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Category Archives: Movies
PI AND REALITY (Part 2)
Florence Stratton offers a brilliant discussion of Martel’s book in her essay, “‘Hollow At the Core’: Deconstructing Yann Martel’s Life of Pi” in the literary journal, Studies in Canadian Literature (found at http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/12746/13689). She writes, “Life of Pi is organized around a philosophical debate about the modern world’s privileging of reason over imagination, science over religion, materialism over idealism, fact over fiction or story. The extreme poles of this debate are represented in the latter part of the novel by the two officials from the Japanese government.” Continue reading
Posted in Faith and Reason, Movies, Postmodernism, Science and Faith, Truth/Reality, Uncategorized
Tagged imagination, Life of Pi, Postmodernism, reality, religion, story, Yann Martel
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PI AND REALITY
Although it received 11 Oscar nominations, including best picture, Life of Pi has attracted much attention outside the Screen Actors Guild, given its philosophical and religious underpinnings. Adapted for the screen from Yann Martel’s novel, the movie does not drown out these themes with its remarkable cinematography and special effects. Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Postmodernism, Truth/Reality, Uncategorized
Tagged Life of Pi, reality, religion, Yann Martel
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A SUBLIME GRACE
Valjean had experienced only the harsh and dispassionate force of the law, but he was now the victim of a sublime grace at the hands of a merciful and compassionate bishop. The bishop urged him to use the money from the silver to make himself an honest man. Then the bishop anoints him with these words, “Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.” Continue reading
Posted in Grace, Movies, Redemption, Suffering, Uncategorized
Tagged Bishop Myriel, Fantine, Javert, Jean Valjean, Les Miserables, redemption
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HOLLYWOOD’S BLIND SIDE
I finally broke down and watched a movie that several of my daughters were raving about. “The Vow,” starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, chronicles a young couple’s tumultuous recovery from a car accident that nearly killed both of them. Paige suffered a brain injury that left a five-year hole in her memory, including the romance and marriage to her husband, Leo. Continue reading
Posted in Character, Integrity, Marriage, Movies
Tagged Kim & Krickitt Carpenter, marriage, movies, The Blind Side, The Vow
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“THE HUNGER GAMES” AS A MIRROR
Okay, so I have neither seen the movie nor read the book – yet. That will not stop me from commenting on the latest box office “blockbuster that doesn’t seem like a blockbuster,” The Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins wrote the young-adult trilogy and collaborated with director Gary Ross to adapt it for the screen.
Collins offers the readers/viewers “a terrible kind of mirror,” according to Jennifer Lawrence, who plays the teenage leading role, Katniss. “This is what our society could be like if we become desensitized to trauma and to each other’s pain,” said Lawrence. The book/movie tackles subjects like totalitarian government, invasive media and dehumanization. Continue reading
Posted in Death, Movies, Violence
Tagged Hunger Games, Survivor, Teen literature, The Bachelor, Ultimate Fighting Championship, violence
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