Hero's Journey in Movies: Recent Episodes
Think Spiritual Podcasts
Be your own Hero! In this series, Think Spiritual Podcasts looks at modern movies and TV shows through the lens of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey and explains their (plausible) mythological meaning and how it applies directly to your life.
Today on Think Spiritual Podcasts I am out to prove that Nancy Adams (Blake Lively) is a more complete Hero than Carol Danvers AKA Captain Marvel (Brie Larson).
Honestly, I expected that The Shallows was going to be a terrible movie and, thankfully, I turned out to be wrong.
I enjoy watching YouTube movie reviews from such content creators as Nostalgia Critic, Brad Jones, Say Goodnight Kevin and Cinemassacre. There was a time, quite a while ago now, when I thought I might try my hand at reviewing movies: I wanted to talk about movies that I love and everyone else hates.
Apparently I now have become a movie reviewer of a sort, but my take on films is much more about what I call their spiritual content and I examine this from an emotional perspective...as I’m sure you’ve noticed if you’ve listened to or watched any previous episodes of Think Spiritual.
So, let’s combine these two approaches today and examine the spiritual elements of a movie that I love and almost everybody hates: Lady in the Water.
Some consider Gravity to be a great thrill-ride of a movie. Some consider it terrible due to its "scientific inaccuracies". Today I'm going to prove to you that it's really all about walking the path to spiritual enlightenment.