I am Officially Whelmed

After today's class, I can say I am officially whelmed. (10 points to anyone who gets the reference). But after some of the stuff we watched today, my mind was finally blown again. I've been relatively just entertained, amused, and bored in class lately, but today brought everything back up to speed.

The first few we watched, Cinema Paradiso, On the Water Front, and The Apostle, were all very interesting. I've never heard of, or seen any of them before. The imagery and use of the bell was pretty ingenious in Cinema Paradiso, it representing both his life in the clergy and his appeals in the movies. On the Water Front had a really awesome speech, different, but really cool. I can slightly relate to the Apostle - I've seen Pentecostal preachers before, they can be kinda scary, but I've also been to a black church before in the middle of Philadelphia on a missions trip. That was quite an experience and honestly really fun. My group was the minority in the room, people were giving us weird looks because we had no idea how the church worked, and it was loud and people were on their feet dancing around. At my home church, people just sit there and occasionally laugh, pretty different, but interesting none the less.

Then that last film, Tree of Life, just blew my mind. The imagery mixed with the voice over and the sound - holy crap is that some powerful stuff. It completely boggles my mind when I think of or see imagery portraying the heavens or creation in that sense. It's really hard to describe because we don't have the right Earthly words for it, but I'm in awe with that stuff and it just makes you feel transcended. Powerful, powerful stuff.

I can't even begin to describe this.

So I am now officially whelmed again in this class.