movies and fascination.

"Your favorite movie and what it's about."


Here's the problem: I don't have a favorite movie.
Does anyone truly have one favorite movie?

So I'll do top three (at most; not in order) in various categories.

Comedy: "Hot Rod," Okay, there really aren't many comedies that are more comedy than romance. And the ones that are are just plain awful ("Dumb and Dumber"). I don't even know why I like "Hot Rod."

Romantic Comedy: "Artois the Goat," "The Holiday," um. I'm drawing a blank now. I'm sure there's something. "The Holiday" is a stretch right now, even though it is a good movie.

Children's/Animated: "Jonah: A Veggietales Movie," "Aladdin," "Fantasia."

Drama/Action: "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Patriot," "Inception"

Other (fitting into several categories): "Stranger than Fiction," "Benny and Joon"

Horror: Oh wait. I don't watch horror movies.

Musical: "Across the Universe," "Moulin Rouge," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"

Series: The Harry Potter series, the Lord of the Rings series, the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

"Someone who fascinates you and why."


Oh dear.
How can I do this without being too obvious?

I can't.
So I won't.

I suppose I'd say that Hitler is fascinating.
I mean, how can one person harbor so much hatred?

And isn't it strange and terrifying to think that, if we chose, any of us could do that sort of destruction?

I am destructive every day.
I judge and tear down and murder.
(In Biblical terms, you know, the whole hatred equals murder part of the Sermon on the Mount.)
I just do it all inside my head or under my breath.
I get upset with people for driving too closely behind me.
I get annoyed with baristas and cashiers and my own parents.

Is my hatred different from that of Adolf Hitler?
Just because it is not expressed in such gruesome and widespread ways?

Perhaps it is, because I acknowledge that what I do is wrong.
Perhaps it is, because I know that I am covered by the grace of God.

But, perhaps it is not.
Sin is sin?
Murder is murder?

Does God look at my silent murder differently from Hitler's mass murder?

(These are not really meant to be hypothetical/rhetorical questions. I'm okay with thought-out responses.)

This is an iffy post, especially because it will show up when those who are checking out Bethel Blogger applicants look at my page.
But this is an honest post.
And is nothing like any post that I would put on a Bethel Blog.