Autobiography of an American Yogi
God save the TV season?
In modern mass culture, a critical rethinking of traditional clichéd ideas about God, his relationship with creation, and in particular the problem of God-forsakenness is becoming increasingly popular. Recently, the first season of the series "Wonderworkers" was released. The essence of the plot is that God, played by Steve Buscemi, who has become lazy and literally descended out of boredom, decides to close the Earth project (our blue house will be destroyed by a comet), and a couple of idealistic angels (Daniel Radcliffe and Geraldine Viswanathan) decide the Earth - and you and me - by all means save it. Or rather, not even angels - employees of the "Corporation of Heaven", where further intrigue is unfolding. In keeping with the comedy genre, this is a typical earthly - and obviously American - corporation with a typical human set of values and passions: careerism, intrigue, vices and, most importantly, money. “Wonderworkers” is interesting primarily as another example of understanding, reflection of the image and concept of God in the (post) Jewish-Christian understanding of it in modern mass culture. Among many others, we note the series "Supernatural", "Preacher", "Juda" and "American Gods", the film "Interview with God". Judah is an Israeli mini-series that rethinks traditional Jewish messianic aspirations in an original way and in the context of the popular vampire vogue. The current vampire is no longer the ancient wrinkled old man Dracula (although he appears in Jude) with pointy ears and bat wings. The vampire of the 21st century is the stylish, pale and sexy Edward from Twilight. Saga". Or cunning and broken, "real Jew" Jude. A real Jew and ... the Messiah. Judah is a completely non-religious person, an avid gambler. "Earns" for burning life by playing roulette. Finally, having lost big, Judah manages not only to get a lot of money, but also ... to catch a strange "infection", so incomprehensible that for a long time he does not realize its significance and cannot believe in the revelations of the old rabbi. And Judah, no more, no less, was "initiated" into a vampire, now he "died" - in the former capacity of the "old man" - and must be born again, and not just as a vampire - but already as the Messiah. The main message of the authors is clear: everyone, the most sinful and fallen, can rise from the bottom and ascend to the heights. Ascend, realizing his divine potential, if he listens to the Voice calling him - perhaps from within, or perhaps in a crazy mess of terrible troubles and misfortunes. And here the very literal hint of the filmmakers is obvious - even Judas (Juda) can become the Messiah. The most sparing and respectful attempt compared to others to “humanize” the Almighty was made by the creators of Interview with God. According to the plot, being in a personal crisis, including a crisis of faith, a military journalist is internally reborn in the course of conversations with a sweet, kind old man. The interlocutor, who called himself God, leads the interviewer through the nooks and crannies of his own soul to catharsis, acting either as a psychoanalyst or as a trickster provocateur. Here is a reflection back to modernity, in which the psychoanalyst has replaced the priest: now God is taking revenge.
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I forgot to add that Indian cinema came out on top in the world with films: Mahabharata, Mahakali, Dharmakshetra, Time Machine, Radha and Krishna, Shani Dev, etc. And you can also remember "Island", "Andrei Rublev", etc. movies worth watching
Natella Poladova
God does not interfere in the affairs of people, and even more so in various crazy nonsense
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