Spiritual/Political/Philosophical Blog on the Nature of Truth and Falsehood and Heaven
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Monday, November 03, 2003 Why don't we duh-do it in the road? Went to a movie Friday night (to avoid Halloween), and my wife and I were treated for our money with commercials (not a slide show, but made for the movie house film commercials). That was infuriating enough, but at the end of the last commercial, a long screen shot of a Coke logo with the slogan - Do What you Feel. Apparently, we're way past the day of - if it feels good, do it. Using the word "good" now is too judgmental. Just do it - do what you feel. Want to kill somebody - if you feel like it, do it! Want to yell at somebody - do it! Feel like spitting on someone - go ahead, don't hold back; repressing your feelings is bad! The movie started about a half hour later than its listed time, and worse, the movie was a liberal piece of trash like - The Life of David Gale. Only this was Runaway Jury. Very effective propaganda, though. Guns bad - gun haters good. Guns always hurt other people. Guns never save anyone. Gun companies run by a club of rich, evil, Southern white men. The movie's good white guy played by Dustin Hoffman makes no bones about the fact that he's intent on using the courts to change the law - and there's nothing wrong with that! I thought I was watching an episode of The West Wing. Or Boston Public. A couple of shows I've seen only once. (And hate.) My daughter recommended Runaway Jury to me as a fine court drama and thriller. No review I read said it was politicized and deeply biased to the left. My daughter, for Pete's sake! A good Christian girl with conservative values completely failed to notice the movie was a vehicle for propaganda. That is why we are losing the Culture War. Our young people are absorbing notions through the emotionalism of TV and movies. There is no rebuttal in a movie or to a TV show. It is uninterrupted preaching and subverting. A good plot with exciting twists makes the bitter medicine of false and evil morality go down so easy. It just makes you furious. Where are our TV and movie producers, directors, writers? Christians try to provide a counter cultural alternative in music, books, and schools, but as artists - Christians and conservatives can't seem to find and support any fine artists who can compete with the secular world. For example, go rent TimeChanger. A serious Christian movie, a sort of fish out of water story with good production values. Rent it, but you'll be disappointed by it overall. There are a few good scenes, and some strong points it makes, but its didacticism leaves it quite stiff and arch, and far too preachey (and precious at times). Yet, I could not get the filmmaking brothers to read my beautiful tale, Brightness Springs. It's not that they rejected it, but that they wouldn't read it. Why? Because they write all their own movies (and they are quite mediocre at it). Anyway, Runaway Jury stinks, and so does paying to watch Coke commercials. posted by Mark Butterworth | 2:46 AM | |
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