Was The Mission Historically Accurate

The Mission is a movie about a Jesuit missionary and the colonial forces of Spain and Portugal. The Mission took place in South America in the eighteenth century. The Spanish and the Portuguese people were competing for the land that the indians were on while two missionaries were trying to convert the indians to Christianity. The movie was actually very historically accurate to what happened. The movie showed the war and what caused it in an very accurate way. In the beginning a missionary was sent over the Iguazu Falls by the indians. After that Father Gabriel begins his mission to find the guarani indians and convert them to Christianity. After climbing the falls he reaches the land where the indians live. At first the indians planned to kill him but then he played his oboe and they decided to let him live and he quickly started gaining their trust. The guarani indians were very little clothing and most of them had necklaces. They also had black …show more content…
Mendoza thought differently and broke the vows that he had taken for the mission. Mendoza thought that fighting was the right answer and started teaching the indians how to fight. When the Spanish and Portuguese people attack the indians are no match and Mendoza who is in charge gets injured. As Mendoza had the indians fighting Father Gabriel gathered the women and children and started singing slowly. The Portuguese killed Father Gabriel first and then killed moth of the indians while a few got away. In the end the indians that escaped come back to gather some of their belongings and then leave. This is also historically accurate because there was a war between Spain, Portugal, and the indians. Overall the movie The Mission was a good movie and it showed a lot of historical accuracies. It showed the war and the steps leading up to it. Together the movie and the research were descriptive so the movie was easy to