BECAUSE HE LIVES… 

Is it possible to relate movies now playing in the cinema, heroes of our days and the feast of Easter? Indeed. It's not even that hard. Some storytellers' analyses show this beautiful plot of Easter may be an archetype for best storytelling. This article invites you to dig into this beautiful mind-structuring experience to make it life-changing.

There are many ways to tell stories, and sure, good storytelling, with the right pauses, climax and a surprising end can keep us attached and help to understand best what those telling the story want us to know. We can also digress and conclude the ones telling the story, can make us live one experience as if we were there, walking in their shoes and considering life through their lenses. That is one of the points that makes the Holy Week and Easter time a powerful experience. But two components seem necessary to differ from any other simple narrative experience: will and faith. Together they can change our mindset and make us collaborate to improve things around us. So we do not only hear the story but live a whole experience!

At this moment in the movie theatres in North America, the same time as the epic episode two of the saga Dune, the funny Kong Fu Panda 4 and soon the funny/scary thriller Ghostbusters, there is this very unpretentious movie called One Life, based on a true story. It could be seen as one more movie about solidarity during WWII, but it's more than that. The main character, Nickolas Winton, is an English citizen who goes to Prague not soon before Hitler invades Poland and gets touched by the misery he sees of war-displaced families, and he decides to do something. To avoid giving too many spoilers, let's stop here. Other movies tell stories alike, like the great Oscar winner  Schindler's List, where the plot of One Saving Many is a winner, especially because it is based on real life.

In real life, at this moment, there are Daughters of Charity Sisters in Cambodia saving young people from human trafficking, volunteers receiving refugee families in Canada, and Missionaries of Charity helping people survive and cope in Kenya, taking care of the poorest of the poor. Missionaries and activists in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest fighting to take care of our common home for future generations of the whole planet, others helping families in Japan where economic conditions make parents end up living separated to be able to raise kids and social pressure is so hard that young adults struggle to simply live, and the list goes on and on.