The Book of Life
In a movie review titled "The Book of Life" (Christianity Today, October 24, 2014), Nick Olson begins the review with a hook from the beginning of the movie baited to catch even readers as wary as we:
A busload of spitball slinging schoolchildren are unloaded at a museum, expecting to spend the day menacing the world around them. However, they are greeted by Mary Beth, a quick-witted tour guide who seems knowledgeable in dealing with mischievous tricksters.Not the Book of Life Christians usually talk about, but this one sounds like a fun movie for a man of my sort, a fellow interested in telling tales, so let's check out a trailer: Here. Or another: Here.
Grabbing their attention with an optical illusion that leads to a secret passageway, Mary Beth leads the children to an obscure room where she introduces them to a mysterious book. It's the "Book of Life," she tells them, and it contains all of the world's stories.
Well, it's certainly colorful.
Labels: Films
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 7:45 AM
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I found The Devil's Backbone and the first Hellboy film stimulating and interesting, but otherwise Del Toro has disappointed me. I see lots of elaborate and stylized images here, but I don't see anything that looks in any way "magical."
Neither do I, nor so mysterious, either, as I might have let slip by my 'colorful' remark.
Jeffery Hodges
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