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Book of Eli on DVD: The Use and Abuse of Religion
The recent release of THE BOOK OF ELI (2010) on DVD provides an opportunity for a reassessment of important elements within its story. Viewers with religious convictions have interpreted the film in strongly positive and negative terms; however, another reading is plausible that avoids these extremes. Taking into account its late-modern-Western and post-9/11 context, THE BOOK OF ELI may be interpreted as a film that urges caution in the use of religion by both its practitioners and the irreligious – who variously objectify religion and justify violence in fundamentalist fashion while failing to heed the message of religion or recognize its power as a form of social control and a tool for oppression.
The Book of Eli (2010)
“In the time before…”
Back in January of 2010, a movie hit theaters and began with those rather clichéd words. And it feels to us as if we’re talking about an ancient allegory, too. We missed THE BOOK OF ELI when it initially hit theaters, but we’re catching up with it now. Well, at least we’re getting [...]
