I should really catch up on posting these before the week is out!! Second Sunday in Lent, (last week) continuing the theme from ‘About a Boy’ Marcus Brewer takes up his cross.
I have been fascinated with the film About a Boy for a while and used it to convey a message about the trinity, well Lent has come around, so now I have been busily delving into the richness of this film again, this time for a whole series of Lent sermons all based around charachters and images in the story. I know roughly how it all ends up – but getting there might be interesting!! Here’s the first installment: Will Freeman and the Wilderness
There is a lent course called ‘Christ and the Chocolaterie’, having not looked at it I cannot tell if what I thought while watching the film has been said before or not… But anyway, here goes. Chocolat – a beautifully acted and scripted romantic film – but also so overtly religious, how could anything useful come of it! Ignore the Catholic rhetoric, the pompous, yet frightened town Mayor controlling both priest and people and focus rather on the tempestuous chocolaterie opened just in time for lent. The devil has come to town. The words almost cry off the screen....
