The Bible clearly speaks of God's handiwork found throughout creation. As the author of our universe, can speak to us in numerous ways. Obviously, his voice is most easily heard through the Bible, but I consider it an exciting part of my life to find God in other places too. It is especially fun to find God in the movies.
Spiderman 3 came out last weekend. I was tempted to see the midnight show on May 3rd, but was having a hard time imagining being able to function well the next day on 4 hours of sleep. I was anxious to see the movie in IMAX for the first time, but unbeknownst to me, there are even greater Spiderman fans out there who bought up all the tickets to the IMAX shows...all day, every show! I settled for a "regular" ticket and throughly enjoyed the show.
A main theme throughout this movie is Spidermans wrestling with the dark side of his costume. It is an easy analogy to the sin nature that we fight all the time. The lure of the dark side is tempting and fun. There is always a price to pay however, and even Spiderman realizes that. As the movie progresses, Peter Parker learns about forgiveness and making right choices.
Without giving too much away, I found it interesting that when Spiderman finally realizes that the dark side of his costume has begun to consume as well as tempt him, he finds release from that struggle in a church. The scene opens with a close up of a cross and Spidey stuck to the side of the steeple. He eventually wrestles free from the black costume, (and oh what a struggle it is, sound familiar?) comes to his senses and starts to makes the right choices.
Was director Sam Raimi intentional with his "theology"? I'm not sure, but I do find it interesting that when the whole good vs. evil is shown in a movie, often it ties in with Christian sub-themes. Enjoy the show if you get a chance to see it and let me know what you think!
espidey (in case you didn't get it from my blog name...)
1 comment:
Posted by Aaron:
I noticed that too about the Spiderman church thing... what you forgot to mention is the very next scene flashes to Peter taking a shower... water... baptizing himself being born again, cleansed.
The entire theme of the movie was about forgiveness too:
Goblin Jr. forgiving Peter, Peter forgiving Sandman... bad things happened when people did not forgive: Goblin Jr. was mad at Peter and lead to bad things - until he forgave him... Peter (when he was under the influence of the black suit) did not forgive the other photographer and ended up ruining his life... then Venom taking revenge on Peter leading to his death...
Wednesday, May 9th 2007 @ 12:18 PM
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