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There were lots of interesting moments, but perhaps my favorite was the one where a student asked me what I thought of Dead Poets Society<\/i> (1989), and because I haven\u2019t seen that film since it was brand new \u2014 since I was not much older than the student herself \u2014 I found myself giving her an opinion of the film that was probably older than she was. Every time I mentioned an element in the film that supported my opinion, I added the words \u201cif memory serves\u201d and waited for her to confirm that my two-decades-old recollection of that element was correct. And thankfully, she always did. But I hadn\u2019t realized until then just how old that film is now. Maybe I should give it another look.<\/p>\n

It was also interesting to see how quickly cultural touchstones can fade in importance, or relevance. One of the teachers there mentioned that he had been using my review<\/a> of Signs<\/a><\/i> (2002) in his class as an example of how to approach films from a Christian point of view, but whereas, five or six years ago, he could assume that all of his students had seen that film, nowadays it isn\u2019t quite so well-known.<\/p>\n

Oh, and one student asked me to settle a bet, by declaring which actor was the first to play James Bond<\/a>. When I said \u201cSean Connery,\u201d he turned to the girl sitting next to him and said, \u201cSee?\u201d And she replied, \u201cBut he couldn\u2019t be! He\u2019s so old!\u201d I replied that the Bond franchise was now 46 years old, and indeed, the first movie had come out back when my dad<\/a><\/i> was in high school.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I hope to get back to regular blogging soon, but I had a wedding to attend this morning, and my evening is currently up in the air, and tomorrow I might be catching a plane out of the country, so it might take a while. Soon, though, soon!<\/p>\n

And thanks to Graham Nickel and the other teachers and students at M.E.I. who made my week a very interesting one.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"