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1. The Search for Meaning & ValuesMs O’Reilly.
2. Learning outcomeLearning outcomes: This lesson will look at the great questions explored in film and examine a film that addresses the search for meaning.
3. Think/Pair/ShareWhat is your favourite film? Why? What meaningful question/s does your favourite film deal with? Can you name any other films that deal with the great questions of life?
4. For hundreds of years music and literature have been used as a means of exploring the great questions of life. The emergence of film in the latter part of the nineteenth century has enabled society to investigate various questions on a universal scale.
5. Movies and books can help inspire us to get thinking about and asking the big questions in life, like, what does it mean to be human and what is my relationship to the divine.
6. The topic of searching and the big questions in life are addressed in many films. Some examples:Is there an afterlife?What is the purpose of life?What is the meaning of good and evil?Think/Pair/ShareWhat other questions can we add to this list? Use the post-it provided and stick your answer onto the whiteboard.
7. Certain genres of film have been inclined to focus on different questions:Horrors tend to question the presence of an afterlife (The Woman in Black);Westerns focus on the topic of moral and immoral behaviour (True Grit);Romantic dramas tend to look at the themes of love and fate (The Notebook).In recent times, modern versions of the superhero blockbusters (James Bond, Captain America, The Hunger Games, Divergent, Harry Potter, Star Wars) feature protagonists who challenge the stereotypical notion of hero. Movies can challenge our understanding of morality, our notion of love and our sense of the self.
8. How can films show religious or spiritual themes? How can films affect us personally?Think-Pair-Share:ON YOUR OWN - can you think of a film that you really like? Why do you like it so much? How did it affect you? Does it say something important about life? Turn to your PARTNER-tell each other about your chosen films.
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10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWOpQXTltAWhy do the other prisoners consider the first prisoner to have been ruined by venturing outside?Why would the other prisoners resist being freed after seeing the first prisoner return?
11. Yann Martel – The Life of Pi
12. The Life of PiPi, the protagonist, speaks about viewing three hills. What was distinctive about these three hills was that upon each hill ‘stood a Godhouse.’ one Muslim, one Hindu and one Christian. Pi was raised Hindu, but not in an orthodox fashion and practiced vegetarianism. After encountering these three Godhouses he investigated Christianity and Islam in turn and decides to become an adherent of all three religions. He tries to understand God through the lens of each religion and comes to recognise benefits in each one.
13. The Life of PiAn issue with practicing three different religions becomes apparent when the leaders from each religion find out he is practicing more than one tradition. They each argue that their tradition is the correct and true one. The only thing they agreed on was that you can only practice one religion. When put against the wall for a choice or explanation Pi states, quoting Ghandi that he “just wants to love God.” Grudgingly the three leaders let the issue lie.
14. The Life of PiWhilst you are watching this film there is a worksheet you need to be completing. Some of this is questions relating to events in the film, some will be relating to themes within the film. We will be stopping the film regularly to check your progress. If tasks are not completed, we will not put it back on until they are!
15. His Holiness the Dalai LamaInterview: “Is there only one true religion?”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQrUWmzshsI
16. The Dalai LamaWhen asked the question on how to understand truth in different world religions he answered by using a medical analogy; ‘Like medicine, according to different illnesses you need different medicines. You cannot say, no matter what illness, this medicine is best, that this is the only medicine.’People are complex, many of us search for a greater truth but the path we take to finding that truth differs greatly from person to person. What works for each person is what is important. No one-way or tradition is superior to another. It is about what is effective for the individual. In the ‘Life of Pi’ the protagonist adopts a multi faith approach but the goal remains the same, to worship and love God.
17. To conclude…You need to complete a short review of, “Life of Pi”.You need to write NO MORE than five sentences.We are not reviewing if the film is any good or not, but whether it touches on RELIGIOUS or SPIRITUAL themes. In your opinion how does it do this?