Purpose: To give you a chance to rethink a movie you've seen or a book you've read already in light of morality. You have seen many movies and read many books. How many have gotten their basic story line as a struggle between good and evil, right and wrong?
Choose to reflect upon a book or movie that illustrates and illumintates an important aspect of morality well.
Two part assignment:
Brief summary of the moral dilemma. Where is the conflict between right and wrong, good and bad? Is it between groups? Between people? Inside a person? Be very clear and complete about the moral dilemma. Do not give a summary or review of the whole movie!
Add a section in which you note and explain three key ideas from Catholic Morality/Social Teaching that is in the writing (or that might be crucial in helping here).
What do you learn about morality from this story? How is your awareness of good and bad, right and wrong, illuminated? Does it offer you any answers? Does it guide, inspire, challenge you?
Please put this on your web site so that others can read and learn from you.
Simple, but clear: Big Daddy, Family Man, In Good Company, Bruce Almighty, Beauty and the Beast, Crash, Forrest Gump
Classics: It's a Wonderful Life, You Can't Take it With You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, High Noon, Shane, Paths of Glory, All Quiet on the Western Front,
Watch a new movie that might inform you in a totally new way. Try one of these really good movies that are historically solid. Watch a movie about a historical person then do a research project on that person and/or the real story.
Plays and Musicals: Amadeus, Man of LaMancha, Fiddler of the Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Recommended Recent Movies
Charlie Wilson's War
Summarize tthe movie. Is this movie historically accurate?
Also wathc both "bonus features."
If this movie is accurate, did the U.S. do the right thing?
Retell the story of the Zen master. What is the personal benefit of remembering this moral of this story in your life?
