![]() ![]() ![]() Attentive as I was, I was unable to find anything anti-religious in the movie, which works above all as an adventure. may represent more confident believers whose response to other beliefs is to respond, rather than suppress.įor most families, such questions will be beside the point. The books have been attacked by American Christians over questions of religion their popularity in the U.K. This version by New Line Cinema and writer-director Chris Weitz (" About a Boy") leaves aside religion and God, and presents the Magisterium as sort of a Soviet dictatorship or Big Brother. Pullman's evil force, called the Magisterium in the books, represents organized religion, and his series is about no less than the death of God, who he depicts as an aged, spent force. ![]() They weren't murky in the original 1995 novel, part of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, a best seller in Britain, less so here. ![]()
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