The Mission and the Atlantic World Studies

“The Mission” Analysis
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The movie "The Mission" provides a wealth of information on the historical circumstances surrounding the imposition of other cultures' colonial and political goals upon the indigenous people of Paraguay by the European nations. The movie created imaginable imperialism of the European countries where they did consider the welfare of the people living in those lands because they considered them nobodies. This chain of events begins when a group of troops (Spanish and Portuguese) break through the mission's defense and begin firing at the people who live there, in addition to seeing the death of Gabriel's coworker Rodrigo (played by Robert De Niro). In addition, Gabriel and the indigenous perish while a fire slowly destroys the mission amidst all this carnage. The Europeans imposed Spain and Portugal's political and theological systems on the Guaran people. The Guarani War, which serves as the movie's finale, was fought from 1754 to 1756. It depicts members of the Guaran tribe fighting against troops from the Spanish and the Portuguese in their territory. They were adamant about imposing the terms of the Treaty of Madrid of 1750 on their way of life and culture to fulfill the treaty's terms.
During the movie's first few minutes, the main attention is on an Indian settlement situated on the edge of a waterfall. The audience sees a Jesuit priest by the name of Father Gabriel, played by Jeremy Irons, while he is in the beginning stages of attempting to immerse himself into the culture of the Indian people to convert them to the faith practiced by the Jesuits finally. From a different perspective, the Spaniards are seen entering the native villages killing and capturing the people and transporting them back to Spain for sale to other people who will turn them into slaves. Both parties maintain similar habits for the duration of the film. One can see the development of the Jesuit priests' connection with the Indian communities as time goes on. In addition to teaching them about the Christian faith, the Jesuits were successful partly because they introduced behaviors from the new world to people who would have been considered barbaric under any other circumstances.
The movie touches on a broad variety of historical subjects, such as the Spanish and Portuguese colonization and invasions, as well as the church's role in the political and administrative processes of the time. The Treaty of Madrid, signed in 1750, is generally regarded as the event that laid the framework for expansionist Spanish and Portuguese foreign policy and imperialism into the new world, most notably Latin America. In the Treaty of Madrid, it was agreed that Spain and Portugal would work together to define the borders of the New World over Latin America, which was to be done in collaboration. This was a devastating catastrophe for the Guaran tribe and many of the resourceful indigenous peoples that resided across the continent of Latin America. The Guaran people could not accept being uprooted from their ancestral homeland; therefore, this did not go down well with them.
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