucifix hanging above the altar. Romero stands transfixed, astonished at the utter desecration, then leaves. He pauses outside where a crowd has gathered, unsure as he himself is what he will do next.
             The conflict of the movie Romero, is the struggle of the people of the country trying to make there voices heard , and trying to accomplish what they started, which is to instate a new government into the country . The gorillas toke charge and kill Romero while he was giving the word of God to his nuns. After the death of Romero, the town people did not have a leader...

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