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====Three Minute Film Summary====
 
====Three Minute Film Summary====
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Christopher Robin is a film based on writer A. A. Milne's classic children stories, and the subsequent Disney cartoons about a young boy named Christopher Robin, his stuffed bear Winnie the Pooh (and Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Owl), and their adventures in the 100 Acre Wood. 
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This film begins in the 100 Acre Wood with Pooh, Piglet and company holding a going-away-party for young Christopher Robin, who is about to be sent away to boarding school.  It is a bittersweet parting, but we see the love they all have for each other, and Christopher Robin promises never to forget them, or the Hundred Acre Wood.
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As the opening credits continue, we are then taken through a montage of Christopher's young adulthood: as he goes to boarding school, as he loses his father and is told he must now be the "man of the house," as he studies hard in college, falls in love and marries, then leaves to fight in World War I, as his daughter is born and grows, and finally as he returns to England to become a responsible and hard working manager at a company that manufactures luggage.  In fact, the adult Christopher Robin becomes a little bit of a workaholic, stern and serious with his daughter, who is herself about to be sent away to boarding school and desperately yearns for her father's attention.
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And then one day, Christopher Robin's childhood friend, Winnie the Pooh, reappears, luring Christopher Robin back to his childhood home and back to the 100 Acre Wood, where he re-encounters, then rescues all of his childhood friends, in the process also rediscovering much about himself.  He then leaves the 100 Acre Wood to go rescue his company and the employees who work for him, whereupon Winnie the Pooh and friends (with help from Christopher's daughter Madeline) embark upon an expotishun to follow behind and rescue him! 
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I won't give away any spoilers about the ending, but as you can imagine (it is a Disney film) all are rescued in the end, including Christopher Robin's relationship with his family and his newly reunited stuffed animal friends.
  
 
====Adam in the Garden of Eden====
 
====Adam in the Garden of Eden====

Revision as of 14:54, 18 January 2019

Genesis 2:1-9

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. 2 And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation. 4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; 6 but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 Out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

1 Corinthians 15:45-49

45 Thus it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is[a] from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Faith and Film VII: Christopher Robin

Three Minute Film Summary

Christopher Robin is a film based on writer A. A. Milne's classic children stories, and the subsequent Disney cartoons about a young boy named Christopher Robin, his stuffed bear Winnie the Pooh (and Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Owl), and their adventures in the 100 Acre Wood.

This film begins in the 100 Acre Wood with Pooh, Piglet and company holding a going-away-party for young Christopher Robin, who is about to be sent away to boarding school. It is a bittersweet parting, but we see the love they all have for each other, and Christopher Robin promises never to forget them, or the Hundred Acre Wood.

As the opening credits continue, we are then taken through a montage of Christopher's young adulthood: as he goes to boarding school, as he loses his father and is told he must now be the "man of the house," as he studies hard in college, falls in love and marries, then leaves to fight in World War I, as his daughter is born and grows, and finally as he returns to England to become a responsible and hard working manager at a company that manufactures luggage. In fact, the adult Christopher Robin becomes a little bit of a workaholic, stern and serious with his daughter, who is herself about to be sent away to boarding school and desperately yearns for her father's attention.

And then one day, Christopher Robin's childhood friend, Winnie the Pooh, reappears, luring Christopher Robin back to his childhood home and back to the 100 Acre Wood, where he re-encounters, then rescues all of his childhood friends, in the process also rediscovering much about himself. He then leaves the 100 Acre Wood to go rescue his company and the employees who work for him, whereupon Winnie the Pooh and friends (with help from Christopher's daughter Madeline) embark upon an expotishun to follow behind and rescue him!

I won't give away any spoilers about the ending, but as you can imagine (it is a Disney film) all are rescued in the end, including Christopher Robin's relationship with his family and his newly reunited stuffed animal friends.

Adam in the Garden of Eden

Christ the New Adam

Something From Nothing