MOVIE: Dogma (1999)

lighteye (70)in Team Serbia • 2 years ago

Once upon a time when I was young, I worked in a video production company, which also bought movies for the whole Yugoslav market. When buying movie packages, there was one good movie for every 20 bad movies.

The year 1999 was a good movie year. There were several unforgettable flicks that became a prophecy of the coming times. ‘Matrix’ was most notable, but we also had the best schizophrenia movie ‘Fight Club’, we had the last of Stanley Kubrick genius ‘Eyes wide shut’, we had ‘American Beauty’, ‘The Green Mile’, ‘The Sixth Sense’…

All good movies, but I was most interested for the first ‘big production’ of a director who made a miracle on a minimal budget with the phenomenal comedy ‘Clerks’ (1994) – Kevin Smith. It was the one in twenty of a movie package…

Kevin Smith’s ‘Dogma’ is a comedy of two fallen angels (Ben Affleck & Matt Damon) who are searching a way to return to Heaven by causing biblical destruction. A gallery of characters are trying to stop them – and in the cast are Linda Fiorentino (As Bethany, an abortion clinic worker with a special heritage), Alan Rickman, Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes & Kevin Smith), Chris Rock, Jason Lee, George Carlin (yes, the one and only, as Cardinal Glick), and a God herself – Alanis Morissette!

Watch ‘Dogma’ at Bastyon. Duration: 2:03:15

^{Chris Rock, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes and Linda Fiorentino}

In the first three minutes you can see the announcement of a modern chaotic World, a Facebook symbol, and a destruction of Catholicism through ‘reformation’… But the remaining two hours are also full of startling future predictions, paradoxes of religious philosophy, and hilarious action.