Part of ‘Don’t Be So Political’, a political film series showing one Sunday night a month.
“It belongs in a museum.”
An adventuring archaeology professor must find the fabled Ark of the Covenant before Hitler’s Third Reich unleashes its awesome power.
An artifact can live a people’s history. To take it from those people weakens their identity. And while Indiana Jones has noble intentions in displaying these artifacts in museums for educational purposes, the ownership of certain artifacts has become a political issue. The contention of the British with the Parthenon’s Frieze and others, the French with Egyptian obelisks and others, and the ROM and RAM with, until recently, the Creator Stone of the First Nations and others. However, the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark precedes the publicity of this issue and instead uses the Ark of the Covenant as a symbolic replacement for the atomic bomb, its biblical might, and the unthinkable consequences of its use. Winner of four Oscars and nominee of four more, Spielberg steers Harrison Ford and Karen Allen through an action-packed adventure at pace with any summer blockbuster. (ZACH WORTZMAN)
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