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Re: C.S Lewis
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Anyone who thinks about being romantic and loving needs to see this film, Shadowlands. It is beautiful and moving and also intelligent. I cannot think of a film that depicts romantic love in a more realistic and superb way, very much lifelike. Brings me to tears each time I see the film, great acting too.
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I have heard of the movie, Shadowlands, but never knew it was about C.S. Lewis. Thanks so much for the tip! I've just made a note to look for it.moderntimes wrote:
Incidentally, who's seen the superb film about Lewis and his love for his wife, "Shadowlands", w. Anthony Hopkins just perfect as Lewis. I highly recommend this film for Lewis fans.
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I agree & highly recommend itDATo wrote:I have heard of the movie, Shadowlands, but never knew it was about C.S. Lewis. Thanks so much for the tip! I've just made a note to look for it.moderntimes wrote:
Incidentally, who's seen the superb film about Lewis and his love for his wife, "Shadowlands", w. Anthony Hopkins just perfect as Lewis. I highly recommend this film for Lewis fans.
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As I say, it's taken from his own memoirs about her illness and death from cancer, "A Grief Observed". The book itself -- short and intense, is a superb book but mostly for Christians. The film is more general and although it of course deals with CS Lewis' Christian faith and his wavering due to Joy's illness, it is also a superb movie about genuine romantic love between two adults, deeply moving. And brilliantly acted -- one of Hopkins' best roles.
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So I've never read them, as I simply don't enjoy juvenile fiction as an adult -- sorry but it bores me. I did read the Lewis SF trilogy which was essentially a thinly disguised religious series but I mostly enjoy Lewis for his nonfiction and of course Screwtape Letters.
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I've not read what Pullmann said about Lewis but it's likely typical. Thing is this: CS Lewis is known as a Christian apologist. The term "apologist" is unfortunately misunderstood as "making an apology" as if wrong had been committed. But the accurate meaning of this is someone who is a staunch advocate of a certain policy or belief. Strong supporters of environmentalism can also be correctly termed "apologists" which is not a negative connotation.
Some scientists are agnostics or atheists and that's fine. A few of these are however snarky toward believers, which is simply rude. I don't want this thread to be sidetracked into a debate on religion but let's face it -- Lewis was a devout Christian and Anglican, and his beliefs are essential to a thread about him.
And "for the record" I'm both a trained scientist and a believer, and don't find the two exclusionary. My original formal education was in chemistry and biology and all my life I've studied science -- I've read extensively on cosmology, quantum physics, astronomy, etc. and find that if I really study concepts about the origin of the universe (big bang and so on) I'm even more persuaded that God exists. But this is just my personal belief and I don't intend to proselytize here. It's just that CS Lewis was a believer and he was true to that belief in his writings, both fiction and nonfiction. Critics may justly disagree with his tenets but insults and rude taunts are simply cat-calling.
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