I saw the movie yesterday and I did cry when Aslan was killed, and especially when the girls were holding vigil over his body (I forgot how closely the details of the gospel are paralleled throughout the whole death-and-resurrection part of the story). I didn’t feel as though Aslan was minimized.

I did cry a heck of a lot more in the first few minutes of the movie, though, when the childrens’ mother was sending them away and particularly during the scene at the train station when they pan out to show all the other parents who are also evacuating their children. I BAWLED during that bit.

While I didn’t necessarily cry, Meggan and I both liked the movie. It was a great children’s movie (after all, that is who Lewis was writing the books for), that Disney managed to not destroy. I thought it was neat to have so many passages of Scripture running through my brain because of the characters’ lines. No soul? I guess I don’t know what that means…

I liked it pretty alright, but, she’s right, it didn’t strike any emotional nerves for me either. But then I’ve never really found the series that engrossing, to tell the truth.

That was me.

My husband adds that I have no emotions.

THIS IS ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop lying!

Sarah I laughed at your pregnant woman comment really hard after a 3 second pause to figure it out.

Compared to the last 25 minutes of Syriana, CON is chock full brimming over with soul.

Oddly, I think we saw the last 25 minutes of Syriana.

This is when I cried MOST: Susan and Lucy turn away from the dead lion on the stone table. They walk a bit. CRACK! They turn around. The lion is gone. Quiet. Little child #1 behind me whispers: “… Where has he gone?” Little child #2 behind me whispers, urgently: “Have they taken him away?!”

Pre-evangelism. Oh, suffer the little children …

I think the points that Amy was making and the parallels with much of today’s church were well-made.

That said, I also cried during the opening bombing/goodbye sequence.

And I wish they had chosen someone with a more majestic voice for Aslan.