2.10.11
Film of the Week #1
The King’s Speech
What a beautiful film!
How should I sum up the things I liked about it?
It is a story of friendship, extraordinary in the context of a sovereign and a subject.
Who made the royals royal anyway? Are they or should they be any different?
It is a story about duty and never shirking away from it as did George VI.
It is a story of triumphing against adversity.
It is a story of love – victorious even against the throne.
It is very British – the pomp, the pageantry, the protocol.
The performances of Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter are truly deserving of commendation.
An Oscar in the making?
Film of the Week #2
Conviction
When I saw the trailer of this movie while in the US last year, I thought it would be a compelling emotional roller-coaster of a film. It is a story of a sister who “sacrificed” her life in order to go to law school and defend his brother who she believed was innocent of his murder conviction. Nice premise, but sadly – at least for me – it lacked “heart”.
Towards the end of the movie, I had to ask myself – will I go that far to love a brother? I doubt so. I cannot be a Betty Anne Waters.
If anything, I am one who lords it over his siblings, who thinks highly of himself and look down on them, who cannot commiserate with them for their bad choices, who offers very little sympathy for their plight, who considers them burdensome and a pain, who prefers the ever-lengthening distance between them, who, up to now, sadly does not understand the unconditionality of love. And yet pretends he has “sacrificed” a lot.
Why can’t I be Betty Anne Waters?
REFLECTIONS
Numbers 18-20
Numbers 18:20
I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites.
* The Lord’s priests are well-provided. But will anything be better than having the Lord as inheritance?
The Rock Episode of Moses
Numbers 20
The Lord to Moses: “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water…”
Moses to the Israelites: “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.
The Lord to Moses: “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”
The result:
Deuteronomy 34:4
Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.”
* It does seem a little bit whimsical but God is God. To whom much is given, much is required.
The King’s Speech
What a beautiful film!
How should I sum up the things I liked about it?
It is a story of friendship, extraordinary in the context of a sovereign and a subject.
Who made the royals royal anyway? Are they or should they be any different?
It is a story about duty and never shirking away from it as did George VI.
It is a story of triumphing against adversity.
It is a story of love – victorious even against the throne.
It is very British – the pomp, the pageantry, the protocol.
The performances of Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter are truly deserving of commendation.
An Oscar in the making?
Film of the Week #2
Conviction
When I saw the trailer of this movie while in the US last year, I thought it would be a compelling emotional roller-coaster of a film. It is a story of a sister who “sacrificed” her life in order to go to law school and defend his brother who she believed was innocent of his murder conviction. Nice premise, but sadly – at least for me – it lacked “heart”.
Towards the end of the movie, I had to ask myself – will I go that far to love a brother? I doubt so. I cannot be a Betty Anne Waters.
If anything, I am one who lords it over his siblings, who thinks highly of himself and look down on them, who cannot commiserate with them for their bad choices, who offers very little sympathy for their plight, who considers them burdensome and a pain, who prefers the ever-lengthening distance between them, who, up to now, sadly does not understand the unconditionality of love. And yet pretends he has “sacrificed” a lot.
Why can’t I be Betty Anne Waters?
REFLECTIONS
Numbers 18-20
Numbers 18:20
I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites.
* The Lord’s priests are well-provided. But will anything be better than having the Lord as inheritance?
The Rock Episode of Moses
Numbers 20
The Lord to Moses: “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water…”
Moses to the Israelites: “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.
The Lord to Moses: “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”
The result:
Deuteronomy 34:4
Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.”
* It does seem a little bit whimsical but God is God. To whom much is given, much is required.
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