Watch these DVDs and ye shall be saved
This week’s WTF article comes courtesy of the Boston Globe. It’s a tale of how one woman’s spiritual and emotional confusion led her to the conclusion that Cinema Saves.
Perusing one such guru’s website, she stumbled onto what has become her gospel: the Spiritual Cinema Circle. For $21 a month, the circle rents subscribers films stressing human relationships and capabilities — Netflix for the soul, if you will.
The movies ”have been another blessing in my life,” says Escalera, who runs a language translator’s business helping business and government bodies. This month’s four selections included ”Butterfly Woman,” a Danish short about a journalist who had a mid-life epiphany about the emptiness of her high-powered career. Says Escalera, ”Exactly what happens in that movie happened to me.”
The organization is co-founded by one Steven Simon, whose strong sense of cinematic spirituality has brought us films like “What Dreams May Come†and… uh… “Smokey and the Bandit.†Also, the films available through the “circle†tend to be independent productions, feature-length documentaries, and short movies along with the some of the fringe Hollywood titles. I’m not signing up any time soon, but hey, different strokes for different folks I guess.