Date Posted:00:09:37 02/01/05 Tue Author: Joe Subject: Re: Ella Enchanted In reply to:
Caitlin
's message, "Ella Enchanted" on 21:10:49 01/28/05 Fri
>I watched Ella enchanted with my son tonight. It was
>so weird. I teach my son that he needs to obey me
>because that's what God says. I do believe we need to
>obey God, but we shouldn't obey what everyone says to
>us. It made me think. It was a fairy tale, but Ella
>had to obey whatever anyone told her because her fairy
>god-mother gave her the gift of obedience. It was
>funny but it made me think about my own life and
>wonder about stuff-including ubf where I was supposed
>to obey and not really think.
That was a decent movie. Not much of a "guy movie," I only watched it because my wife borrowed it (honest). The "gift of obedience" becomes a curse because people will try to use your "gift" to accomplish their immoral and unethical ends. The part of the movie where Ella's sister dictates to Ella exactly what she wants her to say on stage gave me a flashback to many UBF meetings in which Sam Lee would interrupt a sogam, "message" or announcements to dictate to the speaker the exact words that Lee wanted the speaker to say.
