Deep Focus (Engaging Culture): Film and Theology in Dialogue By Kutter Callaway

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Three media experts guide the Christian moviegoer into a theological conversation with movies in this up-to-date, readable introduction to Christian theology and film. Building on the success of Robert Johnston's Reel Spirituality, the leading textbook in the field for the past 17 years, Deep Focus helps film lovers not only watch movies critically and theologically but also see beneath the surface of their moving images. The book discusses a wide variety of classic and contemporary films and is illustrated with film stills from favorite movies.

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You can read my fuller review at Spoiled Milks (8/2/19).Movies allow us to share someone else’s life and walk with them for a few hours. They give us a sample shot of how life could go and cause us to ask what we would do in their shoes. We scream “Don’t go in there!” in horror movies. We tear up when the beloved family dog dies. We sit on the edge of our seats when the main actor slides to the edge of the snowy cliff, hanging on by only his ice axe. We harriedly wonder what it would be like to be in his shoes or to be in the shoes of his onlooking friends who fear the worst that they may not be able to save him. We feel a sense of awe at Sam when he bravely tells Frodo, “I can’t carry it [the ring] for you, but I can carry you!”How do movies have this effect on us? Are directors, producers, and editors merely trying to play with our emotions? To manipulate us? How are we to rightly interpret a movie? How should Christians approach movies? Just as many people wear glasses with “carefully calibrated lenses” so that we can se the world in focus, in Deep Focus, Robert Johnston, Craig Detweiler, and Kutter Callaway (JDC from now on) seek to bring you “a series of lenses to help us discern more clearly the images projected before us” (3).JDC use the analogy of a phoropter, that funny-looking machine at the eye doctor. The series of lenses they offer come in the following chapters: historical, narrative, audiovisual, critical, ecclesial, theological, ethical, and a cultural lens. The book ends with a converging of these lenses by looking at :the trauma of love in the films of Christopher Nolan.”This book wasn’t initially what I thought it was going to be. I thought there would be more dialogue between films and theology, more as to how to interpret films theologically. What this book offered however was how to even read what is going on in a movie. How does a movie’s audio help to make it seem real? What do camera tricks tell us, and how do they make films seem real? How do they add to the story? What makes more of an impact, special effects or a close up shot of a person, seeing their happiness, joy, pain, pleasure, displeasure, or the smile that creeps across their face when they’ve received good news right at the end of the movie? In a way, we are meant to share in the pain and success of the heroes on the screen. The tragedies in films like Titanic, Million Dollar Baby, and No Country For Old Men“serve as cautionary tales to wake us from our slumber—to make us more vigilant and proactive in our daily lives” (53).Toothpaste commercials always end with the person putting a big slop of toothpaste on their brush, as if to infer that you need this much toothpaste to have a clean and fresh mouth. But that’s not true, is it? And if commercials do that, why not movies?JDC write that, to always “be critically evaluating how a filmmaker might be trying to manipulate [our] emotions through film technique, script, and music” as a way to “protect [ourselves] from any experience of evil or from unknowingly imbibing destructive ideologies” will “unfortunately also shield viewers from fully experiencing the truth, goodness, and beauty a movie conveys” (167).To watch how a film is edited in just the right degree or how the music comes in at the right time and to remain skeptical to all it says will be to miss the boat. We won’t relate to the characters, neither to their plight nor their success. Yet neither do the authors say we should watch every movie. Some or many aren’t worth our time. And so we do need to be critical, because there is editing going on. People do “play a part.” Conversations never can be as long as what is needed to resolve difficulties.However, the authors note that when we watch a movie, “the audience is asked to focus exclusively on being present” (119). “In a sense, the real world must for a time stand still. Unless moviegoers give to the screen their ‘as-if’ assent, entering wholeheartedly into the movie’s imaginative world, its power and meaning will remain unknown” (119).We shouldn’t be surprised as the evil portrayed in movies, and if it is to portray life then should we expect the evil to truly be evil. “To sanitize life is to falsify the story” (163). Though again, how much should a person see? How evil should a person be in a movie? There is a balance, and you as the moviegoer need to discern on whether you should watch a movie or not. The authors note this as well. Two of the authors do not watch horror movies. Even though they know they are “just movies,” horror movies disturb them. So they refuse to watch them. But similarly we should be looking for the story of a movie, and to attempt to relate it to our own lives as Christians.Recommended?The subtitle to the book is “Film and Theology in Dialogue.” The theology is strewn throughout the book. References to God and Christ are made, and section are filled with Bible verses. Ecclesiastes makes an appearance more than once, as movies can often show the vanity of the material world, even while praising it. However, I was disappointed at how much (or little) theological discussion there was. But perhaps that was due more to my own expectations rather than what the book itself promised. This book is not a simple read, but it provides a good dimension on how to think through movies. It has given me a new appreciation for movies, and has led me to be less skeptical toward them, though still cautious at understanding which ones will linger with me negatively (like horror movies). Movies can help give us a grand vision, a reminder of the eternity placed in our hearts which points us to how things should be, something that can only be accomplished by Christ.

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