Sunday, November 03, 2013
Sunday Reflection: The Role of "Aliens"
Yesterday, I went to see "Ender's Game," the 4,398th movie to come out in the last year with a theme that revolves around an alien invasion. Before the film, the audience was treated to previews of several upcoming movies with aliens. The ones that didn't have aliens involved magical beings or artificial societies (ie, "Hunger Games").
Given that almost no serious movies are made with religious themes or subtexts, are these things filling the void of the human need to believe that there must be something in the Universe that is different and in some way greater than ourselves?
