What's going on?

Dave and I snuggled up tonight to watch the newest batch of movie trailers on apple.com (a regular pasttime for us). There were a lot today... about 25 new ones. I was all excited and ready for it, (we both love movies) but after watching about 5 of them, I began to feel tired and bored and even depressed. Dave and I ended up skipping a lot of them half-way through.

I started to wonder why it wasn't fun tonight. We always avoid the horror previews, because those just freak me right out, so it wasn't that. I then noticed that all the new movies seemed to be kind of depressing and unhopeful. Even the comedies had darker, morbid elements to them. Why is this? What's going on with our movie industry these days? What's going on with the world that is demanding this kind of entertainment?

Maybe it has to do with what's going on in the world today. Wars. Bombs. Terrorists. Fear. The damaging sexual revolution. Maybe we are expressing the despair we feel around us, exploring the darker side of humanity... and I didn't even watch the most intensly dark previews!

Here's what I noticed: the connection that strung all these movies together, was the hazy line between good and evil. In all the previews, there was no wrong or right. No good and evil. No God... (But there was Satan). There were no heroes that made you want to live life and be strong, doing what you were made to do despite all the odds. There were no battles between good and evil. There were no really interesting plots, because how can you have a story worth watching if you don't know who's side to be on, if you don't know what's right and what's wrong?


Perhaps this is how the world feels right now, and how the people are expressing their confusion... not knowing whether or not to believe the media or their government leaders, or the political activists... wanting something more than a mediocher life, but not knowing what there is out there other than that. Everyone seems to be producing propoganda for something. Whether it's for their own personal gain or for the greater good of the world, it's so hard to tell these days.

Where are the Braveheart characters that make you think it's possible to do something noble in life? Where are the heroes who stay true to their marriage, who fight for justice, who feed the hungry, who protect the defenseless in life? I tell you, if someone made a (GOOD) movie where the main character was actually honest and noble and trustworthy, it would be a revolutionary idea in these days.

I'm sad to see where we are at. There is so much evil in the world, yet the evil is telling us that there IS no right and wrong, and that's the biggest scheme yet.

And now I'm telling you that there IS a right and wrong. There IS good and evil, and if we don't know that in our lives, we are going to be sideswiped off our feet by the wrong one. There is a God, and he has a noble mission for you in life. He has joy for you. He has good things for you, and hard things for you, but he loves you, so you can always trust him, and know that life is going to be an amazing adventure, no matter what the circumstances around you are. Can I hear an AMEN?