Dear Diaries: Wholesome Isn't The Same As Entertaining
"Critics look at The Princess Diaries, Rush Hour 2 and Original Sin. Plus, when it comes to violence in the movies, should we see no evil?"
Jeffrey Overstreet | posted 8/01/2001 12:00AM
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I'd have to agree that, sometimes, if a movie shows characters inching their way toward understanding, it can be much more affecting, encouraging, and realistic than those dramas that show characters completely changed and redeemed in a blink of an eye, suddenly freed from all their struggles. While God's grace may stand ready with its transforming power, the walk through life's obstacles and ills is a slow and difficult journey, and in a film like Ghost World, where the characters' role models are not providing good examples or examples of God's grace, they have to fight for every scrap of insight they can get.
Next week: What Film Forum readers and movie critics have to say about violence in the movies. Plus, reviews of new summer releases like Osmosis Jones and The Others.
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Earlier Film Forum postings include these other movies still in theaters: Planet of the Apes, Jurassic Park 3, America's Sweethearts, Legally Blonde, The Score, Cats & Dogs, The Fast and the Furious, Scary Movie 2, Dr. Dolittle 2, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Kiss of the Dragon, and Shrek.
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