The Golden Compass

I finally got to see The Golden Compass, though I have not read any of the books, I had thought the previws of the movie looked good, and I did enjoy the movie for the most part, now I had mentioned here before the controversy that had surrounded the movie, in the fact that the author of the books is an atheist and it is said he put his views into his work and his books are made for young adults, so when the movies came out a bunch of people were afraid that parents would buy the books for their childern after seeing the movie and then there childern would be corruped or become athiests or some such.

Now I had heard from countless people that claim they saw the moive, say that the movies itself has nothing to do with relgion and how they really downplayed that part of it in the movies, but after seeing the movie, I personaly thought the religious asepct of the movie was pretty blatently obvious, I mean to not see the connection you would have to be pretty dense. I mean they do not call it religion in the book but the metaphor/symbolosim is pretty much screaming at you.

For one thing you have the main power that wants to control everything called the Magestrium, and the building of the Magestrium looks very much like the Vatacan, then you have all these people walking around in what very much looks like priestly robes calling everyone who does not agree with them heretics.

And the whole premisss of the movie is the idea of the battle for free will becasue the Magestrium wants to control how everyone else thinks and how they act. There is this one scene which where childern are being taken, that looks very much like a catholic school where the childern are educated/brainwashed so they can be "purified"

Within the movie, there are several refereance to some ancient mistake that people had made which has left people corruped now, and so they have to try and clense themselves now from that corruption, becasue once upon a time ago a very bad thing happend.

There was also this speach this woman gave in the movie, about how some people do not know what is best for them and so for thier own good they have to be told what to do.

Which to me is the philosophy of Chritianity in a nutshell.

So peraonlly I thought the religious aspects of the movie glowed like a bacon in the darkness.

8:16 AM - 1/3/2008 - post comment

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