I know a Catholic convert who really values the security of the global liberal order and the values of tolerance against “the serious danger of encroaching Islam” or whatever and I think it’s cool that someone made a movie that kinda wants to wrestle with the contradiction between those views but wants to be an in-flight movie for your dad to enjoy way more. Not exactly sure of this movie’s political stance (it might be some Lockheed Martin Pride Month type shit idk) but definitely want to know the exact dates of every single draft of the screenplay, I think this would go a long way towards helping me figure this out. Obviously this whole thing is primarily concerned with the rituals and hierarchies of power that serve themselves rather than the wider world, but the first half of the movie was really impressing me with just how granular that focus on the labor and who’s doing it for whom got (a montage of the sisters preparing food for the titular conclave really stuck with me), and I was a bit bummed that that awareness seemed to get pushed to the side as the stakes got more and more ludicrous (the way the film’s Doubting Thomas is punished for succumbing to his cynicism… absurd).