{"id":813,"date":"2011-07-19T13:59:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T20:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/?p=813"},"modified":"2011-07-20T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T18:42:12","slug":"wisdom-at-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/813","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom at the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/813\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>I watch too many movies. There\u2026 I\u2019ve admitted it. While others are reading books or debating the great issues of life at sophisticated dinner parties &#8211; or so I imagine &#8211; I\u2019m enraptured by the latest Hollywood epic playing on my Blu-Ray and magnified through a large-screen projector and 5.1 surround sound system. As guilty as I feel, I can&#8217;t help but be captivated by these two hour lodestones of modern culture. To be sure, movies are rarely philosophical masterpieces (and I rarely watch art-house films anyway) but I am usually compensated by an art form that is rich in narrative, humour, imagery and\/or auditory beauty .<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, some movies do provide occasional insights that resonate with my own experiences. I&#8217;ve always believed that wisdom can be found anywhere if you look hard enough. Even in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few:<\/p>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<p>1.<em> Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War<\/em>: On American triumphalism in the aftermath of the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/charliewilson.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">We&#8217;ll See<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. <em>Breaker Morant<\/em>: On law and morality during war&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/303.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Rule .303<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. <em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/em>: On the meaning of death&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/curious.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">We&#8217;re meant to lose the people we love<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. <em>Hannah and Her Sisters<\/em>: On the meaning of life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WoodyAllenEnjoy.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy Your Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<p>Is there a line from a movie that you remember well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watch too many movies. There\u2026 I\u2019ve admitted it. While others are reading books or debating the great issues of life at sophisticated dinner parties &#8211; or so I imagine &#8211; I\u2019m enraptured by the latest Hollywood epic playing on my Blu-Ray and magnified through a large-screen projector and 5.1 surround sound system. As guilty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,17,19],"tags":[71,70,69,72],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-in-a-philosophical-mood","category-modern-culture","category-movies","category-technology","tag-death","tag-life","tag-movies-2","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}