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This is a film that is based on a few missionaries that went to the Paraguayan jungle to convert the Guaraní community. I watched this film after looking at the guidelines for this review. While watching the film I was paying close attention to the film to see any evidence of it being historical in a way. The Misson, the film directed by Roland Joffé, is almost historically correct with including what the Jesuits did as missionaries to the Guaraní community. The main character played by Robert de Niro,  was against the missionaries and was actually out hunting and capturing the Guaraní community as “indentured servants” for the Portuguese. He would later become a Jesuit priest and help Guaraní community convert over to Christianity. The film ends like any Hollywood film would end. The Jesuits all fought back and died as martyrs. After the film was over my professor explained that the Jesuits did not, in fact, fight back like they did in the film. Even while watching the film I had my doubts about what really happened with the Jesuits. The action scenes were very Hollywood with Robert de Niro making these makeshift cannons and traps for the enemy. In all, the film did portray the Jesuits in a way many people can accept due to them interacting with real natives from another country (Guaraní community were not involved in the movie as actors due to the massacre that happened in the film). I would recommend this movie to any history buff or anyone that is interest in a film about Jesuits doing mission work.