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Current mood:	bored
Entry tags:	movies: 2008

Movie Friday!
I saw Narnia today. And then got pissed off at a mechanic. (Why do I have a warrantee if you refuse to look at the car?) And then had restrained happy-bunny-is-going-to-cut-you rage until I got my way. And all was better. But first, the movie, because I don't have to be at work again until Monday and I intend to, heh, enjoy this weekend.



1. Peter and Caspian. Epic gay. EPIC. GAY. Oh, my God.

2. I don't remember the gender issues in PC specifically, only that Susan is eventually kicked out of Narnia permanently for the irredeemable crime of adult femininity, but I thought that she was pretty kick-ass.

3. Yeah, Lucy is supposed to be the unsullied innocent, whatever. Children are by definition morons, this is why nothing you do before the age of 18 is held against you permanently, but I still wanted to shake her and listen to her rattle more than once.

4. I figured out that Telmarines=Muslims at the same time that I figured out that Aslan=Jesus at age nine, so we're not talking subtle here. And C.S. Lewis had huge, leaping issues with race and gender, of this we all know. Having the one token good Muslim Telmarine both 1) convert and 2) be played by a white actor did not exactly help that, but it's been too long since I read the books, so I can't say whether the movie ameliorated that, made it worse, or kept it exactly the same. Whatever, everyone figured out that Evil Overlord was an Evil Overlord with a side of bumfuck crazy within five minutes and spent the rest of the movie throwing Machiavellian political shrewdness at him, so I will happily read against the text if I have to.

5. Except that nearly all of the Noble Savage centaurs were played by black actors. All right, that was admittedly a "OH JOHN RINGO NO" moment.

6. See, I have this problem with original sin, and the fact that I absolutely cannot believe in it. I think that any God who would condemn someone to unimaginable tortures for all eternity for the great crime of all of the little unintentional cruelties that the average person commits in their lifetime is a God to be fought, not followed. Leaders are supposed to be better than their subjects, which is why I was asked to leave Sunday school at age eight. However, I love religious themes for some reason, and the paradox of someone realizing that they deserve punishment thereby mitigating that punishment makes my feet kick. I love the whole concept of grace. I just do. I've also always loved Edmund, little smartassed shit-stirrer that he is, so this movie was a whole big pile of candy for me in him being the one to keep the last images of the dead, being level-headed enough to step in between Peter and Caspian when they were waving their dicks at each other, and being the one to step in and throw the White Witch aside with a snarky comment at the same time.