The Mission
American Christian missionary John Chau was murdered when he tried to illegally contact and convert some of the world’s last uncontacted indigenous people. Through exclusive interviews and archival footage of John’s journey, THE MISSION explores themes that strike deep at the heart of religion, colonialism, and anthropology, questioning where we draw the line between faith and fanaticism, exploration and exploitation, imagination and destruction.
- Released: 2023-10-13
- Runtime: 103 minutes
- Genre: Documentaries
- Stars:
- Director: Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine
Comments
- tfrj14 - 13 January 2024
Terribly done
What a horrible doc. This could have been so interesting but they spent 90% of it on his background and 10% on the actual mission. What a waste.
How do the filmmakers not realize what is interesting about this story? It isn't John, or his father's journal. An hour in, and we're still nowhere near him actually attempting to go to the island. Then they just skate through that part, completely leaving out the most interesting details of the story.
Man, this was frustrating. Complete and total waste of time. You will learn more about north sentinel and this story from five minutes on Wikipedia. Hopefully someone remakes this story properly. - vikrant-korde - 12 December 2023
Glorification of hopeless act
I started watching this documentary to see the glimpse of sentinal island. However i think what they are showing is just another fake island. This is pure waste of 1hr 40 mins. In the start of this documentary the character says " is this the last fort of devil?" why devil? It is untouched nature just let it be as is. Why do john wants to destroy it?
This documentry (?) glorifies the foolish act of spreading christianity where it is not needed. Why do missionaries want to force their views on world? Why do this john character wanted to enforce his beliefs on people who are kept protected from world? He endangered them by visiting that place. I do not understand the purpose of this documentary. It looks like director wanted to showcase how that fool was having a strong faith and what he did was to spread his beliefs (unncessarily on others)
