As the semester winds down (and the workload winds up) I've been day dreaming about what I'm going to do with all my soon-to-be-rediscovered free time. And, since doing something worthwhile has long been ruled out, I think I might spend more of my time blogging. At least until something more pressing (like J-term classes followed by the Spring semester) pops up.
But, if I do resume more regular blogging, what, o what should I blog about?
This morning I blew the time I should have been working on the two papers I have due this week finally watching a movie that I simply loved, but don't have time to comment in depth on yet: V for Vendetta, the Wachowwski brothers' worthy follow-up to the Matrix trilogy (first take: better than the second and third Matrix films, not quite as good as the first). Strangely enough, that film explores many of the same issues as my emerging idea for my Masters thesis (or am I just seeing a thesis topic in everything?), but more on that when I take the time to blog for real.
In the meantime, I've decided that until I change my mind (which could well be before any actual posts) I'm going to do more in depth looks at the theological, philosophical, and ethical content in movies, much like I did in these posts, two of my all-time favorites to write:
Contact
RENT
Or, for less depth, consider these:
Ever Since the World Ended (juxtaposing the film Donnie Darko with a Mose Alison song)
An Unnatural Evil (a look at Augustine's theodicy of natural evil after watching An Inconvenient Truth, but I swear, its not that heavy)
Bobby (paging Mr. Obama and Mr. Edwards)
Suns and Warriors Put On a Show (And Demonstrate Why Pace Matters)
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Last night the Phoenix Suns and the Golden State Warriors, two of the
fastest paced teams in the NBA, were matched up against each other on
national televi...
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1 comment:
Can't wait to hear what you have to say about V for Vendetta, Sandman. It's one of my favorites. Perhaps it's not quite the masterpiece of filmmaking that the first Matrix movie was, but I still like it better. It's one of my favorites, not least because it speaks to my inner anarchist. In my mind, it's essentially a filmed, dramatic version of Robert Paul Wolff's In Defense of Anarchism, which is itself a flawed masterpiece.
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