http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/pre2000/i-fearloathing.html
Okay I just had to laugh. I didn't mean to but it just happened after I read this review from a Christian perspective (whoever reviewed this movie was a hard-core Christian), and I think it was a guy who did the reviewing. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is one of my favourite movies and I'm a Christian who has gone to Catholic school my whole life. For this reviewer, he pretty much damned this movie to hell by complaining that it promoted drug culture, has sexually-explicit material (fyi there are NO sex scenes in this movie only small amount of dialogue that could MAYbe be alluded to sex). This reviewer waited this whole movie to witness something moral or redeeming. Hello, Fear & Loathing is pretty much a documentary on the drug culture of the 60s & 70s and the whole movie should be interpreted as "look how awful drugs affect you" because both Dr. Gonzo (Benecio Del Toro) and Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) are so badly beat and burned by drugs by the end of the movie. That should be moral and redeeming enough?!
Maybe this is the problem with strict Christians and their views on what they see in the media, be it movies, music, headlines in the news. Sometimes die-hard Christians, like the one I'm complaining about, are too close-minded to think for themselves. What happened in the 60s & 70s is a part of American culture and we cannot reject it, we have to learn from it. Also, we cannot be searching for morality and Jesus-related material in a movie about DRUGS! I don't even know what this Christian person was expecting! Maybe they should remember that at the same time that scenes like Fear & Loathing were happening, there were also hippies promoting Jesus. Perhaps this Christian should have watched Godspell instead of Fear & Loathing in order to get a better feel for the culture in the late 60s.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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