2010: A Year to Remember
 

As we know, the centenary of Chico Xavier will be celebrated throughout this year, which will put the Spiritist Doctrine and the spiritual movement in evidence.

In the last few years we have seen several Spiritist plays to be launched in theatres, which will for sure continue along this year, but in future, the year of 2010 will be remembered as the year when the cinema actually opened its doors to the Spiritism.

The Spiritist film season, which started last Friday, 2nd April, with the release of the movie “Chico Xavier”, will see some other super productions with renowned cast throughout 2010. Besides the above mentioned film, directed by Daniel Filho and featuring Ângelo Antonio and Nelson Xavier playing the role of Chico Xavier, other ones are planned to be launched this year such as: "The Astral City", directed by Wagner Assis, "The Mothers of Chico" by Glauber Filho, "And Life goes on" by Paulo Figueiredo, and the documentary "Letters," by Cristiana Grumbach.

There are a lot of articles about “Chico Xavier - the movie”, which has been just launched in all Brazilian cinemas. The movie portrays the life of the dear medium in three stages: childhood, maturity and old age.

"The Astral City", which will be released in September, is based on Chico’s first psychographic book, also the first of a book series from André Luiz, which has sold over 2 million copies.

Its adaptation to the big screen was done by the filmmaker Wagner Assis, of Cinética films. The film shows the first years of the doctor André Luiz on the spiritual plane, after his death, a proof of immortality and survival of the soul that will certainly have a great effect on those who watch the film.

The book “And Life Goes on”, psychographic by Francisco Cândido Xavier, is also a work from André Luiz. The movie will be launched in 2010, under the direction of the renowned actor Paulo Figueiredo.

In the documentary "Letters," the director Cristiana Grumbach has focused on the messages psychographic by Chico Xavier. The production is scheduled to be released in the first half of this year. The documentary brings together reports of people who received messages which were psychographic by the medium. "During the filming, said Cristiana, I have found out that the majority of these letters were from children to their parents."

“The Mothers of Chico” is still being created and it will bring together stories of women who have received letters from their dead children. This is a new film by Glauber Filho, who was also responsible for the movie" Bezerra de Menezes - The Diary of a Spirit ", 2008, that has achieved great success in the Brazilian cinemas. "We have started with a documentary and then it has become a fiction. It was a great surprise; 503 thousand people watched it within 27 weeks. The film was produced with a budget of BRL 2.7 million."

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In the Revue Spirite of 1860, Kardec published the following words about Spiritist art, which were attributed to the Spirit of Alfred de Musset: "The worm is worm; it becomes the silkworm, then a butterfly. What's more graceful than a butterfly? So! The pagan art is the worm, the Christian art is the cocoon; the Spiritist art is the butterfly.

Speaking about the subject, the spiritist encoder said that such image would not diminish the value of the Christian idea, because Spiritism is based mainly on Christianity and does not come to replace it, but to complete it. "In the diaper of Christianity are the seeds of Spiritism, if they repel each other, one denies his son, the other, his father," asserted Kardec. (Edicel, pp.384 and 385.)

In the view of Allan Kardec, the pagan theogony and the mythology are nothing but a part of the spiritist life poeticized by allegory. The Christian art is inspired on the suffering of its early followers, whose persecution forced the men to isolation and confinement. Spiritism opens, however, a new field of art, huge and untapped. When the artist works with the same conviction as the Christian artists have worked, he will reap the most sublime inspirations.

This is what we hope to see, not only in the above mentioned films, but also in the productions that the theatre and cinemas will bring us in future, which leads us to say that 2010 will, undoubtedly, be a year to be remembered.