The Culture Club (Film: The Squid and the Whale) June 7, 2009

This is the next study session in a series of culture studies where something from the media (e.g. a book, a film, a music album) is discussed from a Christian perspective but the session is for people of all faiths and people of no faith at all who want to explore the message behind the media.

The session will start at 5:30pm when we will watch the film on the big screem and discussion starts at 7:15pm.

There is no charge for this event and is open to all aged 15 or older.

FILM INFO
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Summary of the film taken from the Damaris study guide @ http://www.damaris.org/content/content.php?type=1&id=348:

"The Squid and the Whale (named after a museum exhibit that scared one of the characters as a child) is a story set in the 1980s about a family that splits apart. Bernard (Jeff Bridges), a once-successful novelist and now a teacher, has become jealous of his wife Joan’s growing success as a writer. Joan (Laura Linney) has been having affairs and the marriage is dissolving. They decide to separate and to have joint custody of their two sons Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and Frank (Owen Cline). The boys are deeply affected by the situation and soon end up on opposite sides of their parents’ conflict. Walt believes his mother is responsible for the separation and stays with his father, living by his father’s opinions and ideas and repeating them to other people as his own thoughts. He also begins dating his school friend Sophie (Halley Feiffer), but finds himself attracted to the older Lili (Anna Pacquin), one of his father’s students who is living with them. Frank stays with his mother, who has begun dating his tennis coach Ivan (William Baldwin), and acts in disturbing ways at his school. The film explores how each of the family copes with the separation and how it continually affects them."

Previous Sessions
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This series continues to be popular. Previous evenings have looked at "The Bourne Supremacy" (film), "Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling" (book), "Into The Wild" (film), "Atonement" (film), "Iron Man" (film), "The Lives of Others" (film), "Pan's Labyrinth" (film), "Utopian Dreams" (book), "Breaking and Entering" (film), "Little Miss Sunshine" (film), "Evan Almighty" (film), "Babel" (film), "The Zahir" (book), "Paradise Now" (film), "Life on Mars" (TV series), "Collateral" (film), "Arthur and George" (book), "Moulin Rouge" (film), the Robbie Williams album "Intensive Care", "Lost in Translation" (film), "Whale Rider" (film), "The Incredibles" (film), "The Da Vinci Code" (book), the U2 album "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" and "Chocolat" (film).