Comments on: “The Way of a Man with a Maid:” Real Romance in WALL-E

By: WALL*E | Musings From a Catholic Bookstore

WALL*E | Musings From a Catholic Bookstore — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:37:19 +0000

[...] The Way of a Man and a Maid looks at true romance in the film [...]

By: vtanco

vtanco — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:24:21 +0000

And peace to you, Bruce. Did not so much misunderstand you as found deirdrew’s remarks a bit harsh.

By: Bruce Roeder

Bruce Roeder — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:41:45 +0000

Sorry about my misuderstood sarcastic remark, vtanco.

It’s a good reminder for me to be more charitable.

Peace.

By: mkochan

mkochan — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:30:44 +0000

Bruce was just sarcastically bouncing off what deirdrew said.

By: vtanco

vtanco — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:46:43 +0000

I loved this review, and I thought the other one was great, too. Loved the film, and so did my kids, 12, 16 and 20. Why does it matter the denomination of the reviewer? I’m perplexed about the negativity.

By: mkochan

mkochan — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:10:59 +0000

Dr. Newman’s approach is to use what we find in movies to open up discussions about the scriptures. The point is not merely to look at the films from the standpoint of their artistic merits, but to look at what kinds of conversations about biblical truths they could lead into. One of the things he encourages Christians to do, is to go to the movies with their unbelieving friends and relatives and take them to dinner afterwards for a conversation.

By this article he is demonstrating a number of points that could come up in that conversation, i.e. the story of Adam and Eve and God’s plan of marriage, the self-sacrifice that husbandly love entails when understood from a biblical perspective,that “love” understood correctly is not a mere feeling but an act of the will.

By: Bruce Roeder

Bruce Roeder — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:42:18 +0000

I would agree that the review only touches on the deep truths about the objective reality of life that can be found in the film. But I think the movie review is better than most of the ones I have read on this film. And I enjoyed the movie.

The biblical tie-ins are worth pointing out. The truth about how not only romantic love, but sacrificial love, and giving ourselves for our beloved is something which we all want is also worth pointing out. This truth, even in movies with quasi-pornographic parts like The Notebook and Titanic, is the turth that made them so popular. It seems to me that as Christians, we ought to see that as a sign of hope and point it out to the unbelieving world.

When Solomon wrote that “the way of a man with a maid” was one of the things he did not understand, I never got the impression he meant seduction.

Or, maybe the Bible is talking about how fascinating seduction is; maybe I just always missed it.

Maybe Dr. Newmann is a fink. After all, he’s not Catholic.

By: mkochan

mkochan — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:35:19 +0000

This is not the first review of this movie to appear here and every review doesn’t have to do everything. Both reviews have been very positive about the value of the movie and your criticism is unwarranted as there is nothing shallow about the approach this reviewer takes. His review complements the other one we had very well by bringing out another aspect of the story line of the movie.

For you to say that the author neglected to tell us if the movie teaches anything and then turn around and say that Terry Schiavo could have used such a husband is contradictory.

By: deirdrew

deirdrew — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:13:34 +0000

It would be better if this person didn’t use so much slang, putting it in ”quotes.” What about ”easy” men? Why do we never hear about that? Also, isn’t it possible that the main character could be looking for a connection with God?! We always see in movies a connection with another human, but the most important is our Creator.

The Notebook was a sappy book, with a semi-pornagraphic ending. Titanic had a pornagraphic middle.

Dr Newman is not a Catholic, is he?

“The way of a man with a maid.” Huh – says nothing about commitment. That’s about seduction. This is a very convuluted, strange movie review. Pope John Paull II would have had something to say about the different forms of love.

This sounds like a nice movie, but it would have been nicer for the author to tell us if it would be family friendly, and if it really teaches us more than just thinking someone else is ”cute.”

Certainly, it seems that Terri Schiavo could have used a husband with 1/10th the heart of Wall-E.