Process & Film
Films Worth Watching
This is just for starters. A list of (mostly recent) films excellent for theological discussion or personal pleasure/reflection.
Category #1: Just Plain Fun
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Being Julia (Noel Cowardesque romantic comedy)
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Sideways (journey film, tragi-comic, brilliant dialogue)
Category #2: Social Conscience
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Vera Drake (abortion, class differences)
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Crash (infinitely shifting boundaries, difficulties in breaking through multiple racist stereotypes)
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Hotel Rwanda (genocide)
Category #3: Absorbing Drama
- About Schmidt (aging, family relations, meaning)
- Nowhere in Africa(war and peace, dislocation, marriage/family/friend loyalties, forgiveness)
- In America (community, breaking stereotypes, family)
- Pieces of April (community, death and reconciliation)
- Chocolat (forms of community; what constitutes a sacred community/church)
Spitfire Grill (suffering for another, redemption, forgiveness, transformation) - Kings and Queen (layered depths and mystery of human personality; reversals of expectations)
- Ray (music as metaphor for creative transformation; blindness)