Pilgrim's Progress
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Brand: Gospel Communications
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); Mandarin Chinese (Original Language); Portuguese (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); Ukrainian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 35 minutes
Published: 2003
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Vision Video
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DVD Review: Book v. Film
Summary: 5 Stars
So, you know how the book is always better than the film? You know that look of disappointment which washes over a person's face when they ask if you've read something, and eagerly you say, "I've seen the movie"? Well, here's what you've been waiting for - a movie that's actually better than the book.
Now, I'm not basing this on the language gap. John Bunyan's work is, of course, a cultural leap from our own - no fault there. We make the same leap for Shakespeare, for Beowulf, and even for the King James version of the Bible. The problem is not linguistic. The problem is that John Bunyan is a true hellfire and brimstone man, and his work lacks any semblance of mercy. In his pages we are faced with the strict doom of judgement, the crack of the gavel, the waxing knell of wrongdoing which begins in our chests as a faint quiver of the gong, and rises to a deafening roar: "THOU HAST SINNED, FOR THOU ART SINNER."
Perhaps I'm biased against the Calvanist message of total depravity. Okay, I admit it; I am. I tend to believe in the inner worth of all things, and despite our shortcomings - yes, even despite our potential for atrocities - I believe that the only thing condemnation ever does is carve a one-way path to... well, not heaven. Only when we're aware of what's good can we hope to embody it ourselves. Only when we believe that we ourselves have every right to aspire to such a thing can it ever be done. Condemnation disempowers the very capacity for goodness which it warns us to possess.
On to the movie. Here we find the very same allegory - the thought-stirring images, the pathos and truth, the characters whom John Bunyan first envisioned - but we find them reborn. The movie buys back these elements from their tiresome original form, gives them strength and sets them free. It lifts the dense fog of shame, replacing it with legitimate warnings and the call to accountability. Through the remaining mists, we see the sun breaking in with a vision of beauty, sweeping one's heart into the longing for (and commitment to) that which watches and waits above. Am I exaggerating? Actually, I'm putting into words what this film meant to me as a child. I can't guarantee that you, dear reader, would feel the same. But I can guarantee that while I have no intention of reading John Bunyan's book again, my children will grow up watching the film.
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