The movie never completely transcends the sense that it is a tract.
Ultimately, as one goes through one dogmatic assertion after another, one begins to get the impression that it's not mainly about European history at all; it's a tract for the times.
What he achieved there was strange and miraculous: on one level, it's a tract explaining that it's OK to rat on your mates if you believe it's for a good cause, and on another a chronicle of tragedy and redemption still unequalled in Hollywood.
In Scientific American, James R. Newman, the editor of the popular anthology "The World of Mathematics," said that it was "a moral tract on mass murder: how to plan it, how to commit it, how to get away with it, how to justify it".
Another simple way to swing to the spiritual is to offer the person a gospel tract and ask, "Did you get one of these?" When he takes it, simply say, "It's a gospel tract.
It is a patriotic tract and an act of great leadership.
It is a psychological tract about doubles and doppelgangers, addressing levels of human consciousness.
"It is a big tract of land, with wide-open spaces and good natural topography," said Jay Cross, the Jets president.
Philip Barlow, the Arrington professor of Mormon history and culture at Utah State University, said, "One way to read the Book of Mormon is that it's a vast tract on social justice".
At an impressive 4,000 sq km, it is a hefty tract of landscape to try to fully take in.
