… let me tell you this now:
The next movie that I will be raving and raving about, and exhorting everyone to get out and see, is the Oscar-nominated film out of Germany:
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days.
Remember how the best parts of The Silence of the Lambs were those scenes in which Agent Starling faced Hannibal Lecter and wrestled with him in debate?
Imagine a movie with at least an hour more of those confrontations–intense, furious battles of conscience and wits. When you watch Sophie Scholl face a Nazi interrogator in an epic battle, you’ll be drawn to the edge of your seat. Julia Jentsch is already the front-runner for best actress of 2006, in my book. Her performance here is riveting.
My review will be posted at Christianity Today and I’ll be writing about it for SPU’s Response as well.
Further, let me say that Christians should spread the word that this is a must-see. It’s as important a film about faith as anything since The Passion of the Christ. Fortunately, it’s also very well made.
I’m predicting that 2006 is going to be twice as good a film year as 2005. It’s only mid-January, and I’ve already seen THREE films that will probably have prominence in a year-end Top Twenty list – A New World, Tsotsi, and now Sophie Scholl: The Final Days. Must-sees, every one.
Jeff. I’ve been reading your blog for quite a while now. Thanks for all the great posts. I was a pastor in Seattle for 12 years, now I’m in Canada. I’m also a good friend of Adam Walter (I love it when you link to Adam’s blog.) I just finished reading a book, THE WHITE ROSE, by Inge Scholl. Inge is Sophie’s sister. It’s a good companion to this movie. I think you would be interested.
The guy that organised this obviously doesn’t have a clue about what SPU women are really like.
Anyhow didn’t the whole “who’s hot” online phenomena come and go a couple years back? Apparently someone was feeling nostalgic.
“Barely a blip” at UW? So women there are so used to being objectified, they don’t notice any more?
I’m not sure whether to call it “feminism” or just “a healthy sense of propriety and self-esteem,” but whatever it is, I’m glad some SPU women still possess it.
So he’s telling women who:
– feel uncomfortable that their names & pictures were selected for this purpose w/o their permission
– feel unsafe b/c of the publicity
– feel degraded by the nature of the game
… that they need to improve their sense of humor?
Maybe he’s right, but it seems more likely that he is insensitive and ethically-challenged.
Turnabout: what if his name & picture were put on some site that used them for sport? Maybe he would like it, maybe he wouldn’t… so … what if he wouldn’t?
Does the guy behind this even realise he’s at a Christian campus?
We may see SPU’s first public lynching come out of this. (As opposed to the many private lynchings that have happened over the years.)
Here is a TV clip for those who can’t get enough of this story. Complete with images from the controversial Web site, with blurred-out faces!
Why do news media always call SPU “conservative”? It sure didn’t seem conservative to someone with my fundie-background.
Because there are only two categories for people: conservative & liberal. “Conservative” means more conservative than the person speaking, and “liberal” means more liberal than the person speaking. To a fundie, almost everyone is liberal. To someone in the mainstream media… Well, I’ll just let that hang.