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Dorothy Day is no saint. She lives hard, makes mistakes, endures the consequences. But the unquenchable fire burning within her cannot be contained. Dorothy Day wants to make a difference. During the Depression, she vows to house the homeless, feed the hungry, tend the sick. Easily said. Not easily done. Yet, Dorothy persists, walking frequently on stormy waters of faith.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
five course meal for a hungry mind!
6 April 2005
this movie is beyond inspirational. I had to watch it for a college religion class and I wasn't looking forward to it but I was extremely pleasantly surprised. I am not catholic but I am a Christian and this movie inspired me to live by the extreme Biblical standards that I have heard all my life. dorothy day actually lived those. she struggled, she cared, she worked. she is everything that I hope to be one day.
watch this movie and see a person that truly cares about other people more than herself! that is a heroic feat!
watch this movie and see a person that truly cares about other people more than herself! that is a heroic feat!
38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Contains a powerful message that we all need to learn
24 July 2005
An acquaintance at my (non-Catholic) church told me recently about a wonderful, saintly woman that he had known many years ago, who had devoted her life to helping the poor. When he said that her name was Dorothy Day, it didn't really ring a bell. But a few days later this movie was on a cable channel, and I knew that I had to watch this.
The movie totally blew me away! It was great seeing Dorothy slowly learning to accept a form of religion, then trying to apply that to her life. It seemed as though the more she applied the lessons, the tougher the lessons got. And the ultimate lesson of the movie was one of compassion: how can you care for people who won't care for themselves? How can you feed and give shelter to winos, prostitutes, drug addicts, and the insane? Add to this the difficulties presented by the Depression, and the fact that most people at that time thought that Dorothy was either evil or foolish.
I enjoyed the way that they portrayed the lead characters as being well-meaning but sometimes less than perfect, having doubts along the way about whether their actions really had any value (in other words, they were depicted realistically). Watching the movie, you can't help but learn vicariously through Dorothy's actions, evolving as she's evolving, until she reaches that level where she can finally see the good in everyone.
This is something that we all need to learn. We can't all become a Dorothy Day or a Peter Maurin (her mentor), but at least we can try to move in the right direction.
The movie totally blew me away! It was great seeing Dorothy slowly learning to accept a form of religion, then trying to apply that to her life. It seemed as though the more she applied the lessons, the tougher the lessons got. And the ultimate lesson of the movie was one of compassion: how can you care for people who won't care for themselves? How can you feed and give shelter to winos, prostitutes, drug addicts, and the insane? Add to this the difficulties presented by the Depression, and the fact that most people at that time thought that Dorothy was either evil or foolish.
I enjoyed the way that they portrayed the lead characters as being well-meaning but sometimes less than perfect, having doubts along the way about whether their actions really had any value (in other words, they were depicted realistically). Watching the movie, you can't help but learn vicariously through Dorothy's actions, evolving as she's evolving, until she reaches that level where she can finally see the good in everyone.
This is something that we all need to learn. We can't all become a Dorothy Day or a Peter Maurin (her mentor), but at least we can try to move in the right direction.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Great Teaching Tool
16 Mar 2006
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I've been using this video for years in the context of morality and social justice religious studies courses. The movie is a good representation of Dorothy Day's life though it gets rather melodramatic at the end. It does a great job illustratiing the transformation that happens in Dorothy's life and how she and Peter Maurin develop the Catholic Worker together. Another critique would be that Maruin's role in the process is minimized but it is, after all, a movie about Day, not Maurin who generally gets less credit than Day. The movie certainly opens up a lot of discussion about faith, transformation and our call to social justice.
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