De La Mennais Brothers: Making Jesus Christ better known and loved by young people

Here's an adaptation of the response I posted to a blog entry on Chris Curtis' blog SPOILER ALERT - for the film "Sunshine". DO NOT READ ON IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THE ENDING. I thoroughly agree with Chris' take on the film and its thoughtful dealing with issues of science, faith, etc.... I have now seen the film twice. Like Chris I saw thematic similarities with a film I mentioned in an earlier post, "Children Of Men". A specific similarity can I think be seen in "Children..."'s use of the expression "Jesus Christ!" when people see the pregnant Kee, or Kee and her baby for the first time (eg. Theo + Sid) and in "Sunshine"'s use of "My God" (eg. Corazon finding a little surviving plant amidst the burnt out oxygen room - God perceived through nature - and Capa when he sees Pinbacker in the observation room in the near blinding light and Pinbacker replies "Not your God."... I think there's ma...

Here's an article by film guru Mark Kermode about a new film I saw the other day: "Sunshine" by Danny Boyle (he of "Trainspotting", "28 Days Later" and the wonderful "Millions"). Kermode, always quick to point out possible spiritual themes in the films he reviews, does so here with an interesting analysis that I hadn't considered myself but will have in mind when I go to see the film again next week. 2007: a scorching new space odyssey One of the most exciting British movies this year is Danny Boyle's sci-fi epic, Sunshine, which puts the divine back into a genre that had lost its way. To film-makers, it seems, the infinite has a spiritual attraction. Mark Kermode Sunday March 25, 2007 The Observer ( original article ) At a key moment in Danny Boyle's radiant new sci-fi film Sunshine, a character is asked, 'Are you an angel?' With its retina-scorching visuals, which blaze from the screen into the dark abyss of the cinema a...