An Errol Morris Religion?
I’m not sure I agree with Tyler’s post and all the adoring comments it’s recieved. But then again, I still haven’t managed to see the film (AGH!) so maybe I’m just missing what everyone seems to be trying to articulate. It seems to me that what’s being described are, pretty much, four different ways to worship God. None of these descriptions seem to quite get at all of, or even half of, the qualities a Biblical God possess. They are, rather, ways we worship God by trying to conform ourselves to his image. And yet if we’re conforming ourselves, we’re in essance creating ourselves, which makes us God-like. But not God. After all, the Bible says “all our riches are as filthy rags compared to the glory of the Lord.” (this isn’t exact, but it captures, I think, the essance of the verse. But maybe we’re not talking about God in a Biblical sense; that’s just what I think of when someone says God. How does one become a stand-in for God? I ask this in both a filmic and novelistic sense, as I’m all over the Christ-character concept, but I don’t think I’ve encountered a God-like figure. How do you, anyway, represent someone/something who is all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful. No human has all the answers, we can’t even figure out what truth is, so how can we portray ourselves as even coming close? Maybe someone can help me out!? I promise to try and see the movie soon, but I’m halfway through The Fog of War right now, and I’m finding it STUNNING (but more on that later). Besides, talking about the concepts of the movie seems to me to be almost more “brain-charging” than talking about them in the context of the film. Doesn’t Morris want us to take them outside of his films and engage with them anyway? But that doesn’t mean I won’t watch. I will make a valiant effort to see this, arguably, fantastic movie.
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