Hollywood is killing God
In new strange – Covid – times, cinema reaches the viewer in different ways than before. Then the film came out, advertising began to pile up - and everyone rushed to the cinemas. But it was like that before. True, “Tenet” miraculously made its way to the audience. Now it’s not a big deal, but on the contrary – people are looking for interesting films themselves, using, for example, Netflix. And the latter, in turn, helpfully offers viewers a new product, buying everything in a row and producing its own (the most striking example of this is Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman”).
Actually, Netflix this year, among other things, gave us a very interesting picture, “The Devil is Always Here.” I’ll leave the cinematic analysis for other publications, but now it’s important to say this: it’s not just the anti-Christian, but, I would say, the anti-divine rhetoric of the film that is creeping in and growing stronger. Although, I’m sure they may disagree with me and challenge my opinion.
Meanwhile, even if we disagree, it’s worth tracing the evolution (or de-evolution?) of Hollywood’s views on faith, religion, and God. Previously, if all this was not displayed in the first row (although this also happened), then at least in the feeds it was presented as an important and system-forming element. And in general, in Hollywood cinema there was a struggle between Good and Evil, even if the former was presented as a rude, sexist jock with a flamethrower. But this struggle also began to disappear and become thinner over time. What is characteristic of modern cinema: the villains there are not too different from the heroes, and the latter, in principle, desperately suffer from vices.
So what about God, about faith? The point here is not about flagellation of church vices - the tendency towards pedophilia of some Catholic priests, for example. No, the point is that Faith has generally ceased to be positioned as something that can be saved and saves.
One example: everyone probably remembers films (including classic ones) in which nosferatu, ghouls and ghouls were pathologically afraid of holy water, crucifixes and Bibles. However, over time - in the XNUMXs - this idea changed. Vampires were killed using completely different methods - the Word of God, the Phenomena of God ceased to act on the creatures of darkness.
And in Hollywood cinema, nothing happens for nothing, but has a specific reason. American films are generally very politicized and full of hidden meanings, because production directly depends on power. From state and transnational orders.
And today it is obvious that this order acts, among other things, against the adequate representation of faith, religion, and God in cinema. This is again part of the positioning of a set of rainbow values with their LGBT, radical feminism and the like. And they can ultimately be reduced to one thing - anti-Christian rhetoric, in everything and everywhere, including in cinema. Is this not what was once archaically called the end times?
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