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Abstract
he film Jésus de Montréal 2 was released in 1989 and is widely considered one of the greatest Québécois (and indeed, Canadian) films of all time.This essay will examine the film's representation of authorities in contrast to the representation of authorities in the gospels.The film contrasts the various depicted authorities (e.g., the Roman Catholic Church, the police, and, to a lesser extent, the clinic) with the Roman authorities of the gospels.For the purpose of examining these contrasts and comparisons, it is essential to place the film within its particular historical context, to which writer-director Denys Arcand only alludes.Through such a lens, it becomes evident that the portrayals of Roman soldiers and political and religious leaders are juxtaposed by Arcand with today's church, the police, and, to a lesser extent, the austere clinic.The Roman Catholic Church (for simplicity henceforth abbreviated as "the Church") is first portrayed during the film's opening credits, where a choir rehearsal seems to be taking place in what one assumes to be Latin.This use of Latin is despite the film taking place in the then-present-day of around 1989.Therefore, the film seems to be evoking the audience's memories of a pre-Vatican II Church-but also the Church from prior to the practically simultaneous Révolution tranquille (Quiet Revolution).This was a period of the 1960s during which Québécois society underwent significant modernization-including an emphasis on secularity, especially within the state.Before la Révolution tranquille, the Church dominated practically all aspects of Québec society; however, the "revolution" resulted in a drastic decline in both the power of the Church as an institutional authority and of the number of Church adherents and attendants, especially among younger Québécois. 3 Thus Jésus de Montréal, within its first five minutes, is situating itself within this particular historical discourse, bringing together the Church of the past (in Latin) and the empty churches all over Québec of today (including here).Underlying the Church figures' condemnation of Daniel's passion play is anxiety over the place of the Church and its power in the post-Quiet Revolution Québec.The interpretation of the gospels is one of the few places in which the Church is still able to exercise some authority, and this is highly relevant to understanding the motives of the antagonist(s).The plot begins while the choir continues in the background: the film's primary priest character-and chief antagonist-Frère Leclerc walks up behind our protagonist Daniel Coulombe 4 as he looks upon the choir in awe.They seem to be familiar with each other; this man who embodies the Church beside the man who would come to embody "Jesus of
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".