This movie gets a review from me, just after seeing the trailer. Very seldom that happens. The following is taken from movie web site.
Finding Joe is an exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s studies and their continuing impact on our culture. Through interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields interwoven with enactments of classic tales by a sweet and motley group of kids, the film navigates the stages of what Campbell dubbed The Hero’s Journey: the challenges, the fears, the dragons, the battles, and the return home as a changed person. Rooted in deeply personal accounts and timeless stories, Finding Joe shows how Campbell’s work is relevant and essential in today’s world and how it provides a narrative for how to live a fully realized life – or as Campbell would simply state, how to “follow your bliss”.
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This film was an awesome way to extrapolate upon the work of Joseph Campbell and how it can be applied to our lives. The director explained in an <a href="http://empiricalmag.blogspot.com/2012/12/from-empirical-archives-finding-your.html>interview</a> a while back how he applied the message of the myths to his own life in making his project. It's a good read to get some background about the movie, just to get some extra perspective. I found out about this film through it too, and on the whole I was pretty enthused about it in the end.
Thanks for the link Dan. Appreciate that. Will definitely watch it.
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