Conclave (2025) is how we make shallowness covered by ultra-aesthetic cosmetics—whom we call visual, audio, and acting. It buries its real potential—moral ambiguousness, spiritual doubt, and the theological debate of papacy—under a heavily political drama that relies on twisting plot and over-simplified ideological divide, giving the audience no space to contemplate.
The film presents its characters not as complex figures within Church politics but as ideological archetypes: the staunch liberal, the ultraconservative hardliner, the compassionate favorite, and the scheming outcasts—each…
