tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746683755067841448.post2543665643278520656..comments2023-09-28T07:28:03.904-07:00Comments on Hinc Videndum: The ChangelingWeb Scribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08555991664318191365noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746683755067841448.post-50731318548315579202009-03-17T07:28:00.000-07:002009-03-17T07:28:00.000-07:00One more thing!We invite movie 'criticism' to be p...One more thing!<BR/><BR/>We invite movie 'criticism' to be posted here at Hinc Videndum.<BR/><BR/>There is much to be found in a good movie, thoughtfully created. I wonder if Shakespeare would have embraced the medium. I would like to think so. And thus, I look to movies as well as the stage, and of course, novels, for the Chaucers and Shakespeares of today, shedding light on the nature of humanity.Web Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08555991664318191365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746683755067841448.post-6650748575831584362009-03-16T20:27:00.000-07:002009-03-16T20:27:00.000-07:00We just viewed Milk this weekend as well. Another ...We just viewed Milk this weekend as well. Another excellent interpretation, from Hollywood, of a powerful social justice activist.<BR/><BR/>In my Lenten study of prophetic spirituality, Harvey Milk is my hands-down modern Hosea.<BR/><BR/>It is hard to believe how relatively recent is the Harvey Milk era. I know that the walls of injustice will continue to crumble and I hope to see in my lifetime, the church's complete and unconditional acceptance of all people without any bias or discrimination; notwithstanding <BR/>Saturday's Beacon Herald article about a mega-church in America's Bible Belt and its Anita Bryant views about human sexuality.<BR/><BR/>I would like to place your second last paragraph on a billboard across the street from that church!Web Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08555991664318191365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746683755067841448.post-69790708150073830972009-03-16T10:45:00.000-07:002009-03-16T10:45:00.000-07:00I will see your ‘Changeling’ and raise you a ‘Milk...I will see your ‘Changeling’ and raise you a ‘Milk’. I watched the latter movie this weekend and amongst other things was struck by the movie’s portrayal of the protagonist. Despite being a movie about his important role in promoting gay rights, not all of Harvey’s warts were hidden. For a place famous for too many ‘white hat (good), black hat (bad)’ metaphors this Hollywood movie is a welcome relief. However it is not my intent to become a movie reviewer. My reflections are based on your Hinc Videndum blog posting and some thoughts that I have been having recently. We seem to like to see our past with rose coloured glasses, 60’s comfort food, Motown’s wall of sound, muscle cars all are seen without the high cholesterol, racial inequality and pollution that went with them. I must say that the tint on my Lutheran glasses has recently faded as well. <BR/><BR/>However, I worry than when we realize that we have been coasting on a rather glossy picture of our heritage we can quickly become mired down dragging the chains of our own sins and those of our ancestors. Perhaps it is time to realize that we are all in a desperate, life threatening, individual fight, not totally of our own making and definitely not something we can finish or win without the power of God working within us doing what we cannot imagine.<BR/><BR/>By the way, a criticism, the last two paragraphs of your blog should be framed. They are some of your best words.mackie100https://www.blogger.com/profile/12273074806550853996noreply@blogger.com