MIFF 2013 - Day 5
A bit of a religious experience today...
IN BOB WE TRUST
Chronicling Melbourne icon Father Bob's struggle to remain as parish priest of South Melbourne, this is both damning and celebratory. Opening with a potted history of the Catholic church, narrated at rapidfire speed by Father Bob and illuminated by cutting together moments from just about every celebrated film about faith (and quite a few not so celebrated) we come to the present day, where the daily work of the parish priest involves caring for the sick and needy, working with the homeless and the drug addicted, and generally doing all sorts of things that seem to piss off the Catholic heirarchy. Things like working with the homeless and caring for the sick and needy. You'll learn a lot about Bob watching this, more than enough to make you wonder what the hell the heirarchy was thinking when they decided to try and get rid of him. The Catholic church needs more priests like him, especially these days.
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY
This isn't as good as The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. But it's two and a half hours of Slavoj Zizek using cinema to talk about ideology and how it works upon us. And it's really fun to listen to him talk and comment on film. By far the best bits are centered around his dissection of Titanic, and the more noxious ideas it embodies. Second best are his thoughts around The Last Temptation of Christ, Job, and the meaninglessness of suffering. By far the most entertaining philosophy lecture I've attended in years.
IN BOB WE TRUST
Chronicling Melbourne icon Father Bob's struggle to remain as parish priest of South Melbourne, this is both damning and celebratory. Opening with a potted history of the Catholic church, narrated at rapidfire speed by Father Bob and illuminated by cutting together moments from just about every celebrated film about faith (and quite a few not so celebrated) we come to the present day, where the daily work of the parish priest involves caring for the sick and needy, working with the homeless and the drug addicted, and generally doing all sorts of things that seem to piss off the Catholic heirarchy. Things like working with the homeless and caring for the sick and needy. You'll learn a lot about Bob watching this, more than enough to make you wonder what the hell the heirarchy was thinking when they decided to try and get rid of him. The Catholic church needs more priests like him, especially these days.
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY
This isn't as good as The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. But it's two and a half hours of Slavoj Zizek using cinema to talk about ideology and how it works upon us. And it's really fun to listen to him talk and comment on film. By far the best bits are centered around his dissection of Titanic, and the more noxious ideas it embodies. Second best are his thoughts around The Last Temptation of Christ, Job, and the meaninglessness of suffering. By far the most entertaining philosophy lecture I've attended in years.
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