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The Shipping News
(2001)
 | Information at Internet
Movie Database |
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Roger Ebert Review, Chicago Sun-Times. |
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Movie Parables
review. |
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Hollywood Jesus
visual review. |
| Values & Visions Video Guide:
The Shipping News, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality &
Health - Spiritual Practices for Human Being. |
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Review, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Health -
Spiritual Practices for Human Being. |
| Themes
 | Garden of Eden
 | Quoyle learns that his family had been banished from
another island for their evil. There is a scene
in which we see them dragging the ancestral home
across the ice, as they have been evicted from their
Eden. (Darrel Manson, Artesia, CA) |
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| Transformation,
Conversion, Rebirth, Father Figures
| Great movie on
transformation, resurrection, clinging to the past, resisting
transformation . . .Main character has experience of "drowning" in
childhood with uncaring father that effects his life, is able to find new
life in new place, is able to see how the past gets "drug" into everything
and finally how to break free of that past. Great movie on so many themes.
I plan to buy it for my collection. Watch it! (Rebecca
Herring) |
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| Ubiquity of Sin/Evil
| Sin/Evil as a knot - good and evil
are tangled together into a "knot" - "knot" images are seen throughout
this film. |
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| Raising of Lazarus - Resurrection,
Rebirth
| The wake, during which Jack arises,
is found at DVD ch 17. This entire movie is the story of rebirth for many
characters, especially Quoyle, who is portrayed as the walking-dead. He
finds life through confronting the "demons" of his past, and through
finding community and relationship in a village in Newfoundland. |
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| Death
| DVD chapter 3 - Quoyle tells Bunny
that Petal is "asleep with the angels" because Quoyle himself can't
confront the death. Later, after Jack's wake (DVD 17), Bunny wants to know
why they can't "wake" her mother, and Quoyle tells her the truth about
Petal's death. |
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| Despair
| Before he moves to Newfoundland,
Quoyle is the definition of despair. He has seen himself in relationship
to others who have hurt him. |
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| Demons, Confrontation
with Evil, Baptism
| Quoyle has a literal confrontation
with the "demons" of his past. He has seen himself (and steered his life
accordingly) through the negative influence of his father and other family
"demons" he has not recognized. He faces these forces and is reborn after
a storm. (Baptism of the Spirit - Wind and Water - lots of water imagery
in this film - drowning and being changed.) |
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