{"id":1203,"date":"2016-10-14T11:51:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T11:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2016-11-22T04:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T04:58:58","slug":"the-supernatural-in-ghostbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2016\/10\/the-supernatural-in-ghostbusters.html","title":{"rendered":"The supernatural in Ghostbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ghostbusters<\/em> (2016) is entertaining. Also flat at the beginning, but overall an entertaining film and an amusing comedy. It is a visual effects heaven. Chris Hemsworth is amusing as the \u201cdumb blonde\u201d. The ghostbuster heroines are believable.\u00a0<em>Ghostbusters<\/em> is also supernatural fiction, but in spite of it being fiction, is it saying there\u2019s a supernatural world out there? Supernatural fiction\u00a0<em>Ghostbusters<\/em> still points to a supernatural world.<\/p>\n<h4>Supernatural world<\/h4>\n<p>What\u2019s in <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> in terms of teaching us things about the supernatural? I can only refer back to ghosts because this is what barely represents a supernatural world in <em>Ghostbusters<\/em>. The supernatural world in <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> intends to destroy. Innocent people are threatened. People get threatened by friendly-looking ghosts and not so friendly looking ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the supernatural world on display have less than ghoulish characteristics and seem harmless. But\u00a0<em>Ghostbusters<\/em> is no Casper \u2018the friendly ghost\u2019 . It is no Close Encounters of the Third Kind where the alien visitors seem okay to hang with. In <em>Ghostbusters<\/em>, even the funny looking, cartoonish ghosts are of bad intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> the supernatural world is evil. But ghoulish, funny looking ghosts don&#8217;t look like they could hurt a fly. This latter point is subtle: sometimes evil does not look evil. So supernatural evil does not always come with pointed ears and a pitchfork ready to beset humanity in a decisive swipe.<\/p>\n<p>Supernatural evil can be subtle, but still contain the essentials of evil: to destroy life. This subtle interweaving of evil intends on pulling the wool over people\u2019s eyes before taking them down.<\/p>\n<p>So a subtle lesson of <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> is to be on guard against subtle intrusions and to be alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghostbusters (2016) is entertaining. Also flat at the beginning, but overall an entertaining film and an amusing comedy. It is a visual effects heaven. Chris Hemsworth is amusing as the \u201cdumb blonde\u201d. The ghostbuster heroines are believable.\u00a0Ghostbusters is also supernatural fiction, but in spite of it being fiction, is it saying there\u2019s a supernatural world&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,21,53,279,324],"tags":[15,22,8,10,163,45,16,7,103,148],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-movies","category-comedies","category-fantasies","category-ghostbusters","category-supernatural","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-film","tag-film-commentaries","tag-ghostbusters","tag-good-versus-evil","tag-life","tag-movies","tag-science-fiction","tag-science-fiction-films"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The supernatural in Ghostbusters - Life at the Movies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If ghosts are poor representatives of the supernatural in fiction, supernatural fiction Ghostbusters still points to a supernatural world.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2016\/10\/the-supernatural-in-ghostbusters.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The supernatural in Ghostbusters - 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