[Apologetics] Incredibles, Therese, Polar Express

[Stuart D. Gathman]

These are my comments on "The Incredibles" copied from gathnet:

If any of you haven't yet seen the movie "Therese", I highly recommend it.  
It is a very Catholic movie (so you'll have to overlook some bowing before 
statues), but the example of St. Therese is very inspiring and 
instructive.

In the secular film world, I was very happy with "The Incredibles". 
It has none of the moral relativism that permeates films like
"Pirates of the Caribbean".  Marriage and family are uplifted.
And it even shoots down a few of the obvious lies drilled into
kids at public schools:

  "Every one is special!"
  "That's just another way of saying, 'No one is special'."

Hopefully, some astute kids will be able to apply that same syllogism
to "Every religion is true."

There is lots of comic book violence as super-heroes battle killer machines
and super-villians - but there is no occult content, so I am even considering
taking Gail.

There is also moral development as characters make moral choices.
In Spiderman-2, it is done in a more mythic style.  (For example, the
glowing neural block chip fails and goes black allowing the computer arms 
to take over his brain at the very moment he makes the choice to give
his work priority over human life.  He is consumed by his work both
literally and figuratively.)  But Incredibles is still morally instructive,
showing that even minor sins can have grave consequences if not 
confronted.

The trailers and reviews of "Polar Express" seem to indicate that it is
a downright evil G rated movie ala Pocahontas.  The take home message
from that movie is, "It doesn't matter where the train is going - you
just need to get on."  Not something I want to feed to my kids.


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	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
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