Wildcat does justice to Flannery O'Connor's faith (w/ Joshua Hren) | Criteria: Catholic Film Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Joshua Hren, editor-in-chief of Wiseblood Books, joins the podcast to review Wildcat, the new Flannery O'Connor biopic directed by Ethan Hawke and starring Maya Hawke and Laura Linney.
The film is a respectful and nuanced portrayal of O'Connor, her faith, and her art, accomplished by extensive quotation from her prayer journal and letters, as well as several interludes depicting her short stories (which keeps the film from feeling like a formulaic biopic).
Wildcat's portrayal of the relationship between artistic ambition and faith is deeply relevant to Catholic artists. It should inspire them to find creative ways of dealing with the pressures that would subvert their God-given gifts, whether those pressures come from other Catholics, family, or the art world.
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Having bought yesterday the complete short stories and the two novels written by O'Connor (sorry to say that in the Spanish edition, although I'll try the English one too), I'm happy to find this podcast!
I'm guessing she moved the desk because she wasn't interested in her mother's idea of a "beautiful view." Too normy.
O'Connor was a writer. To accomplish what she wanted to do, she may have wanted to avoid distraction. Art demands discipline.
Loved the "too normy," comment.
I thought she shifted her orientation from wanting to be acknowledged by the world and instead wanted her work to exalt Him. I thought that her repurposed desk with all the layers and statuary (AND a crucifix) is a simulacrum of a high altar.
@@angelagilmartin2109 Wow, great catch! Otherwise I don't know why she would have piled everything like that.
Guy with the serious beard nailed it.
To the question whether one can faithfully represent the position of one whose beliefs differ from, are even antithetical, to one’s own, consider Robert Bolt - who realistically portrayed Thomas More in Man for All Seasons (both play and screenplay).
Robert Bolt, an agnostic, exalts a Catholic saint and martyr. Bolt was a former member of the British Communist Party and an agnostic.)
This is but Robert Bolt wasn't a religious believer, even though A Man for All Seasons exalts a Catholic saint and martyr. (In fact, Bolt was a former member of the British Communist Party and an agnostic.)
This is but one example it can be done.
However, I think this example can cut both ways, as Bolt himself said he was portraying More as a modern "hero of selfhood". The portrayal is admirable, but not primarily focused on More's specific religious motivations.
@@CatholicCulturePod Correct! Mostly a modernist take untrue to More's view of the world.