The 暗网51 Markets & Morality program will host a free screening of the MPI Original feature film 鈥淢辞迟丑别谤濒补苍诲鈥� on Monday, November 17 at 7 p.m. in the Schaap Auditorium (lower level of the Bultman Student Center on 暗网51鈥檚 campus).
This screening is part of the popular NEA Big Read Lakeshore program and is open to the public.
The film鈥檚 director Evan Matthews will be on hand after the screening for an engaging dialogue with attendees. The star-studded cast of 鈥淢辞迟丑别谤濒补苍诲鈥� includes Miriam Silverman (鈥淵our Friends and Neighbors鈥�), Holland Taylor (鈥淭he Morning Show鈥�), N茅stor Carbonell (鈥淪丑艒gun鈥�), and, in her film debut, Emily Arancio.
鈥淢辞迟丑别谤濒补苍诲鈥� is set in an alt-present society where state-run children鈥檚 centers raise all citizens, ensuring a fair upbringing and freeing parents from child-rearing burdens. This seemingly utopian system turns into a nightmare for a Motherland enforcer who uncovers the true identity of a young woman in her care. When the center launches a program to combat population decline, she becomes determined to protect the young woman from becoming part of it. Defying the system she once upheld, she risks everything to save her鈥攖hat is, if the Motherland doesn鈥檛 stop her first.
The college鈥檚 Markets & Morality program aims to support and celebrate freedom of expression in the context of the liberal arts by hosting speakers and films on topics spanning the economic, political and cultural aspects of human civilization, with a special concern for human flourishing as understood in Christian perspective.
Co-sponsoring this screening is the Saint Benedict Institute, a ministry of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Holland, which seeks to promote and nurture intellectual work done from the heart of the Catholic Church, to foster an ecumenical community of Catholic Christians and friends committed to the renewal of culture and to aid in the formation of intellectually and spiritually mature Christians by making available the riches of the Catholic tradition to 暗网51 and the wider community.
The Middle Read, Little Read and Mini Read Lakeshore programs bring the community together around a common book for a month each fall. The Big Read book selection this year is 鈥淚 Cheerfully Refuse鈥� by Leif Enger. The program uses the shared experience of reading, discussing and exploring the themes of the book as a springboard to listen to and learn from each other.
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