Originally posted by willRules
I have watched the Truman show and it is fantastic. The amount of detail gone into that movie is incredible. There are some loose themes relating to fee will and our roles in life but nothing closely attributed to one faith. It's sorta left open. Great movie though, I highly recommend it ✅
Yeah ive seen the Truman Show, good film.
Spirituality is a good device to use as part of a character. Given how the tendency in society is to put "good" value into people who are faithful, a crisis of faith in a character can be a very metaphorically powerful situation.
However, as most people said, this hardly constitutes a religious comic. While it may dictate WHO buys the comic (Christians will probably buy comics about Christians, though I wont argue this further), it still remains true to the rest of the genre because the crisis of faith is still the same TYPE of conflict that heroes go through (switched from man v man to man v self). This is why it works. People can relate any type of conflict to feelings they have themselves, and in this instance, it doesn't matter if the "villain" is Magneto, Atheism, or Capitalism, people will still be able to identify with the struggle.
When something focuses on religion and its doctrine specifically as the motivation for a comic, it becomes very unidentifiable to those who it is not immediately speaking to. A book thats focal point is abstract moral issues, presented in a very "black" and "white" sort of way, doesn't intrigue the reader as much. When the lines are so clearly drawn, it is impossible to relate to the characters, because nobody sees the world as a series of either 100% good or 100% evil acts (especially when referring to the actions they perform themselves). When the conflict of the story is "good" vs "evil" and not "man" vs "something" it also becomes less interesting to the reader. Again, it removes the ability of the reader to identify with the character, simply because in a religious representation of "good" and "evil" people are simply a means to the end of committing one of these acts, in a well written story (and a moral society i may add) people are themselves the end, and the story is read to see what happens to the individual, not to see if "good" will ultimately triumph over "evil".
Originally posted by inamilist
Spirituality is a good device to use as part of a character. Given how the tendency in society is to put "good" value into people who are faithful, a crisis of faith in a character can be a very metaphorically powerful situation.However, as most people said, this hardly constitutes a religious comic. While it may dictate WHO buys the comic (Christians will probably buy comics about Christians, though I wont argue this further), it still remains true to the rest of the genre because the crisis of faith is still the same TYPE of conflict that heroes go through (switched from man v man to man v self). This is why it works. People can relate any type of conflict to feelings they have themselves, and in this instance, it doesn't matter if the "villain" is Magneto, Atheism, or Capitalism, people will still be able to identify with the struggle.
When something focuses on religion and its doctrine specifically as the motivation for a comic, it becomes very unidentifiable to those who it is not immediately speaking to. A book thats focal point is abstract moral issues, presented in a very "black" and "white" sort of way, doesn't intrigue the reader as much. When the lines are so clearly drawn, it is impossible to relate to the characters, because nobody sees the world as a series of either 100% good or 100% evil acts (especially when referring to the actions they perform themselves). When the conflict of the story is "good" vs "evil" and not "man" vs "something" it also becomes less interesting to the reader. Again, it removes the ability of the reader to identify with the character, simply because in a religious representation of "good" and "evil" people are simply a means to the end of committing one of these acts, in a well written story (and a moral society i may add) people are themselves the end, and the story is read to see what happens to the individual, not to see if "good" will ultimately triumph over "evil".
Smacked it man.