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I saw the movie Amelie before I converted. I remember one scene where two unmarried people have sex in the bathroom of a public building and although you do not see them performing the act you hear them moaning like animals and it is supposed to be some sort of joke how everyone else hears them and knows what they are doing. The movie is trash.

While these sorts of scenes are a good reason to avoid most movies, I don't think they're the #1 problem in modern movies.

Sin happens and to give some indication that your character is sinning is not a bad thing. But, no matter if you throw in unnecessary noises/images or not, the absolute necessity of a good film is that the viewer leaves with an understanding that the action was WRONG. The character at minimum should be shown enduring the worldly sufferings that accompany sin.

If the film shows no distinction between vice and virtue, it's trash.
If the film distorts reality to suggest that sinful behavior is either neutral or good, it's also garbage.

So, it took me a while to give the show a chance, but I had been hearing from more and more fairly reliable friends that it was good. I started watching (you are going to think I'm crazy--but it fits the criteria of making distinctions between vice and virtue) "The Walking Dead". Of course this show is only for adults and honestly I did not think I would like it (and I didn't like most of the first episode), but it's really good so far. I am up to episode 9.

The impression I get is that every TV show or movie has to offer it's sacrifice to Satan. Somewhere in the movie, must be a flash of flesh, an innuendo, taking Our Lord's Holy Name in vain, a blasphemy or swearing.

Shin,
That's a really good point. In this particular show they seem to use some of this to show the world but then they seem to use it to highlight the good in stark contrast with that.

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Gabriella said:
Have you ever seen the old 1945 version of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"? I think you might like it based on your movie suggestions. (It's one of my favorites.)

Yes I have seen that 1945 picture!  It was very good.  I read the book before my conversion and thought it good also but tried to read it again a few months ago and was appalled!  I know that the author was a ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ but I didn't realize how "gαy" the book was until I read it with my now spiritually open eyes.
The movie did not impress me with that theme but since it was made in 1945, I don't believe that current running through the story would have been acceptable then.

Yes, that underlying theme runs through the movie for a reason--to oppose it. Did you also know that the author was also a long time admirer of Catholicism and died a good Catholic death:

"In 1899 Wilde traveled in Europe, an exile. In 1900 he was briefly in Rome with his companion Robbie Ross. They attended Masses and papal audiences, and Wilde received a blessing from Leo XIII that, he thought, even had a physically curative effect on him. As he joked to Ross, he was "a violent Papist," but he left Rome as he had come, still an admirer of sacred art and sacred ritual, of piety and the papacy, but not yet a Catholic. His health deteriorating and his drinking excessive, Wilde left Rome for Paris, where the final scene of his long conversion would be played.

On November 28,1900, as Wilde lay dying on his bed in Paris, Robbie Ross called in a priest, an English Passionist, Father Dunne. Wilde was given conditional Baptism and was anointed. For a short time he emerged from delirium into lucidity, and Father Dunne, examining him, was satisfied that Wilde freely desired reception into the Church. Wilde died a Catholic on November 30."

We came across a very sweet OLD B&W movie about a priest and a con man; it is a story of redemption. Here's a clip:
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/316806/When-In-Rome-Movie-Clip-Father-Hooligan.html

Very good movie but not available on DVD.
TCM runs it about every 4 or 5 years.
The last time was in March and some here on Cathinfo watched it.
https://www.cathinfo.com/general-discussion/family-movie-when-in-rome-1952/msg545738/#msg545738

We were thinking of recording it on VCR, and then going to Costco to have it copied to a DVD. Would that work?

Maybe nature docuмentaries on Netflix? But then I suppose many have an evolutionary twist. If you search online you can find a list of codes for Netflix genres that don't ordinarily come up in the queue. I guess they have more to choose from than is offered at first glance. I try to choose from very old movies or historical docuмentaries. Modern movies are pretty much right out. Even the ones that seem like they will be innocent manage to sneak in innuendo that is unnecessary to the plot. And if your streaming service includes commercial interruptions, you can bet they will be immodest.

Oliver Twist 1948, is an excellent movie.  It starts out a little slow, but is well worth the wait.  The book must be outstanding.  I wish I had the time to read more novels, like I used to.