Essential Films For Theologial Reflection

The Confessing Reader has picked up on some suggested lists (as well as macking some suggestions) for films that theologians should view, over at Codex @ Biblical Studies and Pontifications. There is also further related discussion at the very interesting Faith and Theology blog.

Making lists like these is always a fraught venture. Great films get missed, mediocre films get over-elevated status. That said I did like seeing The Big Kahuna make such a list. I saw this film at a packed London Film Festival screening. The film is a tight and compelling drama, which unpacks some pretty heated male relationships (in a way not unlike Glengarry Glenn Ross). However, a great deal of the plot revolves around questions of faith a moral fibre, especially in relation to one of the characters who is a born-again Christian. Although the film is cinematically flawed, it raises a lot of relevant issues about the nature of faith both in both the workplace and society at large.

[tags] Theology and Culture, Faith and Film, The Big Kahuna [/tags]