Review of The Innocents (1961) by Netflic — 14 Jul 2016

This movie is based on real events.

It is December 1945, the deadliest of all wars is over, but its aftermath is felt everywhere.
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Matilda, a French Red Cross medical worker, is in Poland attending to last French survivors in German camps. She finds herself helping local Catholic nuns who got pregnant when Soviet troops liberated Poland, and considered local women trophy prizes for getting rid of Nazis. 
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This movie is about how faith and modern world collide. Can faith survive when God's abandonment becomes apparent? Can God forgive sins committed without intent? (in this case, knowing a man and getting pregnant, albeit through rape). 
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Similarly to how many Jews lost their beliefs in God after Holocaust, these Catholic nuns are having a faith crisis trying to understand how God allowed such a grief caused on his faithful servants.

I liked the movie a lot. Maybe a bit too long; and the happy end seemed a bit trite. Nevertheless, my score is 8 out of 10.