Empire
of the Sun
(1987)
- Information at Internet Movie Database
- Review, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Health - Spiritual Practices for Human Being.
- Themes
- Eucharist/Communion
- When Jim is finally rescued by soldiers he holds up a can of condensed milk in a reverent pose, as if it were a chalice.
- Exodus
- At the end of the hostilities American bombers drop canisters of food from parachutes to feed the refugees and camp inmates, a clear reference to the 'manna' from Exodus. (submitted by Michael Clark, Hamilton, Canada)
- Healing/Healer
- The young hero, Jim, thinks that he can raise the dead because while he was trying to rescusitate a dead woman her eyes moved. Later in the movie he thinks that he can raise everyone who has died in the war. (submitted by Michael Clark, Hamilton, Canada)
- Holy Grail
- When Jim is finally rescued by soldiers he holds up a can of condensed milk in a reverent pose, as if it were a chalice.
- Miracles
- The young hero, Jim, thinks that he can raise the dead because while he was trying to rescusitate a dead woman her eyes moved. Later in the movie he thinks that he can raise everyone who has died in the war. (submitted by Michael Clark, Hamilton, Canada)
- Eucharist/Communion
