Posted by Wild at ip328.net.voyager.co.nz on June 19, 2000 at 22:32:38:
I have just seen Dogma in my little hometown. It was a 10am session and there was only one other person in the theatre - a bloke, sitting by himself across empty seats. I couldn't see him, but we did whoop with laughter at the same time. We never saw each other's faces.
When I left the movie, I sat in that after-movie haze waiting for the traffic lights to turn green. I gazed out to sea, wondering why I had been ignoring the muse that's been tickling me for so long, when the horizon blazed with a flash of silver, like a fluoroscent tube of light had been switched on.
Not that I'm saying that I received a divine message, or anything, but Dogma sent me into another head space. It is one of the most thought-provoking movies I have ever seen. And I loved the humour, like the shit demon, the choice of prophets and even God and his/her hockey fetish. There were so many genuine flashes of brilliance, that it's hard to pinpoint them - the holy bartender, the blessed golf club, the sex with minutes to go promise, the sexually deviant Mooby board members, idolising a false God, testing the Nun's faith, Rufus falling from the sky and Alanis Morisette as God.
Kevin, you did it this time. I expect the Catholics of the world hate you. Q: Where did you get the idea for this movie from?
Q: What's next on your banned dinner-table conversation list - politics? Or will you venture even further into the meaning of life, and the universe?
Keep pushing the limits.
Cheers,
Wild