Take a look at this short, utterly charming Pixar film:
Now, go read the Anchoress for her clever exegesis, explaining how this video tells the essential truth about Pope Benedict's newest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth). I'll have more to say about the encylical later today. I will say that it's striking to me how little attention the MSM is paying to this encylical, which has to do with the economy and the demands of Christian charity. If only the Pope had challenged the sexual revolution in some way, I suppose he could have gotten on the front pages. Tells you a lot about the priorities of our media.
(H/T: Reader Maureen)
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I loved that short film they played before UP.
The Anchoress' interpretation of it is interesting. It's not the same as I took home from the film, but it's a new and cool way to look at it.
I thought the little cloud creators to be very human, I didn't think of them as symbolizing the Creator, but us.
And humans produce (not just materially, but emotionally) what is good, bad, and average. We are called to love all in spite, of because of the good, bad, and average.
We are made in God's image, and God himself became incarnate in us. Every human being you see is an echo of his or her Creator. All the more so is this true of people who are hurting, angry, broken, poor, and hungry. They hold the key. In their emptiness, they are closest to being filled (and by the calling and direction of the Holy Spirit we are feed and clothe and comfort and love them all, and by his grace some of them will indeed be filled, and not by our doing!) These people ARE the Kingdom of Heaven, waiting to be realized.
Those of us who are comfortable and content are in the greatest danger of never seeking to be filled. There is an emptiness in all of us. It is a hard road to go within, and to find it, and to surrender it to its rightful owner, God, so that we can be filled. Some of us are helped along in this search by difficult life events. God is merciful.
"But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."
Nah,
The Dark Night, WallE, Tell No One, I've Loved you So Long, 4 excellent movies from last year off the top of my head, if I spent some time on IMDB I'm sure I can find 4 or 5 very good movies every year.
Hello Rod,
If only the Pope had challenged the sexual revolution in some way, I suppose he could have gotten on the front pages.
Given the Pope's very heavy emphasis on the essentiality of the traditional family and the culture of life (see the discussion of Humanae Vitae in s.15), I kind of think he did exactly that.
AnotherBeliever, I like your way of looking at the short film, too. I did find the Anchoress' interpretation very moving and interesting, and shared both it, and the film, with my children yesterday.
So tonight my family and I were at choir practice, going over a hymn for Sunday: "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise," a hymn I love for the sheer poetry of it. We got to the second verse, to the lines: "Your justice like mountains high soaring above/Your clouds, which are fountains of goodness and love." and my youngest looked at me wide-eyed, obviously thinking of the Pixar short film. :)
Tyler Cowen has a piece up at the WSJ on this. Well written IMO.
Steve
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