Evan Almighty , presented as the Following Bruce Almighty (Bruce Almighty with Jim Carrey) comes out next week in the United States. It includes Evan Baxter, a former television star presenter worked where Jim Carrey. This time Evan has the main role and gets a big promotion: he was elected to Congress and promised a glorious career! Only God (Morgan Freeman) disrupts these beautiful projects and ask Evan to build an ark in preparation for a new flood.
From the trailer this movie looks very funny and in the same vein as Bruce Almighty. However, while the first film brought a reflection on, among others, human hubris, the desire for power, this result seems to go in the opposite direction. As a true prophet, Evan will have to embark on a path of humility and confidence, the risk of rejection and misunderstanding, to enter his appeal and be an instrument of the salvation of mankind.
Included in this slapstick comedy a representation of God and humorous teacher. Both films Tom Shadyac (a practicing Catholic who has studied film at UCLA) bring together, in a humorous but not sarcastic, a good number of performances or stereotypes about the divine and its mode of action and expression.
It is interesting to note that today this kind of comedy is a good way to approach to the general public, advocacy, action and interaction of God with men. Besides the fact that comedy is a genre has success, the choice of a comic can perhaps be understood both as a way to re-enchant the world but also as a translation of a growing thirst for sacred well that it revisits the story of Noah's Ark as part of a comedy, the film actually deals with this story the greatest respect, thereby rediscover a wider audience cut founders of the great narratives of Judeo-Christianity and dissatisfied with the materialism that dominates our Western culture.
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