[mnehring]

The movie's message about changing the world by practicing "acts of random kindness" (which is an acronym for ARK, get it?) would feel a lot more genuine if "Evan" had cost, say a 10th of its final budget and had those involved plowed the rest of the money into various charitable causes. As it stands, the excessive "Evan" suffers from an affliction almost as old as the Bible — Hollywood hypocrisy.

Can't people just enjoy a movie any more instead of trying to psycoanalyize everything or add moral weight?

[Matchett-PI]

“Can’t people just enjoy a movie any more instead of trying to psycoanalyize everything or add moral weight?” ~ mnehrling

It IS sad, but as long as we have such people around, there is nothing I like better than to see them being psychoanylized, themselves, by professionals like Robert W.Godwin [Blogs as Gagdad Bob] , Ph.D - a clinical psychologist whose interdisciplinary work has focused on the relationship between contemporary psychoanalysis, chaos theory, and quantum physics.

For instance:

http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2005/10/never-make-god-of-your-irreligion.html

bttt

[Revelation 911]

Can't people just enjoy a movie any more instead of trying to psycoanalyize everything or add moral weight?

mmm - I see it as an attempt to vault themselves higher than the mere pagans who might watch this stuff

I saw it last night - I wasnt expecting 600 level theology - but you know what - no other movie I have seen lately actually showed and had as a main theme a verse from the Bible - hey its a start

incidentally it was Gen 6:14