When you wish upon a star...

This isn't a movie review, but I saw Pirates of the Carribean 3...boring. Let's see if we can resolve 14 story lines in 2.5 hours. Wait for the video.

Here's the rub...My son and I were talking about the movie, and in the course of discussion we got on about the heroes of the movie, and his conclusion, which is probably representative of many moviegoers, is the guys who are supposed to be the goodguys end up being the badguys, and the pirates, the supposed villains, come off as the good guys. Scrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeech (sound of brakes coming to a halt).

This is the problem with most Disney movies. A good movie will always unearth the goodhuman/hero, and at the end will give you a glimpse into imagining the possibilities of what can be when the evil or conflict is resolved in the movie. With Disney movies, we're always taken back to status quo and nothing gets resolved.

Bear with me...so in Pirates we have the British army, or some of them, as scoundrel, and the pirates, become the group everyone cheers. How did it happen that this group of thieves, murderers, perverts and rapists...yes, that's what pirates do...how is it they become the heroes?

It's because we like them. They're characters who are funny, and interesting, but we take celebrity, and translate that into, "they're the good guys".

Back to Disney...Think of a movie (other than the princess ones), and follow the plot. Goodguy/underdog runs into conflict/opposition with evil villain. In the end the villain falls flat as a non-entity, poised to rise again, and the underdog goes back to status quo or rises to middle class American existance. When do we ever see the movies as resolving the problem of evil and showing us what can be in this world with the absence of evil.

The gospel tells a different story, and the power of the story is the image of possibility for fullness of life through Christ in His kingdom incarnate in the church.

Yo Ho, a pirate's life for me...

rZ