Reimagining Pocahantas

As part of our educational series exploring what happens when different cultures and religious traditions collide, St. Bede’s will screen, The New World, Terrence Malick’s beautiful 2005 re-telling of the story of Pocahantas and John Smith, on Friday, November 14. So mark your calendars.

The movie portrays the very beginnings of the complicated, messy history that has been the culture clash between Europeans and Native Americans on this continent. And it beautifully captures the feeling of cross-cultural transcendence one can find when barriers between disparate peoples somehow fall away, a feeling the Youth Group experienced in fits and spurts during our Mission Trip to the Rosebud Lakota Reservation this past June.