The film Doubt takes place in a private Catholic school in the 1960s. Sister Aloysius is the headmistress of the school and Father Flynn is the pastor of the church. While the film deals with some moral dilemmas such as doubt versus certainty, rigidity versus openness, etc., the central theme of the story revolves around the accusation of pedophilia against Father Flynn. The story has a hanging ending where Father Flynn is proven neither guilty nor innocent. Based on the content of the film and my own analysis, I believe that certainty plays a greater role in the accusations and I believe that Father Flynn was falsely blamed and I am also against the rigidity of society. The first doubt about Father Flynn's behavior comes to Sister Aloysius's mind when he gives a sermon on the nature of doubt. The father notes that doubt can also be a unifying force like faith, and Sister Aloysius assumes that he had doubts which must have motivated the subject of the sermon. She then discusses the sermon with her fellow nuns, asks if anyone has observed unusual behavior that would prompt Father Flynn to preach about doubt, and asks them to closely observe her father's behavior. The second basis for doubt arises when Sister James reveals to Sister Aloysius that Father Flynn and Donald (a twelve-year-old African American boy at the school) have been spending an unusual amount of time at the church rectory. She also reveals that Donald was called by Father Flynn in the middle of a lesson and that she could smell alcohol on his breath when he returned. Sister James also told him that she saw Father Flynn put a white shirt in Donald's locker. The film ends with the last doubt that if Father Flynn was innocent, he would not have re...... middle of paper ......p thinking that the school had to adapt to the change in society, and not because he was trying to make the school less religious. The rigidity of the school hindered the school's progress and made students less adaptable to the world outside the church. Doubt has its own place, but doubt without proof is baseless and often considered invalid. In the movie "Doubt", the real problem was that Sister Aloysius doubted Father Flynn's actions and tried to take advantage of every little incident that could prove that her father was guilty of pedophilia. However, I believe that Father Flynn was innocent and was trying to change society for the better. I also firmly believe that it was the rigidity of Sister Aloysius that slowed down the progress of the school, and that openness in certain aspects would radically change society...