The aim!

Coming to a blog near you, actually right here, before your eyes, are a series of exegetical critiques of films, past, present and future, informed by the created world of film, my world, and the world of the Holy Bible. Critics of the art of film come a dime a dozen but lack critical analysis from the Christian community. The few who are film critics typically limit their analysis and interpretation to an attempt to find redemptive parallelisms with the redemptive story of Christ. This attempt, in my opinion, is a difficult temptation to overcome since either evangelicals have read the story of Christ in heroic ways, viewing Jesus Christ as some sort of hero, which is a product of the American ideal of heroism, or, given that America has been shaped by evangelicalism, often find aspects of the Gospel of Christ in film.

While I do acknowledge such parallels, my aim is to take film analysis away from the typical Christian parallelization of film and into other areas of criticism and interpretation yet informed by the world of the Bible, a world that takes readers beyond just redemption and into other relevant themes of life.

I look forward to sharing my gaze and thinking of film with you. Oh, what I mean by ‘gaze’ is the film’s dominant power over viewers,  namely the power of captivating your attention. In many ways film is a magnet for your eyes.