Storied Theology

This weekend we watched the cult classic, Donnie Darko. The film is disturbing, challenging, and at least a little bit confusing. The plot involves Donnie, a teenager with emotional problems and apparent hallucinations, in a series of acts guided by a mysterious, disturbing looking 6-foot-tall rabbit. (Harvey, anyone?) As Donnie is led by the rabbit [...]

We just rewatched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest last week. It is an amazing, troubling film, worthy of its five Oscars et al. It is a story of redemption, of deliverance–a story in which Jack Nicholson’s character, R. P. McMurphy, plays a leading role. But what struck me in the film is that for [...]