Well it has been quite a week. Somehow this week seemed much longer than actually 5-7 days. Interesting how time works but then again in the long run (eternity) time isn't really an issue because it's eternity, if that makes any sense. That's a bit of an abstract concept for this morning as I'm still waking up. As I'm dancing a lot more this semester that means I have been sore quite a bit. Weird because I wake up sore and then can't get comfortable enough to sleep again oh well. So I decided to start the homework I should've been doing all week. We are reading a book called Hollywood Worldviews by Brain Godawa. It's about learning to look at the meanings behind movies. He included an excerpt from Geoffrey Hill's Illuminating Shadows: The Mythic Power of Film that I thought portrays movie-goers, myself included, quite well:

"As ironic modern worshippers we congregate at the cinematic temple. We pay our votive offerings at the box office. We buy our ritual corn. We hush in reverent anticipation as the lights go down and the celluloid magic begins. Throughout the filmic narrative we identify with the hero. We villify the antihero. We vicariously exult in the victories of the drama. And we are spiritually inspired by the moral of the story, all while believing we are modern techno-secular people, devoid of religion. Yet the depth of and intensity of our participation reveal a religious fervor that is not much different from that of religious zealots." (Hill 3)

copyright:
Illuminating Shadows: The Mythic Power of Film by Geoffrey Hill
found in
Godawa, Brian. Hollywood Worldviews Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2002. Print.