綜合各方面來說我還算喜歡這部的，但不能否認觀影時被“對演員觀感”影響了對劇情的理解及推斷，這亦歸根於片中沒有明確結論的作法。
關於一個教區內Meryl Streep的Sister Aloysius 及Amy Adams的Sister James兩位教職員懷疑Philip Seymour Hoffman的Father Flynn對黑人學生作出不軌行為後如何認對的故事。
有探討新舊教會對教育制度的分歧問題、有各人對於宗教信仰在生活上心理上不同的看法、有黑人家庭在白人社會的難處、有同性戀在舊時代社會被排斥的反映、有單純的人性掙扎及心理檢討，喜歡看情理可得到很大滿足。
全片最精彩毫無疑問是三大要角及Viola Davis的黑人母親Mrs. Miller一場又一場的對峙爭論及商談，改編自舞台劇對白仍然是精髓，加上嬴盡各大演技獎項提名的４名好演員絕佳演出，嘮嘮叨叨也令人享受非常，尤其是MS跟PSH的廿分鐘對辯，明明沒近視卻不自覺凝神咪眼靜聽，幾乎不想錯過任何一絲情緒表情口氣的詮釋，真是爽快非常的演技車拚！
由於對PSH一直以來的奸相狂人印象（加上腦裡裝著太多髒思想=P），很早段我就跟MS意見一致，認為此人
一定 Guilty，對於最後一刻MS的動搖我同樣措手不及。Open Ending得真狠。>..< 這部片要說的信仰不止宗教教義，而是作為人、作為主內侍工、作為母親、作為教育者，甚或作為弱勢社群一位友善的朋友，你所持的信仰及懷疑到底會變化到什麼地步。 下面Quote一段PSH第２次帶彌撒時的說詞，我 非 常 喜 歡 這段：
Father Brendan Flynn: A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man they hardly knew; I know none of you have ever done this. That night, she had a dream. A great hand appeared over her, and pointed down on her. She was immediately seized with a overwhelming sense of guilt. The next day, she went to confession. She got the old perish priest, Father Arrorick, and she told him the whole thing.
"Is gossiping a sin?" She asked the old man. "Was that God All Mighty's hand pointing down at me? Should I ask for your absolution, father? Have I dont something wrong?"
"Yes." Father Arrorick answered her. "Yes, you ignorant, badly brought up female. You have blamed false witness on your neighbor. You played fast and loose with his reputation, and you should be heartily ashamed." So the woman said she was sorry, and asked for forgiveness.
"Not so fast." says Arrorick. "I want you to go home, take a pillow upon your roof, cut it open with a knife, and return here to me." So the woman went home, took a pillow off her bed, a knife from the drawer, went up the fire escape to her roof, and stabbed the pillow. Then she went back to the old perish priest as instructed.
"Did you cut the pillow with a knife?" He says.
"Yes, father."
"And what were the results?"
"Feathers." she said.
"Feathers?" he repeated.
"Feathers, everywhere, father."
"Now I want you to go back, and gather up every last feather the flew out on the wind."
"Well," she said, "It can't be done. I don't know where they went. The wind took them all over."
"And that," said Father Arrorick, "Is gossip."謹遵。=]
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故事取材自Alex Prud'homme的My Life in France及網路作家Julie Powell的兩個真實故事。
