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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…
Memory and optimism
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pveugelaers
Playing the Men in Black theme song back to back with Sting’s Fields of Gold is an interesting juxtaposition. It impressed me with a theme of memory. How there is negative stuff in memory, but how it can be wiped clean, to bring a whole new outlook, like walking in fields of gold. Negative memory…
Queen of Katwe: When outreach does good
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pveugelaers
I left chess to the experts who filled up a classroom during the lunch hour chess club. I doubt there were many masters there, if any, but I wouldn’t want to play any of them, in case I got whipped. Disney’s Queen of Katwe (2016; out now on DVD) is a true story about a…
American Dream and la la land
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pveugelaers
The American Dream may be a fascinating prospect in some movies, but in others, it’s not a guarantee in life. They consider it la la land. Live the dream Dance and sports movies seem to be a natural fit for movies about living the dream. In the 1980s there was Fame and Flashdance, popular films…
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