GalacticMu

It is no secret that I’m an atheist, though other members of GalacticMu vary. And this shouldn’t matter, except when I am doing something like watching this astonishing clip of a title sequence of a movie called 3:19 (and no, not the western, like I also briefly, sleepily, thought - 3:10, 3:19, what does nine minutes matter?).

I was sent into a fugue state watching the first half of the animation, enjoying it for one of those moments where, because I expect nothing at all, I am startled to my very core. And then I started to notice the religious implications. Oh, that 3:19, as in Genesis (no, I didn’t read the sidebar for the link until afterwards). God’s great mechanism, I get it. Everything of infinite and divine plan. Yawn.

From what I’ve read the movie itself is not religious as much as “faithy”. It sounds unappealing to me on a lot of levels, but largely because it apparently succumbs to the neo-dramatic mechanism of having everything connect, making for lumbering, interconnected failures such as Crash and Babel. I’d like to watch a movie about how nothing happens for a reason, about how no one action any of us takes affects the lives of anyone else around us. I’d like to see how the poor black girl working at the White Castle does not affect a affluent Swiss banker whose father was shot in the street by a cop who mistakenly identified him. That’d be a good movie.

Via Dark Roasted Blend