“Movies are our way of telling God what we think about this world and our place in it. . . . Movies can be many things: escapist experiences, historical artifacts, business ventures, and artistic expressions, to name a few. I’d like to suggest that they can also be prayers.”
Josh Larsen puts movies into the categories of: Praise, Yearning, Lament, Anger, Confession, Reconciliation, Obedience, Meditation and Contemplation, and Joy. I make the case for The Rescuers Down Under being a prayer of yearning.
Also, a couple Mea-Culpas: First, Josh Larsen was ” the film critic for the Chicago-based Sun-Times Media for more than ten years” not whatever I said on the show.
Second, I don’t think I actually have mentioned this book on Before They Were Live before. I believe I talked about it during the 2018 Christian Humanist Radio Network Halloween Crossover while discussing Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of A Doubt on Sectarian Review. Fun episode, and great show overall. You should check it out!
Finally, I probably should have mentioned that friend of the show Ethan McCarthy was instrumental in getting the book published. Nice job Ethan!