Father Albert

Begin!

Posted on July 16, 2012March 11, 2018 by Father Albert

The Dark Knight is about go rising and storming box offices with a grizzly bear voice and a belt full o gadgets - exciting, no? Well, before he makes his cinematic ascension, I wanna talk about where he's been and where he is. The Dark Knight is a long and complicated move, and I intend to tackle it in a single post, so I'll try to concisely deal with major points when I get to it. Nonetheless, it'll probably be a long post, so... Alas, this post is not that post (got enough to make a fence yet?). Instead I...Read More

Ar..gu..u..nt..ur… wha?

Posted on July 13, 2012February 27, 2018 by Father Albert

Greetings to the Digital Continent! I'm the Ephesian and this here is my blog: Lumen Est. In case you didn't know that's Latin for "it is light." I call it that because I read this letter by a guy named Paul - I think he's dead now - and that letter had a little section all about "living in the light" and such. Well, right there in the fifth chapter Paul said that everything exposed "by the light" becomes "is light" (visible), and I like things being visible. Apparently some sleeping people will rise from the dead a get a...Read More

The Ephesian was a resident of the digital continent who liked to analyze various works in the world of entertainment. Please see his first movie post, Begin! to get an idea of his methods and see it applied. He employed the terms "events" and "lens (or scope)" to talk about a particular work's message. An "event" is what is being portrayed and the "lens" is the cinematography, writing, music, chronology, and other aspects of the work which implicitly or explicitly tell the viewer/reader/listener how they are supposed to interpret that event. Basically, he tried to uncover what ideas the movie implied, suggested, or taught...Read More