My sister (who just set up her own blog) is visiting, and we watched a couple of movies last night and tonight. Last night I invited her to watch Lagaan with me. Lagaan is an Indian movie, with English subtitles, set during British colonial times. It’s a romance, very Hindu, and it’s also the story of a cricket match. If you have almost four hours to spare, it’s a beautiful movie. Oh, you also should know something about cricket—or enjoy watching a very long game that you don’t understand. I chose the latter since cricket is a foreign language to me and to most other non-British people. I’m not making the movie sound very interesting, but it really is. I nominate it for best foreign movie with subtitles I’ve seen, other than Life is Beautiful.

Tonight my sister had us all watching The Village. Quite thought-provoking. We had a discussion after we watched the movie about homeschooling and sheltering your children. How much is too much? Can you protect your children from everything evil? Should you scare them into submission with lies and scary stories? This movie has a lot to say to homeschoolers in particular. Although I believe in sheltering and protecting my children, one can only protect them from the outside, not from what is within. We carry our sin nature within us. Only the Truth can set us free.