Tag Archives: hope

“We have to just … keep carrying the fire.”

Posted on June 20, 2010 by

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a dark story, but it is not nihilistic.  The movie version of The Road (Hillcoat, 2009), at least, is ultimately a story about hope. In fact, The Road is a story about hope precisely because … Continue reading →

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“You see the world in a way that nobody else sees the world, and I like the way you see the world.”

Posted on June 6, 2010 by

In The Invention of Lying (Gervais, 2009), Ricky Gervais asks what a world without lying would look like.  His answer is interesting:  No one would be able to look beneath the surface.  The people of Gervais’s imaginary world are slaves … Continue reading →

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“Your baby is the miracle the whole world has been waiting for.”

Posted on June 29, 2008 by

I just re-watched the brilliant movie of Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006). The film portrays a dystopian future in which humans have become infertile and no children have been born for more than 18 years. The film explicitly links children … Continue reading →

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