Calvary is a great film that should probably be watched repeatedly, but it is so fundamentally depressing that you will need to be made of stern stuff to do so. Once was enough for me-a dog dies. Calvary is a kind of retelling of the Christ story-the idea that an innocent willingly dies to redeem an awful group of people that the innocent loves in spite of their awfulness, but it is also challenging the idea of goodness and innocence. Calvary focuses on a good priest. What makes him good? He cares about the people in his parish, is a good though imperfect father and most importantly isn’t a child molester. Did he do enough to prevent abuse? Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” So even though this good priest didn’t actively hurt his community, the implication is that in order to redeem the role of the church and himself in this Irish community, he has to pay the piper. As Calvary progresses, I wondered why anyone bothered with the pretense of going to church. The congregants are proud of their sins and are eager to flaunt them in front of him. Those who are not Catholics actively seek out this priest to taunt him with his irrelevancy in a world that seeks to abandon the unseen and sees the concept of God as superstitious. How do you make Christianity relevant in this world, especially for a church that is defiled by one of the greatest sins? Calvary answers that those who love Christ and their community must stop focusing on sin, but preach forgiveness, understanding, love and truth and be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice.