“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good. Time does not heal it. — C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

It’s one of those books that I’ve read before because my dad owns it, but I need to have my own copy for browsing and loaning.

The fact is that whatever’s out there in the supernatural is completely beyond our human ability to comprehend, and we’ll only truly understand it in the moment that we die.

But Lewis did some pretty careful thinking about the issues, and he’s presents a believable vision of Heaven and Hell that answers a lot of questions… How can a loving God send people to Hell?

So anyways, I saw Collateral today. By all indications, it should have been fantastic. Artistically, it was great. Cruise lays on the Fight-Club criminal cool, and guns blaze.

But maybe I missed something — it just seemed a little unresolved. Sure, ‘Vincent’ is probably a much more realistic representation of a hit-man than Martin Blank ever was, but I prefer the redemption and closure of Grosse Pointe Blanke. For all its message about the value of human life, ‘Collateral’ sure leaves an awful lot of innocents dead in its course.

Mike

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