Heretical musings on religion and culture from a literary scholar
The original Snow White myth is already full of esoteric, hermetic symbolism; written to preserve alchemical wisdom during times of persecution. So they could have left the story alone when making the 2012 movie Snow White and the Huntsman. Instead, somebody in Hollywood decided to stuff so full of overt, deliberate and obvious Christian symbolism that I feel like I've just suffered through a two hour sermon with flashy special effects. I knew something was off in ...
I think it's possible to accuse me of sometimes seeing too much religious/biblical symbolism in contemporary movies: but in the case of the new Tron Legacy movie (2010), any Sunday-schooler can see that religious themes have been blatantly incorporated: a programmer creates an artificial world that gets away from him, his creations rebel against him, his son will need to come and save everybody - obviously there are some Christian parallels here. The fun part ...
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