There is a young man, different from other young men. Ancient prophecies foretell The Matrix or Superman, reasons that have as much to do with global politics as with our cultural moment, some of this generation’s most successful sci-fi and fantasy movie franchises follow

Morpheus says. “Like everyone else, you were born into bondage.” One reason that Disney finally made a movie out of C. S. Lewis’s Christian allegory The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 2005 may be that popular fantasy has become increasingly religious at heart.
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