In this essay, I will trace how post-Reformation theology, existential philosophy, and quantum physics converge in 20th-century cinema to reveal a radical truth: that meaning is not inherited, but constituted—through faith, suffering, and the act of witness. Before the Reformation, morality in the West was inherited—virtue and vice embedded within a fixed spiritual and social order. Martin Luther ruptured that order. For him, reason was inadequate to grasp divine truth. He ca

To film in the Amazon is to stand at the meeting point of two worldviews that have been in conflict since first contact. The Mebêngôkre never chose to become the last line of defense for the rainforest. History placed them there. And the miners and farmers did not choose to inherit an extractive worldview. Poverty placed them there. This collision did not begin with them. It began with an old idea. In the Portuguese imagination, much like Manifest Destiny in the United States