Certainly he means well, but he’s encouraging people to make themselves vulnerable and trust their secrets-nay, their very souls-to him, a privilege he hasn’t earned. Watching Daniel fake his way through his first meeting with the elder priest, you’ll find yourself holding your breath, hoping he’ll tell the right lies.Īlong those lines, “Corpus Christi” raises intriguing questions about when it’s OK to fudge the truth-or in Daniel’s case, fabricate an entire persona and represent yourself as an ordained man of faith. Soon he’s donning a clerical collar and agreeing to take over at the parish when the aging vicar (Zdzislaw Wardejn) becomes ill. In no time, the same streetwise survival instincts that got him in trouble as a kid kick in, and he tells a young woman praying near him ( Eliza Rycembel) that he’s a priest-quite convincingly, actually. But you can practically see the light bulb go on over Daniel’s head when he hears the priest’s powerful words, and rather than report for duty at the small-town sawmill where he has a job lined up, he walks into the Catholic church, kneels down in a pew and begins praying. Having experienced a spiritual epiphany behind bars, he’d like to pursue a career in the clergy, which his mentor, Father Tomasz ( Lukasz Simlat), tells him is impossible because he’s been a convict.
Daniel leaves the correctional center at age 20 after serving time for unnamed crimes.
The script from Mateusz Pacewicz is inspired by true events, although it sounds like an insane premise.
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