nathaniel ogden kidd (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bland_hyssop) wrote,@ 2007-01-11 09:32:00 |
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kabhie kushi kabi gahm
It was, without a doubt, and by a very wide margin, the best movie I have ever seen.
It was also the clearest picture of the Gospel I have ever seen on film. And here, I have seen movies explicitly based on the Gospels: Godspell, the Gospel of John, Mel Gibson's Passion movie...yet it is this Bollywood film which, completely unintentionally, sheds the most light on the workings of God, the character of God, and the mystery of God.
Perhaps it says something about the wide gulf between the Postmodern West and the highly traditional third and two-thirds world that I can hear the Gospel more clearly in Hindi than in American English. That is probably a question to ponder more in the future.
Right now, I am simply in awe.
Simply.
It was, without a doubt, and by a very wide margin, the best movie I have ever seen.
It was also the clearest picture of the Gospel I have ever seen on film. And here, I have seen movies explicitly based on the Gospels: Godspell, the Gospel of John, Mel Gibson's Passion movie...yet it is this Bollywood film which, completely unintentionally, sheds the most light on the workings of God, the character of God, and the mystery of God.
Perhaps it says something about the wide gulf between the Postmodern West and the highly traditional third and two-thirds world that I can hear the Gospel more clearly in Hindi than in American English. That is probably a question to ponder more in the future.
Right now, I am simply in awe.
Simply.
