Just finished watching the final film assigned for my religion and film course. It's about a son driving his father from Paris to Mecca to do his Hajj. The tensions between the father and son parallel the tensions between religiosity and modernity. Thought the following scene to be quite meaningful. Scroll to 2 minutes and 12 seconds to watch.
"What's on your mind?"
"I wanted to ask you something."
"What?"
"Why didn't you fly to Mecca? It's a lot simpler."
"When the waters of the ocean rise to the heavens, they lose their bitterness to become pure again."
"What?"
"The ocean waters evaporate as they rise to the clouds. And as they evaporate they become fresh. That's why it's better to go on your pilgrimage on foot than on horseback, better on horseback than by car, better by car than by boat, and better by boat than by plane."
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