{"id":3364,"date":"2007-01-12T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/01\/o-felix-culpa\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T14:31:00","slug":"o-felix-culpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/01\/o-felix-culpa.html","title":{"rendered":"O Felix Culpa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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One of the good things about Netflix is that you can get minor movies that are only a few years old to watch again. I don\u2019t think Pleasantville<\/em> was too hot at the box office, but like Groundhog Day,<\/em> it is a fascinating fantasy film with strong theological themes.<\/div>\n
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The plot involves two contemporary teenagers from a broken family who get sucked into a black and white TV show. It\u2019s called Pleasantville and its a 1950\u2019s Andy of Mayberry, Dick Van Dyke Show, Leave it to Beaver <\/em>world. Every night Dad comes home to pot roast, ice cream and home made cookies. Everybody smiles and is polite all the time. Everybody is a virgin, everybody is nice, everything is neat and tidy and \u2018just so.\u2019<\/div>\n
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But the brother and sister bring sin into this little Americana Eden. The results are interesting to watch. People start seeing things in color. One by one as the characters are enlightened they start to become colorful as well. Chaos and corruption start to creep in. Mom has an affair with the local soda fountain man who has discovered a talent for painting. Violence erupts as the little town\u2019s neat and tidy, black and white world is shattered by color.<\/div>\n
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The fascinating thing about Pleasantville<\/em> is that, while it has strong theological themes it isn\u2019t really preachy. It shows that sin brings suffering and corruption and violence, but it also shows that human choice brings beauty, love and real freedom. Through sin the characters of Pleasantville<\/em> lose their artificial, neat and tidy perfection, but they gain something more. It can\u2019t be said that this is an overtly Christian film, and some Christians will find the sexual content and artistic nudity portrayed as disturbing. However, it is a thoughtful, entertaining study of free will, self righteous repression of freedom, and the effects of the fall.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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