Kendrik wrote:What Legion supposes is that God has had it, and that there is no hope for humanity, that Christ's sacrifice means nothing. What Legion supposes is that an angel - the angel Michael - can change God's mind, and that God cannot foresee any of the actions (somehow, despite his omnipotence) that occur.
"Omniscience," mon amis. Simple semi-typo, but I just wanna clarify vocab for peepz.
It was like 4 am. My apologies.
How you choose to interpret the matter is important (did God ever actually intend to destory Israel? etc.), but that is the matter. As you described it (which may not fully detail the way things were in the film), the premise has a lot of similarity to something straight out of Scripture.
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You could draw that comparison; that would be giving Legion too much credit.
Angels are bound by collars, implying forced servitude. God is portrayed as something fearsome, as opposed to the loving God that we know from the New Covenant. The God that forgave our sins by coming down and dying on the Cross.
In that way, yeah, the movie even bears comparisons to Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. No redemption is shown, except for that which man makes for himself. This runs counter to the Christianity that I know.
But even that comparison is giving this movie too much credit. At least The Passion was a film that held artistic vision, emotion, connection to the subject matter by the author.
Still, it strikes me as trying to be a work of entertainment fiction rather than a theological dissertation, so I would treat it as such. Because of that, I don't fault the writers for taking a few biblical concepts to create an interesting premise. If it doesn't end up interesting, then that's definitely a fault on the creator's part, but the act itself hardly seems worthy of any contempt.
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Darksiders - that game I mentioned earlier - establishes within the opening minutes of the game that there are three kingdoms: Man, Heaven and Hell. A "Charred Council" holds back the ambitious Heaven and the corrupted Hell from destroying humankind and bringing about Apocalypse until such time as they can be counted equal to the other two. The Horsemen are the Council's safeguards, keeping Abaddon and the demons at bay... until something goes wrong, and humanity is wiped out. War is blamed for this, and cast out for a century.
Obviously, that game takes massive liberties with the Book of Revelation. So what's the difference for me?
Well, as I explained above (or tried to; I was tired, but wanted to say certain things before I passed out, because they were fresh in my mind), I have no problem with a story taking liberties with parts of the Bible. You and I have had plenty of discussions about this, man. I love Preacher, I love Hellblazer, I was even contemplating buying the graphic novel series Lucifer. These are not stories that hold fast and true to the Bible. These are stories that take vast liberties with it, because they can.
So what's the difference for me?
Writing. Intent. Storytelling prowess. As always, you're more than welcome to see the movie for yourself. I encourage you to if you feel a need to stand up and disagree with my opinion of something. Compared to you, I'm no theology expert.
That said, I know movies, and I know movies that are terrible. This was beyond terrible.
I won't deny that there was something good in this movie, a good message buried beneath the piles and mounds of dreck.
Two lines stick out to me. One I will say here, the other, you'll have to see:
"Lost is so close to being found."
Ain't that the truth.
