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Providentially, my copy of the film 13th Day arrived today, on October 13, the day Our Lady revealed herself as Our Lady of the Rosary at Fatima in 1917 - as well as the anniversary of the great miracle of the sun. No, it is not a feast day - simply an anniversary.
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The film is not bad, special effects are quite good - especially as they portray the "secret" of Fatima, which was revealed in three parts. That perhaps is the most impressive sequence in the film, and if I would have seen it before I painted my panel of 'The Secret', I may have changed my composition. The jailed children sequence I found to be excessively long, although wonderfully updated for our times with the skinhead character. The final scene of the miracle was rather well done - wonderful drama - but if memory serves me, the Warner Bros. scene may have been just as good without the CGI. Although I did like the magical, mystical cinematography which just about overlaid every scene in the13th Day, it gave an art-film quality to the production. Interestingly, some of the wooded scenes reminded me of Garabandahl when I visited there in the 1970's.
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Anyway - it was a pretty good film - nicely done. The message of Fatima was conveyed quite well. Like my own private experience at Fatima, I personally found the film rather dark and sober - and Our Lady's message was indeed very much on that order - although the film felt a little too strained and joyless.
