Review of Casanova

Casanova (2005)
7/10
There's no need to apologize for the Inquisition.
14 February 2008
It's almost unbelievable that this movie got an R rating in the States, but such is the state we are in, isn't it? As for the user who claims that this movie does not make fun of the Catholic Church, there is no need for such apologizing. For was it not Pope Innocent III who said, "Use against heretics the spiritual sword of excommunication, and if this does not prove effective, use the material sword"? Did Pope Paul IV not proclaim, "If my own father were a heretic, I would personally gather the wood to burn him"? Then again, Protestantism is not much above the bloodlust, either. Martin Luther, the father of Protestant Christianity, said, "No one need think that the world cannot be ruled without blood. The civil sword can and must be red and bloody." He also stated, "Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed." So let's leave religion out of a movie, and enjoy it for the fun that it is. If we're dealing blames, we'll be here past sundawn.
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