I stumbled across a few, um, poor attempts to name seven films that capture:

• faith (thesaurus: trust, confidence, reliance)
• hope (thesaurus: expect, count upon, look to)
• charity (love) (thesaurus: mercy, clemency, grace)
• fortitude (thesaurus: courage, grit, nerve)
• justice (thesaurus: equity, fairness)
• temperance (thesaurus: moderation, restraint)
• prudence (thesaurus: caution, discretion, shrewdness)

What would you pick for each of these? I'm working on my list. Here is a site that discusses the seven...

Divides many but I think Signs does a great job in exploring the need for faith. As does Contact.

Has plenty of faults but The Wicker Man certainly has a great display of fortitude.

And for justice, how about Insomnia?

That'll do for a start!

Phil.

*giggles*

Whereas I thought Contact did a great job in exploring the need for acceptance of other's beliefs whilst also highlighting that lack of faith is an equally valid belief system.

But, as a non-believer, I would, right? Ooh... divisions appearing already


[Moderator note: As the Contact discussion was developing away from the thread topic, I moved it to a new thread, here. mh]

If we are speaking of faith rightly so called, as one of the three theological virtues, it is a gift of God that necessarily has God and divine revelation as its object. Non-religious belief, and even belief in other religions, is not properly faith at all.

A few off the top of my morning head:
Hope - Shawshank Redemption
Fortitude - Matewan; The Winslow Boy
Temperance - Tender Mercies
Justice - Do the Right Thing; Lone Star; Philadelphia; The Winslow Boy
Faith - The Fisher King; Field of Dreams; Places in the Heart; Memento; Miracle on 34th St.

See here:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DH...i.cgi?id=dv2-25

for an interesting overview of the historical development of the concept of "faith" (and hope and charity) and the distinction in "faith" between the different Christian denominations.

*goes to the library to find out more*

OK, here's a summary of suggestons with some of my own

• Faith
  Signs, (Contact?), The Fisher King, Field of Dreams, Places in the Heart, Memento, Miracle on 34th St., Ordet, The Mission, Stalker,
• Hope
  The Shawshank Redemption, Punch-Drunk Love,
• Charity (love)
  Breaking the Waves, Dead Man Walking, Magnolia, Life is Beautiful
• Fortitude
  The Wicker Man, Matewan, The Winslow Boy, Henry V, Ikiru, The Lord of the Rings, A Man for All Seasons, Sansho the Bailiff,
• Justice
  Insomnia, Do the Right Thing, Lone Star, Philadelphia, The Winslow Boy, La Promesse,
• Temperance
  Tender Mercies, Babette's Feast
• Prudence
  Sense and Sensibility