There was a post on another thread about how the Matrix helped someone come to the Catholic Church. It made me think of numerous movies which have touched on thoughts, concepts, characteristics of God.
So I ask all Catholic and non-Catholics alike, what movies have you seen that have furthered your understanding of God?
(I’ll hold off on mine for a while to see if anyone hits movies on my list).
My favorite is “
Time Changer”. It is about a man in the late 19th century who is being sent about 100 years into the future. He had written a book in his day and age saying that Christianity has good morals, but that these can be taught without naming the Lord. Well when he comes into our time he quickly finds out what happened in the aftermath. People are morally corrupt because they do not accept the authority behind the teaching. One scene was a little girl who stole is hot dog. Well he manages to catch her and tells her that he could have bought her one if she was in need of food. She just gives him back the hot dog and says “Here is your dog!” He tells her that stealing is wrong and she just answers “Says who?” and runs off.
He also visits a Protestant church (yes he is Protestant himself, but that is beside the point) and finds that they are not even having sound teaching and that all they do is fill their time with all sorts of activities. They go on visitation to possible members of their church and the members who took him there try to get the prospects into the church by telling them about their fun activities, etc. Well what he sees there is basically pathetic.
The moral of the whole film (which is portraying reality pretty well and out of the viewpoint of a man who lived 100 years ago) is the following:
You cannot proclaim the teachings of the Lord without the Lord of the teachings.
Honor where honor is due. When we tell someone not to do something we should tell them who said it. If we don’t morals becomes a matter of debate and popular vote (as we see in the issue of homosexuality and abortion).
In Him,
Janet
PS: Here the part about him coming into the modern times as portrayed on Wikipedia:
“Arriving in the early 21st Century, Carlisle is shocked to find that half of all marriages end in divorce, teenagers talk openly about deceiving their parents, movies contain blasphemous words and people who go to church are so bored by the sermons that they need extra activities. He tries to convince Eddie, a laundromat worker (Paul Rodriguez), that he needs to go to church and read the Bible.”
