Hey Tony,
 
Great pick, I love it when God gives us insight to stuff like that. Thank you for sharing that with us, and keep it up! Looking forward to more...
 
I also have received insight to movies that I never would have come up with on my own but believe that it was a gift from the Holy Spirit. One example, that I I got a long time ago, and that I have posted about way back when on the Doves, bears repeating now, I think.
 
It has to do with two movies that at first glance would seem to have nothing to do with each other. But with further thought and Holy Spirit help, there does end up being a great deal in common between them, and much significance for us, with these two films.
 
They are, Apocalypse Now, (1979) and Dances With Wolves, (1990). Huh? You might say... What could these two movies have in common? Well, for one thing they both share almost identical plot situations, though in different time periods. Both involve a military officer who is stationed by his commander in a far away, remote land, and left there for an extended period of time. Both of these officers, after much time with little contact with their commander, begin to develop relationships with the local natives where they are stationed and eventually become more loyal to these locals than they are to their own command headquarters. So much so that their own leaders are forced to deal with them as hostile, renegade enemies, rather than as with loyal soldiers that they were supposed to be.
 
Something that is very significant is that in the first film, Apocalypse Now, this renegade officer, played by Marlon Brando, is clearly portrayed as being in the wrong. The whole film follows the story of the secret agent, played by Martin Sheen, who is sent in, after being briefed in a secret, low profile meeting of top officials, to "terminate the Colonel's command with extreme prejudice..." In other words, execute him. We as the audience are allowed to view Brando's character as evil and worthy of punishment.
 
However in the later film, though the same offense is being committed by this other officer, (played by Kevin Costner) we as the audience are shown the story from this officer's perspective and we are made to see him now as a good guy. He is a peaceful, caring person who only wants to get along with everyone. By the time his command center does show up with troops, they are shown to be hostile, warlike, vicious, evil, mean-spirited thugs. (Even shooting the nice wolf...) So these roles are reversed. Now it is the commander who is evil and the renegade, disobeying officer is seen as good.
 
How this all applies to us is that we, as Christians, also have a military commander who is in His headquarters (heaven) and has sent us out to a far away, remote land, (this world) where He has instructed us to "Occupy until I come again". He has sent us out as soldiers in a hostile environment and told us to take and hold territory. But also warned us not to fraternise with this world.
 
James 4:4
know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
 
2 Timothy 2:
3.  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
 4.  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
 
Luke 19:
 11.  And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
 12.  He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
 13.  And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
 14.  But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
 15.  And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading....
 27.  But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

 
Matthew 10:
 16.  Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
 
Right there, you have a very interesting play on the title of this movie. If Jesus sent us out to be His representatives in this world of wolves, is it not then significant that to become overly friendly with this world is to be "Dancing With Wolves"? And to do this at a time when the "Apocalypse is Now" would be even worse.
 
It is amazing to me how these kinds of subjects make it into movies as though just dreamed up by someone. It makes you wonder if they are aware of the spiritual significance and did this on purpose or are just being used and influenced by spirits unbeknownst to them...
 
Barry Amundsen