The Culture Club (Film: Vantage Point) November 22, 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 screen and the discussion starts at 7:15pm.

There is no charge for this event and is open to all aged 12 or over unless accompanied by an adult.

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Opening paragraph taken from the Damaris article @ http://www.damaris.org/content/content.php?type=5&id=669

"Salamanca, Spain. A summit of world leaders is about to begin, and the President of the United States (John Hurt) is due to make a ground-breaking speech. The media coverage is being provided by an American channel, and director Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver) is trying to ensure that the anti-US protests don’t distract from the historic moment and that her reporters stay on-message. In a hotel room, a man bearing the scars of a bullet wound finishes dressing and picks up his gun. He is clearly on edge as he meets with similarly dark-suited colleagues. For a few moments we don’t know if he is friend or foe, but we soon discover that he is Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) a Secret Service agent returning to active service after a year. Yet questions remain: Why has he been off work? Why do his colleagues seem unsure whether they can really trust him? We quickly meet some of the other characters, often with similar uncertainty about what kind of people they may be. When the President is shot moments after arriving on the podium, there is chaos and, like the Secret Service agents, we have very little idea who is responsible. Now almost everybody is under suspicion."

Previous Sessions
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This series continues to be popular. Previous evenings have looked at "Slam" (book), "Black Gold" (fim), "Heima" (Sigur Rós) (film/music), "The Squid and the Whale" (film), "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).