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Doctor Strange and rock bottom
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pveugelaers
Year: 2016, DVD released February 28, 2017 (North America) In my previous post on Doctor Strange I described the spiritual journey that this film raises, just the spiritual journey. In today’s post I am asking, first of all, what sort of spirituality do we have with Doctor Strange? It has been described as sorcery. Somewhere…
Logan
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pveugelaers
The well-used X-Men theme of good people caught up in a bad world is treated with grit, dirt and no polish in the latest X-Men movie, Logan. Theme Previous X-Men movies have put mutants, who are otherwise human in quite a few respects, as outsiders in a world that discriminates against them. The good mutants…
Goodies need redeeming , even jedi
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pveugelaers
Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Han Solo in The Force Awakens and Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. The action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. They are the good guys. Does the Arnold Schwarzenegger action hero need redemption? No, we say. Because he saves lives (in the way an action movie…
Transforming into evil isn’t the end for Star Wars.
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pveugelaers
In Star Wars, Anakin Skywalker had transformed into an evil character, but this isn’t a total transformation into evil. Not total transformation Unless one is the Devil, one can’t totally be evil. In the television series Lucifer there’s a shot of what the Devil looks like. There is no compassion, empathy or mercy on his…
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