Author Mark Roques warns us to be on our guard when watching television and movies 

Hollywood films are great to enjoy over a carton of popcorn. Enjoy, but be discerning. They often promote a popular and pervasive form of secular faith. Don’t be mugged by the Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Let me explain.

At the beginning of the 2001 movie Legally Blonde Elle Woods is a dizzy and rather shallow young woman. She talks extensively about make-overs, hair styling, manicures and little else. She tells her friends that anyone who believes that “orange is the new pink is seriously disturbed”. However, when jilted by her fiancée, she wakes up one morning and decides to “believe in herself” as a future heroine… (Register to read the rest of the article)