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	<title>All film talks on Pierced to the Heart	</title>

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		<title>An Unfinished Life (After viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/unfinished-life-after</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/unfinished-life-after#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After watching An Unfinished life, and seeing played out before me its multi-faceted exploration of blaming and forgiveness, I hope I am more senstive to my own hidden issues of blaming. Blaming so insidiously takes root in my heart that I can easily see it as merely calling out the truth. But I should define [...] (released: 2005) ]]></description>
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		<title>An Unfinished Life (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/unfinished-life-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/unfinished-life-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An Unfinished Life is rich with diversity of relational contexts and emotional perspectives. In its exploration of forgiveness and responsibility, one central conflict is echoed and reflected in multiple secondary conflicts, each developing and commenting on the other.

 There is a dominant and well-played metaphor that runs the length of the film, but beyond this [...] (released: 2005) ]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Best Picture Roundup (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/oscar-2010-best-picture-noms</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/oscar-2010-best-picture-noms#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1063</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[All ten of the 2010 Oscar Best Picture nominees are worth seeing, but for some, I recommend watching them only for specific reasons or under certain conditions. Three rise above the lot as particularly excellent films &#8212;An Education, Precious, and The Hurt Locker.

 All three have profound insights, strong emotional connection, rich questions, and top [...] ]]></description>
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		<title>A Serious Man (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/serious-man-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/serious-man-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1054</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Have you had those times when nothing in life seems to fit? Times that you want the formula for how things work so you can try to fix them? A Serious Man is about that. But there&#8217;s more: watching the film puts you in that position in relation to the film itself. It works. By [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Blind Side (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/blind-side-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/blind-side-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1049</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[As a true story, the strength of The Blind Side is that it could have been embellished oh so much, but it was not. I suspect that no film adaptation of a true story is ever 100% factual, and I expect that&#8217;s the case with The Blind Side. Whatever its actual degree of embellishment, there [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Up (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/up-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/up-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oscar nomination]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oscar nomination 2010]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1043</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Charming, fun, and rich, Up takes us on an eventful animated ride watching the late-in-life transformation of Carl Fredricksen. Although the questions explored by the film are not particularly deep, Up&#8217;s creative coup is that it&#8217;s story and dialog are intricate, nuanced, and entertaining enough to engage us as it reconnects us to the familiar.

 [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Inglourious Basterds (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/inglourious-basterds-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/inglourious-basterds-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1037</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[If you take pleasure in revenge and you choose to go on taking pleasure in it, Inglourious Basterds will give you plenty to feed your pleasure. I don&#8217;t want that to be me, yet there is truth in what the film portrays: War time aggressors, like the Nazis, should be stopped. But it stung me [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>District 9 (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/district-9-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/district-9-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1033</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[District&#160;9 finds a compassionate &#8212; and violent &#8212; angle from which to explore shallow and ugly prejudice. As it pits the supposed goodness and wisdom of &#8220;the authorities&#8221; against the supposed brainlessness and vulgarity of a suppressed race, it looks into the possibility that, for some, racism may be born more of naïveté than prideful [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Up in the Air (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/up-in-the-air-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/up-in-the-air-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1026</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[What if your job had you on the road 322 days a year&#8230;traveling alone? What if you spent most of those days firing people? Starting with this bleak relational backdrop, Up in the Air explores hope, stability, integrity, connection, and commitment. Will we find stability where we look for it? 

 What type of connection [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Hurt Locker (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/hurt-locker-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/hurt-locker-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1021</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Three quite different men; three different experiences of war. The Hurt Locker takes us inside a fictional Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team &#8212; a bomb squad &#8212; in Iraq. I can understand complaints from veterans of the Iraq war that the film has numerous military inaccuracies, yet I can forgive such failings. 

 Not because [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Precious (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/precious-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/precious-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1012</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Engaging, heart-wrenching, real, and strong, Precious delves deeply into dark places where our need for love collides with poverty &#8212; poverty of money, of spirit, of love, and of character. In the midst of the collision what chance has a child to see any goodness, truth, or beauty? 

 The darkness will destroy some children [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>An Education (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/an-education-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/an-education-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1003</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Funny, clever, poignant, painful, and redemptive, An Education puts us in the position of a teenage British school girl finding direction in life. If being serious about life is important, where is the place

 for loving fine things in life like gourmet food, wonderful music, beautiful paintings, and the glories of a cosmopolitan city? How [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Road (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/road-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/road-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Set in a bleak and barren post-apocalyptic world, The Road intensely and insightfully explores the nature of goodness, hope, and love. How dark can your world get before you lose hope? At what point

 do you lose the human qualities of goodness and morality and descend to the state of an animal surviving? How small [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Lovely Bones (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/lovely-bones-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/lovely-bones-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lovely Bones is a murder non-mystery. By telling us at the start that Susie Salmon was murdered and near the start who did it, the film turns the focus to the lives and relationships

 of those left behind. To be sure, it is useful to explore such a loss, even though it&#8217;s been done [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Batman Begins (After viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/batman-begins-after</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/batman-begins-after#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=981</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Watching Batman Begins, seeing Bruce Wayne&#8217;s internal struggle to find the right response to evil, and seeing the contrast with Ducard&#8217;s definition of justice, I want to find a clearer and better response to the offenses I suffer in my own life. Don&#8217;t get me wrong: I have no delusions that I would be a [...] (released: 2005) ]]></description>
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		<title>Batman Begins (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/batman-begins-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/batman-begins-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Batman Begins is an superb example of what excellent screenwriting and directing can do for a familiar story. Batman can easily be (and has been) produced with simple action and black-and-white morality. Christopher Nolan

 (with the story and screenwriting collaboration of David Goyer), in Batman Begins, deeply explores the nature of mankind&#8217;s struggle with morality, [...] (released: 2005) ]]></description>
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		<title>Avatar (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/avatar-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/avatar-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=973</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[To a large degree, the environmental morality play contained in Avatar is painted in broad and simple strokes. Still, there is something compelling in the film&#8217;s embodiment of connection to and respect for the land.

 In Avatar, common stereotypes are served-up fully baked: The capitalist is money-hungry, goal-oriented, and uncaring, the military general sees little [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel Rwanda (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/hotel-rwanda-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/hotel-rwanda-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hotel Rwanda asks whether we will do what we can to address the darkness around us. For 100 days in 1994, the world watched the horror of the Rwandan genocide and took no action. Through the eyes of a hotel manager

 in Rwanda, the film explores a personal transition from self-centered isolation to selfless, risky [...] (released: 2004) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Ice Storm (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/ice-storm-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/ice-storm-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The ending of The Ice Storm is an impactful moment of character development, and the rest of the film contributes much toward that moment&#8217;s impact. However, there is much in the film&#8217;s path of exploration that tends to dwell on relational dysfunction in a 

 way that simply hurts to watch. The film explores marital [...] (released: 1997) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Savages (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/savages-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/savages-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Savages is an unvarnished exploration of family dysfunction and reunion between a father, a brother, and a sister. There are many insightful moments that well capture tenderness, animosity, mistrust, self-hiding, caring,

 responsibility, and ridicule. Although the film will have, for most viewers, new perspectives on their own lives and choices, its manner of exploration [...] (released: 2007) ]]></description>
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