Sex and the City

Things the movie illuminated for me:

• Shoes make me happy!
  
• People hurt people.
  
• Forgiveness is hard.
• Humans like the words "I", "me", "my" and "mine".
  
• Friends are a true blessing.
• Love can stink.
• Families are out of fashion.
• Lonliness isn't nice.
  
• People want to be loved.
• Broken relationships are painful.
  
• Macs are cool.
• Love brings great joy.
  
• People want to live life their own way.
  
• Marriage is a good thing but misunderstood by many.
  
• Children are a miraclous gift.
• People ignore God.

I Am Legend...

If you like to think and like thriller movies then this is a movie for you. It has a really heavy themes that pushes a unapologetic Christian view of humanity admist scary zombies attacking:

• Destruction of society/creation is not caused by God but by man.
• Humans are created for community and relationship.
• God's plan can't be thwarted or trumped.
• The degenerate and evil community live in darkness and are allergic to the sun light.
• Remnant saved who are immune to the Darkness Eaters/Vampire Virus (although can be physically killed by them, just not infected to jump over to the dark side) , who live in a protected idyllic setting.
• All the intellegence, physical strength, knowlege of a man with authority, power and integrity accourding to the worlds standards cannot save you... then contrast with the humility and hope of a woman and child who see life.
• Doubt: how could a loving God allow this to happen? The fact they are alive and the hope of others alive shows some kindness of God or God's faithfulness to his plan.
• Death is the sting of the virus - those who die are not saved from its grip and death seperates us from those we love.

I liked this movie. Besides it starring my favourite piece of eye-candy, it scared the living daylights out of me any my friend Lisa but scared in a good way. There was great beauty in the suspense and terror, it held me throughout the movie and made me think all at the smae time. It was not overly gruesome, had some very funny moments, some to-be-expected singing/music moments by Will Smith... and just not sure if I buy it that Robert Neville (Will Smith) didn't know about the remnant of people when he was in the army intellegence and had everything to cure the virus but maybe that was due to his self-righteousness that he had to stay at ground-zero as he is sure he can fix this... nonetheless it was an intense and thrilling movie.

I think what I like the most about this movie is that it is putting Christian ideas on our culture agenda, giving us a vocabulary to see, engage and discuss the true God who saves.

And it was a joy to walk out of the movie and for Lisa to ask: what did you think of the story line, bit more indepth than the average vampire/zombie movie don't you think?

Anyone read the book? I think I might aim to do that this year!

ONCE

I just saw the movie ONCE - A film by John Carney for the second time tonight.

I loved it the first time so much that when I got home from seeing it I bought the soundtrack on iTunes... seeing it again knowing the music and lyrics was a real treat. The music is great!

I found it such a unique movie... or modern quirky musical! I give it 5 stars.

What I loved...

• was the raw and mysterious characters - you don't really know their names which I guess is played out in the lyrics to one of the songs Falling Slowly - "'I don't know you, but I want to, all the more for that".


• was the hoover scene, with Marketa dragging her vacuum cleaner around like a dog!


• was that marriage was upheld as something to work hard at and that there was great delight in doing so... rarely find that in movies these days! (despite this I found in me a desire to see the main characters fondness for each other blossom even though it would have been wrong)


• Marketa's accent... Czech accents are cool!


• the music.... it really makes you want to be able to break out into song in your own life to help communicate the highs and lows... music, as Ravi Z says, is the language of the heart - I so agree with him!

Have you seen this movie? If not GO! It's on at Acadamy in Paddo!

http://oncethemovie.com/