Introduction

As an example of evaluating a film with consideration of its worldview I will be looking at Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948).  This movie reminded me the lesson that bad ideas can make people into monsters.  In what follows we will look at a summary of the story of the film, make the point that this movie is about philosophy, cover the philosophy that drives the villains follow by a discussion of the dilemma that such a philosophy poses for the characters and the audience before a quick summary of what we can learn.  Readers must also be warned that there that this essay will have many spoilers.

The Story

In an essay by Helen Cox and David Neumeyer, this is how they summarized the movie:

Brandon and Philip share a New York apartment. They have distorted the rather Nietszchean ideas of their former headmaster Rupert and decide to strangle…

Ever wonder why postmodernism has spread so quickly?  Well wonder no more.  It has been taught by the public school system for the last 20 years.  That’s right, your lovely tax payer funded school system teaches postmodernism.  To sum up what postmodernism is I’ll just say that it rejects the notion of objective truth in favor of a personal perception of what is true for each individual.  How ludicrous is that?  I mean… Really?  Here is an example, “Kid’s playing a game and nobody looses because they are all winners.”  More importantly God becomes whatever the individual decides.  This is called idolatry.  When you fashion a god that is more to your liking, when you don’t accept the reality of the sovereign God of the Bible it is called idolatry!  So they teach the kids in a circuitous manner all about subjective truth and this my friends finds it’s way…

The Biggest Question