{"id":1549,"date":"2013-03-07T23:33:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonofcarey.wordpress.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2013-03-07T23:33:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:33:16","slug":"how-to-evaluate-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"How to Evaluate Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While looking for a source today, I came across chapter 3 of a book by <a href=\"http:\/\/sonofcarey.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/30\/if-only-i-had-three-hands\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Frame<\/a> where he offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frame-poythress.org\/ebooks\/theology-at-the-movies\/#chapter3\" target=\"_blank\">12 ways to judge films<\/a>. Left unstirred by his list, I compiled a few questions myself to ask about movies.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What does this film encourage you to love?<\/li>\n<li>Does this film desensitize you to the horror of sin?<\/li>\n<li>Does the writing and plot encourage classic and enduring values? Does it&#8211;even as entertainment&#8211;make you grow to see beauty, complexity, or truth in a previously overlooked area or perspective?<\/li>\n<li>Will this movie enable me to think and meditate more clearly, or does it have the life-sapping, mind-numbing quality of much modern fare?<\/li>\n<li>Is it written for a youth culture that demands constant action, trivial plots, bathroom humor, animal stimuli, and foolish authorities corrected by heroic kids?<\/li>\n<li>Does it glorify unscriptural, unrealistic gender roles?<\/li>\n<li>Is sin consistently punished, or is it sometimes &#8220;the only way&#8221; to solve the problem?<\/li>\n<li>Does it degrade the sacred? Do the setting, characters, lines, and story massage the viewer&#8217;s feelings into enjoying the profane or even the banal?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Yes, I recognize that there is a lot of overlap within the questions, and ultimately they all may be branches projecting off the trunk of the first question. If so, then maybe we&#8217;ll get the point: We cannot rightly judge art without examining the effects on our feelings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While looking for a source today, I came across chapter 3 of a book by John Frame where he offers 12 ways to judge films. Left unstirred by his list, I compiled a few questions myself to ask about movies. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=1549\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[37,41,55,356],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists","category-orthopathy","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-john-frame","tag-lists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QrZa-oZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}