Word: churches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everyone's against church-burning. Everyone's against someone being killed and dragged down a highway. Violence is the extreme in a spectrum," Orfield said...
They bothered you, those unanswerable questions that inevitable crossed your path at some point during your time at church school: "If God is so great, then why is there suffering in the world? If God loves you so much, then why do people go to Hell? As long as I believe, do I really need to learn all this stuff?" You didn't want to be there, and you didn't want an old stuffy adult telling you what to think and how to act. Already you had memorized the Ten Commandments--what more could you give them? You wanted...
...Bethany (Linda Fiorentino), an abortion clinic employee on the brink of a crisis of faith, who is unknowingly the great, great, great, etc. grand-niece of Jesus Christ. She is enlisted by a seraph named Metatron (a whiny Alan Rickman) to thwart two banished angels from getting to a church in New Jersey. These winged renegades, Loki (Matt Damon) and Bartelby (Ben Affleck), have found a loophole in Catholic doctrine which could cleanse them of their sins and allow them to re-enter heaven, negating the truth that God is infallible and consequently unmaking existence. These two Jersey-bound travelers...
...memorial service will be held for Marius in Memorial Church sometime during the next few months...
...Korine's own grandmother, Jorce). In terms of structure, that's about all there is, for donkey-boy is not a traditional narrative. Certainly, there's a sequence of events (albeit bizarre ones)--Julien kills a boy in the park, Julien befriends a blind ice-skater, Julien goes to church, etc.--but no particular story is told. Instead, the viewer is presented with a motley assemblage of images and fragments from Julien's daily life--some of them humorous, some of them tragic, all of them enigmatic. In the film, Korine wanted "to push the idea of reality and truth...