A very interesting example is "The Rapture", which has Mimi Rogers turn down redemption from God because of the problem of evil (specifically, how he could have allowed her to kill her daughter in the mistaken belief that the Rapture was about to occur).
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
Professor of Philosophy and Film
Lock Haven University
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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