Fridays on ‘Doves and Serpents’ are film nights. That means you can get your popcorn and follow along with a set of legendary and rogue directors and films that have made an impression on us. Please watch the films along with us (we’ll announce each one a week beforehand), and share the personal experiences you have with them. We’d like you to feel like you’re part of the group: except for the distance, we’re sharing a living room, and hope to learn from each other.
According to the Slovenian thinker Slavoj Zizek, we go to the cinema in order to learn how to see the world: to learn how to live. In our exploration of the deep and complex world of film, we’ll go off the beaten track, into foreign territories, for sure. We can’t promise you’ll be safe: but you can expect to come back a different person than when you embarked.
Check out our schedule for the next few weeks here.
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Why so many that are rated “R”? It just seems kind of strange.
Aaron, that’s got no part in the decision-making process… I’m based in the UK, where we have an entirely different ratings system – to be honest, I wouldn’t know which ones are ‘R’ or not, without checking. It is interesting if there’s a lot of ‘R’ rated films, though, from the point of view of recent LDS teachings – these films have been chosen by contributors as being particularly powerful or life-changing films. Is it possible that ‘R’ rated films have a greater range of emotional expression? Or not?
Does that mean my life has to be ‘R’ rated in order to have a greater range of emotional expression as well?
Do you think that, for example, sexual expression (which might give a movie an ‘R’ rating), might give a life a greater emotional range? I think so.
I do think that sexual expression is healthy – but not on a big screen with a million viewers. This is where our opinions differ.
I think most adults can distinguish the difference between something they see on a big/small screen and their life choices. Perhaps children cannot do this so easily – hence the ‘R’ rating. If you’re a ‘grown-up’, you’re supposed to have the ability to make individual choices, informed by – but not determined by – art. Or at least, that’s the foundation that the certification boards base their judgements on.
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