How <em>The Two Popes </em>Condemns Current-Day Authoritarianism
The film’s references to radical pedagogical texts can be read as a subtle rebuke of Brazil’s <em>Bolsonarismo</em>.
In ,a recent feature film produced by Netflix, Father Jorge Bergoglio is sent into the wilderness, where he wanders alone in the Argentine mountains for two years. During an intense process of spiritual rebirth—crucial to his transformation into Pope Francis—he turns to radical books of the very kind he had cleared out of the Jesuit order in the late 1970s, during the military dictatorship in Argentina. In one scene, the camera pauses briefly on the cover of one volume: 1968’s , by Paulo Freire, the educator whose legacy the current Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, spent
