In my media and society class we were talking about the different elements in film and how religion plays a major part. Whether or not you agree that faith is or should be a part of the film industry is not the point. It does also not change the fact that there are a considerable amount of relious principles in film, and we are not talking about specifically Christian ideals. Every writer director artist and musician bring to their work a certain world view. Although not everyone agrees with each others we tolerate it or ignore it entire. As often is the case it is not even noticeable. Anyway got a little side tracked, but the idea i'm trying to get at here is that there are certain films that portray the existence and role God plays in humanity and nature. An example fo this would be the film Bruce Almighty. In this film as I will show you at the end here we see that God is in human form and trading jobs with a regular human being and it doesn't really work out all that well. We see here that God is not only at work but that his job is a lot harder than people make it out to be. Bruce has to fight against his human desires so as to not use his new God powers for his devices. He does however do this but there is always a consequence. Yes this is a comical interpretation of God and his role in the world for us today, but it does show that God is real and does in fact have a role in our world. Here's the trailer to help clear things up if you haven't seen it or are a visual learner like me :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAK5sJ77J78
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