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graygirl
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Date Joined Aug 2001
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| Posted 10/27/2001 7:34 AM (GMT -6) |   | i have to vent somewhere about this so here is goes
i just finished the movie Chocolat. interesting movie. basically about a town that is catholic, gray and pious (sp?)...but doesn't know how and doesn't allow enjoyment (indulgence) of any kind. typical sterotypical christian scenario. while we don't have that to that extreme in our generation (....well, we probably do) the theme this movie brought out is still there...and still a struggle
this tension between holiness and the enjoyment of life. for example this movie used chocolate as the indulgence in question...however you could easily place a glass of wine, a beer, a cigarette, (dare i say free thought, imagination) whatever you want in it's place....and then beyond these "vices" is the idea that holiness and the enjoyment of life don't go hand in hand....one of the characters of the movie thought it was his job to save the townspeople from venturing into any indulgence for fear that it would consume them..so he went to the extreme and banned things that are enjoyable- strangley enough i understand his hunger for holiness...am i making any sense???
a comment in the movie that illustrates this tension i'm badly communicating here was:
"we don't measure our goodness in the things we deny ourselves, but in what we embrace".....
part of me says YES! but then part of me says "WHOA".....then the attempt to figure it out just give me a nosebleed and i vent on a message board......
peace out
GG
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