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Throwback Thursday: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of a Truly Compelling Film
Because I refuse to admit defeat
Stubborn determination can be a good thing. Thomas Edison failed more than 1,000 times while attempting to invent the light bulb, and a dozen publishers rejected the manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; we all know how those two things ultimately turned out. Closer to home, after 51 years of futility, my Texas Rangers finally won the World Series last fall. It can pay to refuse to give up.
The three examples above are just a few of the reasons that, despite all evidence to the contrary, I continue to believe that I will eventually hit one out of the park with my monthly Throwback Thursday article (and I promise that’s the last baseball reference you’ll find here). I almost screwed up and let April pass without a throwback installment, but scrolling through Netflix last night saved me (procrastination sometime has its benefits).
While searching for a documentary about Pope John Paul II (I am a documentary nerd), I stumbled across a film I saw toward the end of the pandemic: The Two Popes, a fictional account of a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis. My first thought was that I should write about it; my second thought was that I already…
