New Movie: Saved

[Ash Wednesday]

Dee is much less offensive.

The movie is probably trying to point it's finger at hypocritcal Christians that run around with a splinter in their eye. Will it attempt to have anything positive to say about Christianity? It's hard to say, at least I couldn't say until I saw the movie.

My kneejerk reaction from the trailer is: "hypocritical Christians smell of elderberries, but don't let it stop you from forming your own 'belief system'"

Of course that in itself is an idea that feeds into relativism and makes one perhaps wary of organized religion. I see a lot of that these days -- "I don't have a religion, I have a relationship. I trust my feelings. (Or as Catholics erroneously say, 'I trust my conscience' Uh huh.) Nobody knows what the truth is anyway, if it feels right, I'm gonna sleep with my boyfriend."

The movie might have a positive message.... but I also fear it might be a wishy washy one. I would have to see the movie myself to make a final judgement. One thing that might explain a lot is that the movie is produced by Michael Stipe from R.E.M. ...someone who from what I gather is one of those "socially conscious" types but has a lot of erroneous ideas as well.

[Live4Him]

[quote name='BLAZEr' date='Mar 14 2004, 03:12 PM'] I thought it was funny too . . . but the Christina pic was a little too provocative . . . I guess ANY Christina pic is probbaly too provocative.

Thanks Az. [/quote]
Sorry I had to put such a picture in, but it got my point across. Moulin Rouge and movies like that support the worlds agenda.

[BLAZEr]

[quote name='Live4Him' date='Mar 14 2004, 10:06 PM'] Sorry I had to put such a picture in, but it got my point across. Moulin Rouge and movies like that support the worlds agenda. [/quote]
Christina Aquilera was not in Moulin Rouge. Nicole Kidman was. And the movie was about much much more than what would be evidenced from any still frame picture you could produce from it. The movie, actually titled "Moulin Rouge, or A Story of Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Love" takes place in a "house of ill repute" but creates a most unlikely transformation of the place. Although it starts out as a dance hall where people go to find courtesans (prostitutes), one man's devotion to beuauty, truth, freedom, and love transforms, not only the Courtesan he is in love with, but literally he transforms the Whore House into a theater.

There is a paralell there with this man and St. Francis . . . who also rebuilds a "house." It's not a perfect analogy, but it is a interesting one.

I think you need to watch Moulin Rouge again. I find it to be an incredible movie that is diametrically opposed to the world's agenda.

It really is a movie about Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Love. It's Hollywood, mind you, not the Vatican, so there are some things that I find incosistent with the main story line, but overall I found it to be an amazingly Catholic movie.

In the movie, one man who believes in Real Love is able to change people in a cynical, sex, money and fame obsessed culture.

Seriously, I don't know if Flannery O'Connor or George Bernanos could have done a better job with it. It was dope.

[Colleen]

[quote name='BLAZEr' date='Mar 14 2004, 12:05 AM'] I think two examples of movies with profound themes, that were associated with distributors and studios that are known for the anti-catholic histories are:

Moulin Rouge and Life is Beautiful [/quote]
Life is Beautiful is a beautiful movie.

[littleflower+JMJ]

man ash wednesday i LOVE reading your posts! you ALWAYS crack me up!!

i saw both pic and yes... -_- i do have to agree.........


that they were seperated at birth