How would you like to go to a FREE dinner and have a popular movie after? That's what Unity "Dinner And A Movie" series brings--once a month!
We vary movie audience content. One month it is an "adult" movie - the next month it's for the kiddies (and the child in all of us LOVES that!)
In November we will have a "pancake" supper. (Apple pancakes with Apple Cider sauce!) After we've eaten, then we go into our "Harvest Room" to see the movie of that month. There can be discussion after--or not. Lots of fun for EVERYONE!
The November 15th film offering is the Disney animated film "Moana" and (for adults and truth students) follows the Joseph Campbell book "A Hero's Journey" and "The Hero With A Thousand Faces." For kids--this is the basic synopsis:
A ROADMAP FOR LIFE
But this mythological motif is more than just a plot device. There's an argument to be made that the hero's journey is germane to the human experience. Though the giants in the field who preceded Joseph Campbell studied myth to understand other cultures and add to human knowledge, he was one of the first to grasp that mythology has relevance in the real world.
Campbell acknowledges the influence of his predecessors, but goes beyond them in asserting the motif of the hero’s journey can be understood metaphorically as a model for the living of life, which itself is a series of initiations. Campbell’s understanding of this aspect of the hero quest thus reflects what he terms the psychological (or pedagogical) function of mythology: “to carry the individual through the stages of one’s life.”
This is what Joyce called the monomyth: an archetypal story that springs from the collective unconscious. Its motifs can appear not only in myth and literature, but, if you are sensitive to it, in the working out of the plot of your own life. The basic story of the hero journey involves giving up where you are, going into the realm of adventure, coming to some kind of symbolically rendered realization, and then returning to the field of normal life. And you see this in the movie "Moana."
Now...more about the FEMALE hero portrayed in "Moana"...All of the great mythologies and much of the mythic story-telling of the world are from the male point of view. When Campbell was writing The Hero with a Thousand Faces and wanted to bring female heroes in, he discovered that had to go to the fairy tales. These were told by women to children, you know, and you get a different perspective.
Disney picked up on this perspective in this beautifully illustrated adventure/tale of "Moana."
Come and join us in having a very wonderful experience--a fantastic dinner with friends and then the ability to see a great movie with them....for FREE! (How often do you have THAT experience?)
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