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How others will see it. A less presumptuous title would be A Nun's Story Nonetheless, the world was charmed by Audrey Hepburn in 1959, and she can hardly be blamed for the film's title. The movie's audience was surprisingly large: men relished the many close-ups of Hepburn's adorable face, and women could entertain their fantasy of becoming a nun, without actually having to give up their luxuries, pleasures, and vices.
Devout Catholics have little to fear. This is not Agnes of God, and there is no offensive behavior. Blacks may or may not care that an African commits a mindless violent murder, or that the nuns continually refer to grown black men as "boys." At any rate, it irritates me.
How I felt about it. In the opening scenes, Hepburn leaves home for the convent. Family members, even the sympathetic father, are in mourning, as if Hepburn has actually been condemned to life imprisonment. Of course, they regret her effective removal from the family. But they also are genuinely sorry for her, and for the things that she'll miss out on, such as junk food, Seinfeld re-runs, a tedious and exasperating day job, and an indifferent (or worse, possessive) husband.
In contrast, convent life is regimented, and minds are wiped clean by forbidding speech and thought, except in matters of controlled religion and work. Hepburn puts up with it gladly, because she thinks she'll get sent to the Congo, which is romantically dangerous, has contagious diseases to cure or prevent, and has far greater ethnic and cultural diversity than the convent.
Hepburn passes early tests of her faith with flying colors. She ignores the culture of the Congo blacks, and tries not to listen to the unnervingly perceptive observations of older, plain-spoken Dr. Finch. What she can't stand is the boredom of the Belgian convent, or the temptation of leaving the nunnery to join the underground movement against Nazi occupiers. The war thus gives Hepburn the ideal excuse for abandoning the Church, and putting an end to The Nun's Story while Hepburn is still a perfect 10.