Not a Tame Lion

"One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion."

I recently bought The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. It is quickly becoming my favorite movie. I read the books regularly. You can get something out of the books each time you read them. I'm finding out even through the few times I've seen the movie that seeing differnt things each time holds true with the movie also. The movie is extremely close to the book. Yet from my point of view they are extremely different. Many of the symbolisms are the same, but some of the dialogue has changed. You can see one thing in the way the dialogue is in the book, and something else in other places in the movie. I find different symbolisms in the book then in the movie. Then when I see the movie I find things I didn't see in the book. Some of the symbolisms I see in both the book and the movie. I don't know if C. S. Lewis meant them to be there (in the case of the movie either Andrew Adamson or people who worked on the script).

I recommend that if you have not seen it yet that you do. It is a great movie in both that it sticks to the story line as written in the book, extraordinarily closely, and it is great as far as movies go. Everything from the beautiful locations, battle scenes, costuming, to the way Aslan was presented in both appearance and personality (for lack of a better word).

As was brought up in my theology class to day, truly Aslan (God) is not a tame lion. From the human perspective, the way God works is illogical. Of ways to save the world why send your only son to die, therefore cracking the stone table? Why save the world at all? Why make it appear that some of your prophets are just crazy men? Thankfully God does work in illogical ways, or mankind would be in a serious predicament.

Pax Domini