Doubt

You will, for sure, doubt, but as some saying goes if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it might just be a duck. So my point being, this movie is about a priest that's being accused of molesting a black kid in a catholic school, could that have happened? maybe looking back at the setting of this play (it is more of a play than a movie), people might have doubted, but now a days, with some evidence showing that could have been a common happening, I wouldn't think there'd be much doubt at all, which makes another interesting point, are we predisposed to judge people based on stereotypes? Couldn't that be labeled as intolerance or bigotry?

The story is well put together, the acting is superb, and you get to kind of root for the priest, which in the end leaves you with doubt as to what might have happened or even more so, why it could have happened, sort of trying to "legitimize" whatever went on. This we should attribute to Philip-Seymour Hoffman's excellent interpretation. 

Another excellent job, one I particularly liked was Viola Davis's role as the allegedly molested kid, it really goes to show the struggle between wanting the child's well being but trying not to single him out in a setting that clearly alienates him.

There are some really crude movies about this theme, like Sleepers (watch it), this one is not quite in the same category as it views events from a non-judgmental point of view, perhaps out of approaching such delicate matters from the real standpoint where there is not full disclosure of what's really going on. In this sense it is a really refreshing view that not necessarily puts full blame on the priest, or on the catholic school's system (No children's behind left)... Doubt we shall because in the end, who is the sinner... aren't we all? 

I rate Doubt with a Rent it... maybe.