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Maradon!

posted 11-30-2012 11:43:40 PM

I absolutely loved this movie. For about a half hour I kept getting ready to roll my eyes, waiting for the deist propaganda to start, but it never came.

In a letter to author Yann Martel, Barack Obama described the story as "an elegant proof of God."

Did he watch a completely different movie? Because that's not what I came away with at all, very nearly the opposite in fact.

Maradon! fucked around with this message on 11-30-2012 at 11:44 PM.

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Inferno-Spirit

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posted 12-01-2012 02:52:20 AM

I'm eager to see the movie, having read the book, but what made you have any expectation of deist propaganda? (I haven't seen any trailers)

The story was elegantly told, but it was a humanist story of elaborate tragedy and coping mechanisms. It didn't have a theistic feel at all to me.

"He lets the last Hungarian go, and he goes running. He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and he goes after the rest of the mob. He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they grew up in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone. Underground. No one has ever seen him again. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. 'If you rat on your pop, Keyser Soze will get you.' And nobody really ever believes." - Roger 'Verbal' Kint, The Usual Suspects

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Gadani

posted 12-02-2012 04:00:52 PM

I saw it last week and it was wonderful. Despite the religious references, I felt absolutely no bias or propaganda in either direction.

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Maradon!

posted 12-03-2012 08:21:13 PM

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Inferno-Spiriting:
I'm eager to see the movie, having read the book, but what made you have any expectation of deist propaganda?

I went into the theater with no predisposition at all.

The early parts of the film seemed like they were getting ready to deliver a glorification of faith in general, with Pi's blanket acceptance of religion and the claim of a tale that would "make you believe in God." (Rafe Spall's character even seemed to throw that televangelist cathedral-echo reverence into the word God)

For a horrifying half hour or so I was preparing myself for the sort of movie that people with "Coexist" bumper stickers cook up in their utopian disney cartoon visions of ethnic harmony, and that seems to be how religious people have chosen to take it.

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