"Pleasantville" (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:06:17 -0600
From: Bennett Haselton <ben...@peacefire.org>
To: ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom List <ala...@ala1.ala.org>
Subject: Re: "Pleasantville"
You can read a review of this movie at "Christian Spotlight on the Movies" at:
http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/i-pleasantville.html
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Some vague moral message of "pleasant moderation is dull/colorless; any new
experience (sexual pleasure, violence, reading, and love) is
good/colorful". Utterly unbiblical! We know that true joy is found in
knowing and serving our God (Psalm 19:8, Psalm 28:7, Isaiah 58:14, Acts
16:34, Romans 14:7, Romans 15:13).
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This whole site in general is fun. There's a page on it somewhere
explaining how come we can see stars that are millions of light-years away
even though God only created the world in 4004 B.C.
I haven't seen the movie.
-Bennett
At 10:03 AM 11/16/98 -600, Harvey Hahn wrote:
>I just had the chance to see the film "Pleasantville" over the
>weekend. Since it's been out for a while now, I'm surprised that no
>one has mentioned it previously since it has a strong intellectual
>freedom component in its theme and content. Any thoughts?
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>Harvey
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Soundwave [Chad Gould]
: You can read a review of this movie at "Christian Spotlight on the Movies" at:
: http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/i-pleasantville.html
Hmm... any site that tries to weave the explanation of bibles by describing
the Bible's reference to a "behemoth" (*) as a dinosaur is not one which I take
seriously. (:
A better review is Roger Ebert's at
http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/23pvil.html.
(*) In fairness to the site, it's not the only one that does that. However,
from what I know of Judaeism mythology (which the behemoth is part of), the
stretch is ridiculous.
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