The fragility of Social Institutions and the disruption of Ethics in the film Agnes of God

Abstract

Research about the fragilities of the social institutions in the movie Agnes of God and the ethic and moral. There are a mistery in the story:a murder of the baby inside the convent.  The young nun, Agnes killed her baby and a psichiatrist. Dra. Martha Livingstone  begans a investigation since the childhood of Agnes until the crime. The presence of the Superior Mother, Mirian Ruth is important to the story. She is an administrator and protect Agnes in many situations. Such social institutions are showed as Family, Religion and the Justice. Methods are explained: questions and the hipnosis. Agnes has mistics experiences and reveal the conflict between cience and religion.