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Café Society (2016)
Laugh Along With Their Immorality
Cafe Society is a term used to describe an elite (shallow) group of wealthy and/or famous people who participate in social activities that are unreachable to ordinary people. This film mainly centers around (1) early Hollywood and (2) the main character's dysfunctional family.The leading actor is not a convincing innocent & all the characters have a debased & distorted view of personal morality.
Unfortunately this movie provides clear evidence of anti-Christian bias on the part of the filmmakers.The mockery & derision of Christianity seems to be the prevalent norm among films being released by Hollywood,there are virtually no films with positive Christian portrayals.
The protagonists brother Ben commits a murder and is given a sentence of capital punishment for his crimes,he converts to Christianity for its promise of an everlasting life after death. In the scene where the characters are discussing his decision and the concept of heaven, his Jewish mother states: "First a murderer then a Christian? What did I do to deserve this"
Blasphemous Posturing & Hostility Masquerading As Humour.
The film industry in the USA have normalized what was once considered deviant and are defining as deviant what was once considered normal.Lower standards and moral relativism are promoted by movies like this. Deviant and normal have officially swapped places when it is acceptable humour to put Christians on a par with murderers
The Last Kingdom (2015)
Christians Versus Pagans
This series was interesting because of it's depiction of Christians acting violently and justifying themselves through Christian writings. Peace and peacemaking,is a central part of Christ's teaching. Jesus Christ in the New Testament,spoke mainly about how people should treat each other,but he did not give us guidance on how to deal with brutal invading savages who were intent on raping, beheading and using the weak and defenceless as human sacrifices to Odin. Unfortunately peaceful community based thinking can only be the downfall of a group that is faced with sociopath & psychopathic conquering behaviour.The violence directed at the Vikings was self defence, once the pagans realised that their opponents would not back down without a physical fight they had no choice but to give in.
Loving your enemies is a notion that looks good on paper, but does not seem to work out too well in practice.Love for your fellow man is very easy to practice when individuals have enough space & material resources, to live reasonably comfortably and 'the other' is fundamentally normal and not actively seeking to subjugate and/or kill you.These invading pagans were eventually defeated by the Christians and their powerful pagan leaders converted (the season ends with Guthrum being baptized a Christian) for shallow political reasons-so nothing to do with the working of the Holy Spirit. The Catholic Herald has railed against this series citing it's "contrast of pagan manliness and Christian hypocrisy", but I feel the depiction of both sides is even handed and probably historically accurate.The portrayal of King Alfred,(known as the Great King Alfred by history), contrasted his physical weakness with his strategic intelligence and strong religious faith.
The Free Speech Apocalypse (2015)
Atheistic Leftist Politics Exposed & Deconstructed
This film is quite disturbing it exposes the degeneration of our Western culture.It specifically focuses on the so called progressive movement and shows us how progressive educators have impacted the US educational system and turned colleges into places where radical ideological indoctrination takes place.Colleges and Universities are not effective with regard to fostering critical thinking skills.The young people in this documentary were unable to think critically about and analyze Doug Wilson's arguments on ethical decision making because they were functioning at a low cognitive level, due to the politically biased teaching they had been subjected to.
Dumbed down liberal progressives are unthinkingly throwing away traditional boundaries and norms like they are garbage.Dissenters are routinely taken to court,boycotted,demonized 're educated',and/or destroyed, as seen in the interview with the owners of a Christian bakers who were fined $150,000 for refusing to bake a same sex wedding cake. These extremist leftist conceited zealots think they are doing something new and exciting by rebelliously overthrowing oppression (normality) when in reality they are ignorantly shattering something precious and essential to humanity. The bunch of college students who disrupted Doug Wilson's rationally presented lecture on traditional values because they interpreted it as nothing more than despicable hate speech seemed deranged.This lecture theater debacle shows us how the progressive cause has turned into a vicious form of fascism that doesn't want disagreement to have a voice.
London Road (2015)
Extremely Odd Film About The Community Spirit & Resilience Of The People Who Lived Down The Same Road As A Serial Killer
Making A Mockery Of Murder ~ This is a film about the Suffolk Strangler/Ipswich Ripper murders. Steve Wright is currently serving life imprisonment for the murder of five young women in Ipswich,Suffolk.The film focuses on the local community and how it pulled together and recovered from the shock of his grotesque spree killings. It features the real and unscripted words of the local residents put in the mouths of actors.It's presented in the form of a light hearted musical which is bizarre and slightly disturbing.These killings took place during the winter of 2006 which is only nine years ago - it's very insensitive for the film industry to exploit this tragedy & disregard the grief of bereaved parents in the pursuit of entertainment.
Descendants (2015)
Satanism Out In The Open ~ Disney Aren't Bothering To Hide It Anymore
The Devil That You Know: This Is A Children's Film That Promotes The Luciferian Archetype.
The film ostensibly deals with an ethical dilemma. Will the teenage children of sinister Disney characters choose to follow in their evil parents footsteps,or decide to embrace their goodness and save the magical kingdom of Auradon.
HARMFUL PSYCHOLOGICAL THEMES: The male character Ben tells the daughter of Maleficient her that he can 'see goodness when he looks into her eyes, not evil' When he asks her if she loves him, Mal says that she doesn't know what it feels like to love; Ben says he might be able to teach her.
This particular theme is promoting the co-dependent idea of winning the love of a nasty hearted female through the power of romantic love. It is a psychologically unhealthy message & unfortunately children who have experienced abusive parenting will be highly susceptible to this dysfunctional notion. Any relationship based on one person trying to fix the other is doomed to failure.Those who make it their business to try to fix others are not empaths, they are people who were abused as children, their need to heal others stems from an internal sense of shame-they regard themselves as not being worthy of a normal (non-abusive) partner. Males who unconsciously seek nasty women as romantic partners are unconsciously trying to mend an inadequate mother.
* The movie is intentionally being marketed to very young children. The shades of grey philosophy is too complex & confusing for young minds to process-it is developmentally inappropriate . A definite boundary between good and evil needs to be presented to very young children - it needs to be represented in a stark way, as in the contrast between black and white.
HARMFUL SPIRITUAL THEMES This movie glorifies villains and it encourages very young children to explore dark energy. The general public is so brainwashed and desensitized these days that they will not understand that this movie is openly mocking God by glorifying the Luciferian archetype - how many parents will even realize that what they are putting in front of their children's minds is blatant mind control.The film makers are pushing a satanic Gnostic belief system onto innocent unsuspecting minds. Gnosticism teaches that Lucifer is not bad - just misunderstood. This philosophy is not harmless,it is an occult inversion of Christian teaching. Disney would never have been able to get away with this a few decades ago but anything goes these days. Early experience has an important influence on adult behaviour so when the young children watching this sort of material grow up they will easily accept occult and illuminati type themes due to the fact they have sentimental & warm childhood memories of films like this one.
* Disney recently released the sequel to this film it's called Decendants 2 Long Live Evil. The title says it all.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Saturated With Illuminati Themes & Satanic Symbolism ~ Fantastic Beasts Is Clearly Pushing A New World Order Agenda
This is not just harmless entertainment. It is intended to steer the the uninitiated masses thought processes and spiritual beliefs.The character of Mary Lou Barebone who denounces black magic as wrong & harmful, is depicted as an abusive zealot. Although it is never explicitly stated that the character is a Christian, it is very heavily implied. JK Rowling is known to have a longstanding hostility towards Christians and Christianity.
This film is not something young children should be exposed to because it is jam packed with occult references and impressionable minds are likely to be influenced by the positive portrayal of occultism and not recognize the proselytizing intent. This material advances an anti-Christ worldview.The twisted message Fantastic Beasts gives to impressionable children is...'yes the demonic does exist but it is not wrong or dangerous, it is good fun & anyone who says otherwise is evil.'
Making potions and casting curses or spells on other people (witchcraft) is presented as good when in reality it is not. I expect to get a lot of down votes for this review because unfortunately people will always excuse this franchise.
Bitter Moon (1992)
Portrait Of A Pathological Relationship
A psychologically sadistic narcissist/sociopath (Oscar) subjects an immature naive young woman (Mimi) to a relationship of Idealization- -devaluation--callous discard. She moves from highly valued to worthless in the blink of an eye and does not comprehend why this happened. After completing the disordered relationship loop and lacking the internal prohibitions that prevent normal people from deliberately maltreating a vulnerable person, he becomes highly sadistic & gratuitously cruel,he literally brings her to her knees. Not realizing that he is severely personality disordered,she desperately clings to him trying get an explanation-some kind of reasoning that will allow her to make sense of it all. Unfortunately, instead of moving on from this negative experience she becomes seriously unhinged and decides to play him at his own game. Furious and unable to fully understand why he went off her, she embarks on a vicious campaign of revenge which leaves him physically paralyzed & dependent on her as his caregiver. The two of them become locked in a disordered form of mortal combat. Everything becomes a power play which eventually leads to her murder and his suicide.