Films That Suggest There Is No God

[ChampakDas]

[left]“My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Jesus is quoted as saying while up on the cross. So, if a dude as well connected as the Son of God can wonder about his dad’s neglect, imagine how the rest of us feel?[/left]
The topic has been addressed more than a few times in our recent cultural history, not the least of which by film directors desperately trying to either prove the existence of God or do away with Him once and for all.
Curiously, there are precious few films that deal head-on with atheism (excepting noted non-believer Bill Maher’s recent documentary film Religulous), but there’s certainly no lack of films that, we shall say, are highly suggestive that this whole religion thing might just be in our heads.
[b] [b]The Seventh Seal[/b][/b]

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[b]Gist: [/b]Set during the era of the Black Plague, a single knight recently returned from a Crusade, duels the Grim Reaper in a game of chess for his life, as they discuss the existence of God.
[b]Supposed Godlessness:[/b] Director Ingmar Bergman, whose longing for God in his films is rarely enacted, chooses to include Death as a character, but if the Grim Reaper knows anything about God, he’s keeping his skeletal mouth shut. Plus, the film is filled with lines such as “Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.”
[b]Counter Argument:[/b] Well, we suppose if we’re going to agree that Death can actually appear (and know how to play chess), isn’t anything possible?
[b]Conclusion:[/b] If God is out there, He/She isn’t telling.
[b] [b]No Country For Old Men[/b][/b]

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[b]Gist: [/b]A hunter who scoops up a ton of cash from the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong is pursued by the authorities and a psychopathic hitman with a creepy bowl haircut.
[b]Supposed Godlessness:[/b] In the hard-crusted prairies of rural Texas, man makes his violent and bitter choices and no God is there to help him when things go south. Events, bad and good, are completely random, and no sense can be made from any of it.
[b]Counter Argument: [/b]The conscience of the film is represented by an aging and weary sheriff played by Tommy Lee Jones. He is a god-fearing man, it would seem, but that still seems to give him little consolation at the misery and violence all around him. Says the sheriff near the end: “I always thought when I got older God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.”
[b]Conclusion: [/b]At best, God is indifferent to the violent and miserable world he has created.
[b] Halloween[/b]

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[b]Gist: [/b]On Halloween night in a small Midwestern suburb, Michael Myers, a nightmarish demon-spawn in a hockey mask goes on a killing spree of young teens in the area.
[b]Supposed Godlessness:[/b] No matter what happens to Michael Myers — including being shot at point blank range several times over — he continues to live in order to kill some more. He is unstoppable evil…
[b]Counter Argument:[/b] …but try as he might, he can’t seem to kill our young heroine, played by Jamie Lee Curtis. Curtis’ character is brainy and ingenious and she continually thwarts Michael Myers’s many attempts to stab her with a giant butcher knife. Notably, the beginning of the film she is also the character least beset with regular teen vices (booze, sex, rock ‘n’ roll), suggesting a pious life might afford you a chance in this brutal world.
[b]Conclusion: [/b]Inconclusive, however, it’s noteworthy that the film ends with Michael Myers having vanished but his looming evilness seemingly lurking everywhere in the town, with its blowing autumn leaves and deserted front yards.
[b] Das Boot[/b]

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[b]Gist: [/b]A group of young German soldiers in WW II man a submarine and attempt to disrupt Allie supply lines before making their way safely back home.
[b]Supposed Godlessness:[/b] The soldiers, lead by a grizzled veteran commander, encounter incredibly daunting obstacles and damages en route to their return. SPOILER ALERT! Against all odds, they make it back to safe harbor, but literally as they are returning to a hero’s welcome, a squadron of Allied planes bomb the hell out of them and the cheering crowd, leaving many of the just-saved crew dead and bleeding.
[b]Counter Argument: [/b]Technically, these are Nazis we’re talking about (though filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen takes pains to show the sailors having little or no belief in “Der Fuhrer”), so them getting bombed at the end should be a good thing. Only it isn’t, because we’ve just spent about four hours getting to know them as individuals and not some nameless, savage enemy.
[b]Conclusion:[/b] Hard to call this one, though from a German perspective, you could make the argument, as many have before, that if there is a God, he has a wicked sense of humor.
[b] The Exterminating Angel[/b]

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[b]Gist:[/b] A group of guests at a fancy dinner party suddenly find themselves unable to leave the drawing room where they have congregated. Chaos slowly ensues.
[b]Supposed Godlessness:[/b] A dinner party filled with well-to-do blue bloods dissolves into a Lord of the Flies frenzy when the guests find themselves inexplicably trapped in place for several days in director Luis Buñuel’s nightmarish vision. The rules of society — even high society — give way to man’s natural inclination: savagery and horror. There is no higher power, only our ruthless elemental nature.
[b]Counter Argument: [/b]The end of the film, which features a group of sheep entering a church while riotous gunfire and anarchy reigns outside, could be suggestive of, er, the sweetly innocent church followers being protected by their faith?
[b]Conclusion:[/b] This one appears to be pretty cut and dry: Man is a savage and religion, like society, is nothing but an illusion designed to trick us into submission.
[b] Funny Games[/b]

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[b]Gist: [/b]A young family on vacation fall pray to a home invasion by a couple of young, merciless thugs.
[b]Supposed Godlessness: [/b]Michael Haneke’s film was actually meant as an indictment of Americans’ thirst for blood and violence on the screen, but, with its utterly callous young antagonists and thorough disregard for justice or redemption, it can also be interpreted as an indictment of a thoroughly godless world (which is another of Haneke’s frequent themes).
[b]Counter Argument: [/b]Because Haneke chooses to break the 4th wall on occasion, and the film is far more clinical than debilitating, it comes across as an angry essay against violence porn, not so much a gripping, realistic drama. God might not factor in the film simply because Haneke wanted everything focused on his main premise.
[b]Conclusion: [/b]Too polemic to be read with multiple layers, the film achieves its main goal, but leaves little room for other thematic possibilities.
[b] Irreversible[/b]

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[b]Gist: [/b]A tragic and harrowing night with a young couple attending a party is seen in reverse order of chronology.
[b]Supposed Godlessness:[/b] Welcome to the uncompromisingly vicious and cruel nighttime world of director Gaspar Noé. This film contains one of single most unwatchable scenes of the last decade — the brutal rape and beating of a young woman in a train underpass — with an absolutely unflinching style that makes the episode even more disturbing. Because each scene is in reverse chronology, the entire thing — including the revenge taken by the woman’s boyfriend — feels intractable and obligatory. There’s no room for faith.
Counter Argument: Since the film is so obviously an exercise in manipulation — from its chronology shtick to its scenes of ultraviolence — it can be said to have little else to say of any particular merit.
[b]Conclusion:[/b] Another of the if-there-were-a-God-how-could-He-allow-this? kind of films, but any further meditation on the nature of our religious beliefs is pretty much blown out of the water by the shocking nature of the material.
[b] Crimes & Misdemeanors[/b]

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[b]Gist: [/b]A married man has to contend with a spurned mistress, who threatens to destroy his life.
[b]Supposed Godlessness: [/b]Like his cinematic idol, Bergman, Woody Allen likes to explore the philosophy of faith on occasion, but never more effectively than in this film, which offers a well-proportioned argument as to our Godless nature. Simply put, there is no cosmic (or karmic) justice in the world, ergo, there can be no one watching over us and making things right.
[b]Counter Argument: [/b]Allen’s film neatly offers its own counterproposal to its thesis; the second major plot thread involves Allen himself as a documentary director who attempts unsuccessfully to woo the assistant of a pompous man he’s been forced to make a film about. Near the end, these two main protagonists meet and share a discussion about the nature of crime and guilt. Not surprisingly, they share completely different world views about their fate.
[b]Conclusion: [/b]Allen is smart enough to play this one right down the middle. We might believe one thing or another, but no one knows for sure if your actions are being judged by a higher power.
[b] Se7en[/b]

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[b]Gist: [/b]A spree of extremely exacting serial murders leads the detectives trying to track down the killer deeply embroiled in the perp’s plans.
[b]Supposed Godlessness: [/b]There is a Yiddish proverb that roughly translates to ‘man plans; God laughs,’ suggesting that the more a man tries to take control of his life, the more disarray and chaos he will find, courtesy of a God whose master plan doesn’t take into account your every need. What, then, to make of a killer so precise and meticulous that he successfully completes the most daring and audacious series of murders in human history?
[b]Counter Argument:[/b] Well, as always, we have the dulcet vocal stylings of Morgan Freeman to inform us of a different philosophy. “The world is a fine place. And worth fighting for,” he quotes Hemingway at the end. What else do we have to go on but this small shred of hope?
Conclusion: In the absence of God, there is cruel mathematical precision.
[b] A Clockwork Orange[/b]

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[b]Gist: [/b]In the near-future, a young, sadistic leader of a youth gang is captured and experimented upon in order to curb his ultraviolent tendencies.
[b]Supposed Godlessness:[/b] Listen closely, my droogs — If, as Kubrick suggests at the end, such violent and vicious impulses can’t be bred out of us, either by science or the better part of human nature, than what point is there to a religion that attempts to curb these appetites via faith?
[b]Counter Argument:[/b] Um….well, not everyone in the film shares Alex’s propensity for brutality. Plus, he really, really loves Beethoven, which could either be a piece of poignant irony (likely), or possibly a sign that even in his lizard brain there resides an appreciation of art and beauty.
[b]Conclusion:[/b] If man is truly a spiteful and malicious beast, what good does a holy scripture and/or an iconic figure of reverence accomplish?

[Chakram12]

Dasu..aa title chusi anukuna..ee thadu nuvu vesavani..etla vunda

[pikki]

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[Chakram12]

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[/quote]pikki eta vunda...kanipinchatledhu ee madya...

[ChampakDas]

update chesa chudu...but I am strictly against it...bagane unna devudni naminavadini kada...nuvu getla unnav
[quote name='Chakram12' timestamp='1347166816' post='1302450166']
Dasu..aa title chusi anukuna..ee thadu nuvu vesavani..etla vunda
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updated title it will answer now
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[nenesuperni]

ila kadhu gani vitilo nuvu chusi bagunayi chepu

[ManOnFire]

terrific

[jbourne]

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[budankay_balaraju]

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[rapchik]

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[chittimallu4]

Antha chadavalenu just movie titles type chei mama

[ChampakDas]

nenu ani chusa..naku ani nachayi
[quote name='nenesuperni' timestamp='1347169223' post='1302450406']
ila kadhu gani vitilo nuvu chusi bagunayi chepu
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[ChampakDas]

every image pina bold tho oka text untundhi adhey cinema peru
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Antha chadavalenu just movie titles type chei mama
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[jbourne]

Irreversible chusava aa pic Bagundii [img]http://i56.tinypic.com/2w2r5gm.jpg[/img]

[ChampakDas]

nenu bellucci ki gadam ina fan ni
[quote name='jbourne' timestamp='1347208689' post='1302451257']
Irreversible chusava aa pic Bagundii [img]http://i56.tinypic.com/2w2r5gm.jpg[/img]
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