Comments on: Forests Top 10 Movie Quotes

By: Ben Toh

Ben Toh — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 14:19:46 +0000

A few days ago I watched The Talented Mr. Ripley on Netflix with Matt Damon as the protagonist. It was a dark and gloomy movie with an interesting catchphrase:

“I’d rather live as a fake somebody than as a real nobody.”

I thought that was interesting and perhaps a great temptation for many.

By: BrianK

BrianK — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 13:12:24 +0000

Thanks for sharing these, Forests. Movies have been an instrumental part of my recovery from the undue religious influence the ubf system imposed on my life and on my families’ life.

#4 is not a movie I’ve seen, but I REALY LOVE that scene and quote you point out!

#8 is surely my favorite, being a “Star Wars kid” from the 1970’s :)

Two very very helpful movies for my recovery were The Truman Show and The Village. Both tell a fantastic tale about how the disconnect between fantasy and reality requires extreme effort to maintain, and how that disconnect is not sustainable unless there are willing enablers and intentional effort by the leaders.

Both movies showed me why ubf leaders have to work so hard– they are always trying to keep the “Village” in order and in awe, and are always trying to hide the real world from “Truman”. This requires massive re-orientation continually.

By: BrianK

BrianK — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:41:26 +0000

By: Ben Toh

Ben Toh — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:03:53 +0000

Great life lessons from those movie quotes! Other than Han Solo’s “I know” I do not remember or did not see the rest. You must have some sort of photographic or visual/audio graphic memory!

My favorite simplistic a_ _ holey quote of all time, which I have been sharing for over 3 decades is: http://www.ubfriends.org/2012/11/23/go-ahead-make-my-day/

Since that is so unspiritual, unChristianly, ungentle, provocatively blunt, brutal, confrontational and unChrist-like, it does bug me from time to time…but probably not too much.

At best I’ve said countless times that I would like to be a Christian version of Dirty Harry. My recent sermon on being as bold as a lion (and as gentle as a lamb) is my attempt to Christianize my Dirty Harry inclination: http://westloop-church.org/index.php/messages/old-testament/88-proverbs/376-b-is-for-boldness