Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

meyerhoo512 This is directed to Braindog... All I have to say is...have you ever been sexually abused? NOTHING is black and white. You have shown your utter ignorance in your review. I have not yet seen this film but after reading the reviews, I am very interested in seeing it. I have to say though, that I was completely blown away by Braindog's comment. If anyone has personally experienced sexual abuse, either personally or through a close friend, then they would know that it's not as simple as Braindog makes it seem. When the church is a huge part of one's life from the time they very little, even after something horrible happens by a respected member of the church, the person is not absolutely ready to reject the whole of the church by that one member's atrocity. There is separation and compartmentalization that occurs between the church as a whole and the offender who is a part of the church. The fact that one of the people highlighted in the film kept attending the church and had his daughter's First Communion in the church makes complete sense to me. Think of it this way. Are you willing to walk away from your family when one of them hurts you? Yes, the hurt is CONSIDERABLY less and completely in a different vain, but what if that parent hit you or verbally abused you throughout your life...you still feel a connection to that person or a connection to the family...most aren't willing to just walk away from the family for forever. To me, it's all about empathizing. Even though you may not have reacted a certain way, don't judge and put down others for what they did. And, you never know what you may do until you have "walked a mile in another's shoes."

jotix100 It's shocking to learn the amount of abuse inflicted by a lot of Catholic priests in the past. There's not a day when one hears about a new case as the abused come forward to accuse what criminal men did to them years ago. Kerby Dick, a brave film maker, takes his camera to a group of people that were the victims of one priest when they were teen agers.The documentary concentrates on Tony Comes, who finally had the courage to go on record to denounce his abuse. He had plenty of company, or so it seems. In fact, their bishop, who should have taken care in dealing with the corrupt priest, didn't do anything to prevent. In fact, this man chose the easy way out by ignoring the accusations.Wendy Comes, Tony's wife, is deeply affected when she learns the extent of what her husband suffered in the past. In fact, Wendy was wounded when she discovered the truth. In fact, she had converted to Catholicism when she married Tony. In spite of their trauma, we watch as the Comes' young daughter making her first communion, accompanied by her parents.Kirby Dick deserves to be congratulated for showing us how the actions of some evil individuals ruined lives by what they did to children who trusted them and saw in them role models.

perlix A great, moving movie! Kirby Dick's films have always shown not only a light touch but an unerring impulse for the right emotional detail, revealing gesture and sense of when to pull back. In "Twist of Faith" he lets the points make themselves: the Church condones child abuse, they cover their tracks and lie about it. Dick's use of church music is especially telling, as is his judicious implementation of his "chain camera" technique: giving subjects their own video-cams to record their thoughts, document outward aspects of their lives and make occasional but heartbreaking confession. If only Art could make Change! Now THAT would be a Twist.

Dfredsparks I found this documentary to be well done, saddening, but also in the end inspirational. It seemed at least that this family committed to working things out even though things were difficult. I also found it to be a stinging indictment of the conduct of church officials, conduct unfortunately not limited to this particular circumstance. In my opinion, the Church as a body has not done nearly enough to express its sorrow and regret at the wholesale lack of action taken against known child abusers. I think that the RICO statutes should be used to prosecute many church leaders who took part in these cover-ups. The Church in Rome basically acts like none of this happened and still wants to hold itself out as some sort of moral authority. I don't buy it.