“I’m tired of people praising a film just b/c it agrees with their worldview. That doesn’t make great cinema, craft does.” –Kyle Prohaska
1st Thought
Truth is like a Bouncer at a club. We love it when it’s on our side, allowing us to slip in ahead of the crowd, but we hate it when it’s throwing us to the curb.
And this applies directly to those of us in the Arts. Because art at its most basic form communicates worldview. And It doesn’t matter what you are creating or even what your intent is, you will leave deposits of your worldview’s DNA all over the art you create. Period.
And don’t give me that baloney that your art is there to communicate nothing. Nothing is still something!
Now some Christians are bedfellows with Michael Moore. They make propaganda. Propaganda isn’t concerned with reality. Only its own perception of it. It creates a world in its art where a certain worldview makes sense and all others don’t.
The problem is that propoganda’s worldview doesn’t always fit REALITY! Sure you can make your worldview work in the make-believe world of your story. But does it actual fit reality? Nope? Than it ain’t True.
2nd Thought
Truth does not have to be complete to be true.
I love Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. I literally wept at the end the first time I watched it. It communicates a powerful Truth. A universe where there is no benevolent God, where the only force is the uncaring, mechanical gears of existence will obliterate dreams, hope and ultimately sanity.
Now that film isn’t completely True. There is a benevolent God and He does care.
But Brazil communicates its worldview truthfully. The “Love Conquers All” ending the studio wanted would have made the film a lie. As it is, the film is going to go down as a classic because it is True.
Sumary Thought
Truth does not revolve around my worldview. Just the reverse. And Truth is constantly cutting away the overgrowth of lies in my worldview. And in yours.
