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The Conspirator (Robert Redford, 2010)
BY: R. Greg Grooms
The belief that there is one set of rules that apply equally to all our citizens, regardless of race, sex, or social standing, has never been as true in practice as we like to pretend it is.
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Friends With Benefits (Will Gluck, 2011)
BY: David John Seel, Jr.
The traditional romantic comedy is deconstructed—“Katherine Heigl is a liar,” Kunis exclaims making reference to Heigl’s film The Ugly Truth (2009). Here the nature of the relationship—friend with benefits—plays the role of protagonist. Willing cynicism, feigning cosmopolitan sophistication, lamenting one’s emotional brokenness… none of this changes the embodied fact that sex is always more than sex. Sex creates an emotional bond.
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True Grit (Coen Brothers, 2011)
BY: Andrew H. Trotter, Jr.
True Grit is a classic western with all the elements of the journey story. Both Rooster and Mattie (and LaBouef to some degree) develop in the movie, not just in our eyes as revealing character they already contained, but as changing, learning to trust others, learning humility, learning friendship. Even as they persevere in the face of repeated challenges, they begin to trust each other, realizing they cannot do alone everything worth doing in life.
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The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
BY: R. Greg Grooms
“The medium is the message,” i.e., how the story in The Tree of Life is told is what the story is about. Life often seems beautiful, but is apparently random and disjointed. Rarely does it make sense to us as we’d like it to. In this regard Malick’s film is certainly honest, if not encouraging.
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The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
BY: Denis Haack
Occasionally films are released for which money and effort seemed to be poured into everything but the story—Avatar (2009) comes to mind—and the fact the story is the primary point is painfully obvious, but Terrence Malick uses the screen more like a painter would a succession of canvases.
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Tonight we ate soup, home-made bread, and a salad in the living room in order to enjoy the Christmas tree. And because the dining room table has been recruited as workspace for various creative projects that will result in hand crafted gifts for friends. Simple pleasures, simply enjoyed, with deep gratefulness and the realization that grace alone makes it possible. In Ransom we believe that it is in the ordinary things of life that true significance rests, because it is here that we are called to live out our lives before the face of God. If exploring this understanding of reality is of interest to you, we hope you will find the material on this website to be helpful.
Denis & Margie Haack
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