Watched an offbeat movie called Final Cut last night that is one of those movies that you don’t know whether to recommend or not–but it makes you think. The premise is about a company called Eye Tech and a product called the Zoe Implant that records your life via what you see with you eyes. Your entire life is captured and saved. Then at the end of your life, there is a rememory that is spliced together by a “cutter” who basically edits your life and shows your video to the family and friends of the deceased.

A few things strike me. I remember that song I used to sing in Sunday School, “Be careful little eyes what you see.” This movie definitely portrays the significance of what you see-good and bad. It’s a little frigtening because all of us have seen things we wish we hadn’t recorded! The other thing that stuck me is that the technology of the movie doesn’t seem that far removed from reality.

To put the movie in theological terms, it’s pretty awesome to think about the way God is the “Cutter” with a capital C. He cuts the sin and He splices together the good stuff. I think a “glorified memory” is part of the “glorified body” deal in heaven. It’s part of the package. It’s pretty exciting to know that we’ll forget what God wants us to forget and remember what God wants us to remember. Just like God.