The Armor He Could Not Carry

In the 1986 film The Mission, Rodrigo Mendoza is a mercenary and slave trader consumed by guilt after killing his own brother in a jealous rage. As penance, he agrees to something almost unthinkable: dragging a heavy net filled with his iron armor and weapons up the sheer cliffs of Iguazú Falls — hundreds of feet of mist and rock — to reach the very Guaraní village he once raided for slaves.…