Dark

This is an old post.  I wrote it at the beginning of August after seeing this movie but I guess I was too afraid to post it.  Didn't want to stir the pot.  After re-reading it I'm glad I saved it for some other time, like today, when I wouldn't have the time or desire to write something.  I warn you I may or may not get on a spiritual soap box here.  Just a warning.  Read on if you wish.

Went to see "The Dark Knight" last night and it has thrown me into a spiritual assessment. Curious, no? By pure movie standards, it was a good film. I can't really say that it was a bad movie, at least not in the sense that I normally would use that term, as in the acting, writing, cinematography was bad. Those were all excellent. But it was a *bad* movie. I know a lot of you have seen it and I know that a lot of you enjoyed it, but I didn't, even though I sat through the whole thing. About an hour and a half into it I felt battered, exhausted, fully assaulted by the amount of violence and darkness that never stopped. I spent most of the movie with my hand covering my gaping mouth or partially covering my eyes because it was just. too. much. (I can't imagine what the seven year old two rows in front of us was going through. Can someone PLEASE explain to me why parents are so irresponsible?!?!! I don't GET IT.)

The whole experience has made me take another look at my ongoing spiritual assessment. Why do I let things like this in my life when it is so OBVIOUSLY not in line with what I believe in my heart and doesn't help me in any way achieve that level of spirituality I so desperately want to achieve? Why is it so hard to walk out of a movie that, however entertaining, is clearly not appropriate? Why do I, season after season, tune in to watch my favorite TV shows that should really have no place in my home and that do not invite the Spirit that I want so desperately to dwell here?

And why don't we, as members of the LDS Church, live up to those standards we profess and those covenants we have made? I had the thought, as we were driving home from the movie, that if we had any plans to go to the temple any time soon (which we don't) I'd have to put them off because after watching what I had just seen, I didn't feel worthy to enter that sacred place at all.

Hm... and it appears I didn't finish it either.