Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert leads this group discussion.
This month’s movie, Joe vs. The Volcano, stars Tom Hanks, as Joe, a squashed bug of a guy under the heel of a hideous corporation, working in a dehumanizing job. Then everything changes in this romantic comedy about courage and a man’s soul … of a man coming back to life on a journey that takes him halfway around the world. At its heart, this movie is a fairy tale filled with travels and travails, obstacles and the overcoming of them, adventure and romance, symbols and archetypes. It’s a deeply searching and existential film that doubles as both a satire and a romantic comedy. It is a deeply moving, almost transcendent film.
