Christian or not there is no excuse for bad acting. The dad should go back to acting class or just quit.
23 Reviews
Unbearable
ackermanle26 November 2018
Much Ado About Nothing
bkoganbing12 February 2017
After watching Princess Cut it looked like I was watching a 21st century version of the Waltons. This Anderson family is part of a dying breed, owners and operators of a family farm. More and more folks like the Andersons are just tenants for conglomerates like Archer,Daniels,Midland.
A case of normal jitters involving a young girl Ashley Bratcher not sure if she wants to marry Joseph Gray and things not going quite to her romantic expectations gets blown up into a big old drama settled by Gray spending time on the Anderson farm with her parents and brothers and getting to know their Christian faith.
It's sweet and saccharine and much ado about nothing.
A case of normal jitters involving a young girl Ashley Bratcher not sure if she wants to marry Joseph Gray and things not going quite to her romantic expectations gets blown up into a big old drama settled by Gray spending time on the Anderson farm with her parents and brothers and getting to know their Christian faith.
It's sweet and saccharine and much ado about nothing.
Evolving values
crazyelisella26 June 2016
I liked the fact that the movie has Christian elements in it. To find a person to share your life with is indeed a blessing. Nowadays, most people forget Christian values especially when it comes to find your soulmate. It is sad to see how many girls surrender to the 'wishes' of their boyfriends or how they sell or change themselves just to be loved. Only one thing bothered me very much...the role of the mother. She was passive and had not much to say when her daughter needed advice. Instead she and her daughter went to the father to 'share his wisdom'. I mean...really??? Is she that dumb or is it just the fact that Christianity is coupled with a traditional female role? A woman that cleans up the house, cooks for the family and submits to her husband, whatever he says??? Of course, it's good to have a father or a husband that protects you...but it let's not forget that he doesn't always know what is right for you, he is also just human. Also the Christian Religion is evolving and the presented values are puritan.
Disappointed in the lead character
mjoymarie5 September 2018
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This movie portrays a girl with strong Christian values who apparently only lives for the potential of getting married. They show a girl who portrays zero independence or strength Outside of men. I was very disappointed.
Drew: You're Obsessed with Getting Married. The only self aware character this whole movie
smooth_op_851 June 2020
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This film has a great message but it doesn't execute it well by any means. Grace is obsessed with getting married and it's frankly limiting her character. When she meets Jared at a coffeeshop she asks "What's romantic about selling coffee?" She has a one track mind and it's all about marriage. It's infuriating. Same thing with her Dad and using Jeremiah 29:6 out of context. Dad is basically Straight Pete Buttigieg, and he is there to guide his daughter through the process. He comes off more like someone whose ulterior motive is to get her out of the house so he can use her room as a BDSM dungeon or something.
The fact that this movie is so focused on getting Grace married is crazy. I don't see why her focus is on that alone, she is a college student and she could have a great career ahead of her and have a family as well. When men are single they're not looked at as broken because they're not married, in fact singleness among men is celebrated in American culture.
This movie does marry her off in the last 5 minutes of the film to Dr Clint, and she lives right next door to her parents. It is implied that she will be a stay at home Mom just like her own, and I hated that.
Avoid this like the plague or make watching a drinking game
The fact that this movie is so focused on getting Grace married is crazy. I don't see why her focus is on that alone, she is a college student and she could have a great career ahead of her and have a family as well. When men are single they're not looked at as broken because they're not married, in fact singleness among men is celebrated in American culture.
This movie does marry her off in the last 5 minutes of the film to Dr Clint, and she lives right next door to her parents. It is implied that she will be a stay at home Mom just like her own, and I hated that.
Avoid this like the plague or make watching a drinking game
Heartbreaking,
goblinteacupsmith22 March 2021
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I won't get started on the purity culture and patriarchal views that make up the entire premise of this movie. They're as expected, with the adult main character getting kissed causing a full-on hysterical breakdown and from there forward her dad being in charge of any future dating. As toxic, and potentially even more harmful, it is full of demonizing and stereotyping those outside of their quite insular little world. The two presumably non-Christian supporting characters, who we know (gasp) kiss before marriage, are shown as malicious villains, and the therapist is made out to be a clown, proving the heroine's hesitancy to see one correct. I was so, so sad to see these ideas being pushed and have never understood why a powerful God who wants the heart of a faithful person could not overcome the "danger" of that person getting to know someone outside of their church, or working on themselves in other ways in addition to prayer.
The production value and acting were better than many Christian films out there, so aside from being one of the most heartbreaking and toxic movies I have ever seen, it was watchable enough. My favorite part of the movie was the beginning when the main character, after shopping for engagement rings, heads out hopefully for her "date", which ends up being a group hangout during which the person she thought she was dating announces his engagement to someone else. Ironic and telling- kudos writers.
The production value and acting were better than many Christian films out there, so aside from being one of the most heartbreaking and toxic movies I have ever seen, it was watchable enough. My favorite part of the movie was the beginning when the main character, after shopping for engagement rings, heads out hopefully for her "date", which ends up being a group hangout during which the person she thought she was dating announces his engagement to someone else. Ironic and telling- kudos writers.
I'm all for a Christian movie, but not this one
deniseahunter23 November 2019
Where do I begin? A 20ish young woman being treated like a 15 year old by her parents and who tells her boyfriend when he tries to kiss her, "not until you put a ring on it". A subservient wife. A cliche Christian husband who rules the roost. Oh, and therapists give horrible advice and people who go to them are losers. Yeah, I couldn't finish.
Watch it for the camp value!
johnnyrobot-1102829 April 2022
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Pure cringe, purity culture! The main character Grace's sole reason to exist is to get married. Somehow she has a worldly secular girlfriend who slipped past her parents' notice. They talk about BoYs and look at engagement rings.
One night she is expecting her college 'boyfriend' to propose, and he clearly didn't even think they were dating. "Why does this keep happening to me!?!"
She meets and starts seeing Jared, but he wants to get too physical for her. She has no life experience or self confidence to set boundaries, except to turn away from him when he tries to kiss her, and say "not until you put a ring on it."
There is a funny segment where Grace's little brother places a newspaper ad looking for a good man for Grace, and an assortment of misfits show up to the door. (It is not clear what year the movie is supposed to take place, but they do have iPhones. Still, everyone in the area reads newspapers.)
The dad mentions 'God' in every conversation. The mom is completely subservient to the dad, and I got the feeling that the 'Lord' put them together.
A hunky new neighbor approaches Grace's parents asking for permission to date their daughter with the intention and possibility of marriage BEFORE HE AND GRACE HAVE REALLY EVEN TALKED. Then he's basically dating the whole family until his ex shows up to cause trouble.
Jared, at the end, is pure gold if you can watch that far, attempting to MURDER the new boyfriend. I literally burst out laughing!
One night she is expecting her college 'boyfriend' to propose, and he clearly didn't even think they were dating. "Why does this keep happening to me!?!"
She meets and starts seeing Jared, but he wants to get too physical for her. She has no life experience or self confidence to set boundaries, except to turn away from him when he tries to kiss her, and say "not until you put a ring on it."
There is a funny segment where Grace's little brother places a newspaper ad looking for a good man for Grace, and an assortment of misfits show up to the door. (It is not clear what year the movie is supposed to take place, but they do have iPhones. Still, everyone in the area reads newspapers.)
The dad mentions 'God' in every conversation. The mom is completely subservient to the dad, and I got the feeling that the 'Lord' put them together.
A hunky new neighbor approaches Grace's parents asking for permission to date their daughter with the intention and possibility of marriage BEFORE HE AND GRACE HAVE REALLY EVEN TALKED. Then he's basically dating the whole family until his ex shows up to cause trouble.
Jared, at the end, is pure gold if you can watch that far, attempting to MURDER the new boyfriend. I literally burst out laughing!
Booooooored
smith-4036517 May 2020
Great story with great values
gottobtru200727 August 2018
As a Christian who is single I loved this movie. Yes in today's society this may be a far fetched idea of love. But I think if we went back to this idea of that love really is we would have less problems in our marriages. This movie has made me rethink the way I look for someone to spend the rest of my life with.
Cult Love story
samalysa8-55-9234577 December 2018
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The story started out great until She meets Jerry who is very nice. She gets kissed in the car after a date and says he forced himself on her and freaks out. Then it gets culty with her parents planning her relationship going forward. Then the best friend and an ex lover come into play on her man with no real plot pay offs. Next time Jerry shows up hes a totally different character with no explanation. Bad acting, poor story telling.
Awful movie
managementbykristi5 February 2021
Gives Christian movies a bad name
Scout70626 September 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Possible spoilers.
Only gave it a 1 because 0 was not available. Bad acting. Bad writing.
Why would a Christian family have debt on a farm after 3 generations? Why would a farmer fail to repair a combine worth several hundred thousand dollars DURING HARVEST SEASON? How can you think you're dating someone that (spoiler)announces his engagement to another? Bad.
Only gave it a 1 because 0 was not available. Bad acting. Bad writing.
Why would a Christian family have debt on a farm after 3 generations? Why would a farmer fail to repair a combine worth several hundred thousand dollars DURING HARVEST SEASON? How can you think you're dating someone that (spoiler)announces his engagement to another? Bad.
Don't waste your time
burnham54014 April 2020
I couldn't finish it. It's like one of those Christian motivational movies but not actually motivational. The acting is terrible. The main character hangs on to her parents beliefs and even though the movie tries to portray that the parents want to help her grow, it makes it seem as if the daughter is 7 years old and can't become her own person yet. Psychologically this movie doesn't do a lot to help a child become independent.
Loved it.
shoutgrace-3456125 August 2018
Wtf is this cheesy garbage!
northriverline16 September 2018
Important topics handled in an amateurish fashion
Machiavelli8420 September 2020
Let me start out this review by saying that there are topics discussed in this movie that the filmmakers and I (all of us being Christian) would see eye-to-eye on. Faith, the importance of parents in the decision-making of a spouse, the importance of preserving yourself for marriage, etc., all those things are important topics to discuss. Done well, they could have made for a good movie. Unfortunately, whatever potential there is to deal with this topic seriously gets completely and utterly wasted.
The gist of the plot is that a young woman in a small rural town (because these types of movies always seem to take place in one of those) named Grace has had a series of bad relationships. She gets in a relationship with a boy named Jared, only for him to push himself on her a bit and make her get more physical than she intended. She confesses this to her parents, breaks up with Jared, and vows to be more cautious and honoring to God in her next relationship. Enter Clint, a doctor who just moved in next door, and who eventually asks Grace's parents permission to court her. All is not well though: Brooke, Clint's old fling, enters the picture. Again, it's an interesting story, and could have been done well, but the film's delivery just ruins it.
For one, there's the acting, which is absolutely terrible. Most of the actors look and sound like their scenes were done in only one take, and with little enthusiasm done in the project. Scenes that were supposed to be serious actually had me cracking up. For example, there's a part where Jared tells Grace about how he came from a broken home, and Grace says things like "That's terrible" or "How sad"... but in absolute deadpan delivery. Seriously, it made Kirsten Stewart's performance in "Twilight" look like the final scene in "Schindler's List". The dad, played by Rusty Martin Sr. (whom many will probably recognize as Javier's sinister boss in "Courageous"), is supposed to be wise and sagely, and at times he is supposed to be commanding and forceful, but, again, because the scenes feel like the actors were forced to recite their lines and move on, come out as flat. Admittedly I was okay with Joseph Gray's performance as Clint, but, again, it comes out as weak enough that you have to wonder if anybody enjoyed themselves while filming this.
For another, there's the film making. Seriously, why could they NOT keep the camera still during this?! Were they shooting a family-friendly rom-com or a gritty police drama? Other reviewers have complained that it looks like it was filmed with a handheld camera, and that's not far from the truth. I half-wondered if the director gave his elderly grandmother the camera and had her film the whole thing. Note to directors: you can buy cheap tripods off of Amazon - or heck, go super cheap and just stack books or boxes on top of a chair or something. Anything! Not to mention that half the scenes are awkwardly shot, so that the camera has to jerk to correct the angle, or actors and elements will be covered up by other actors and elements. (It's hard to describe this in a review, but trust me - if you watch the film, you'll notice it.) Then there are some weird soundtrack choices, like when Grace goes to visit a secular therapist. There were weird animal noises in the background, and my wife and I had to mute the TV to make sure that the noises weren't coming from outside. What were they thinking with that?
The biggest problem with this movie is that 99% of this script MAKES NO ABSOLUTE SENSE. Here's a list of problems to highlight what I mean:
* Actions done by characters will make little to no sense. At the start of the movie, Grace goes to meet her (then boyfriend) at a restaurant, only to find his old college friends there, who then proceed to burp and do other rude stuff, which she is shocked by. (Really? He showed no sign of being this rude or crazy before?) Then when she mentions that he had something to tell her, he reveals that he's engaged to another girl. Wait, what?! Why would he invite his girlfriend, and even mention he had something to tell her, only to reveal that it was him being engaged to ANOTHER GIRL?! Then Grace gets up and storms out of the restaurant, and nobody - not the people at the table, not her (now) ex-boyfriend, not the waitress, nobody - stops her or asks what's wrong. It doesn't end there. When Grace meets Jared at a coffee shop, he asks, "Hey, didn't we meet at the jewelry store?" and she blurts out, "Thanks for reminding me of the worst day of my life!" and storms away. What?! Who talks like that! Then when Grace is talking with her friend Tessa about Jared's physical advances, Tessa outright blurts out, "Did he force himself on you?" Again, who talks like that to people? There are more examples, but so many parts of this movie will leave you going, "Wait, what?"
* After Grace confesses to her parents about how physical her and Jared got, her dad confesses that he's been so distracted lately with his work and forgot about checking in on her. Wait, what? They'd established already in the movie that ALL of Grace's relationships HER WHOLE LIFE had been duds. Dad, this isn't an oopsie on your part... You've been asleep at the wheel for most of your daughter's tenure on this earth.
* So much of this film skips time, forcing you to just accept the fact that characters are supposed to be developed between the lines. For example, there are two or three scenes of Jared and Grace hanging out together in coffee shops or at park benches, then a minute later you're told they've been together for weeks. Then when Clint helps out around the farm (how is he able to have time to do that when he's a doctor?) you see one scene of him goofing off with hay with the family, then the next scene? BOOM! He's asking the parents permission to court their daughter, to which it's mentioned that he's been helping "for months". What?! Could we have seen those months, or gotten a little more than hay tossing as character development? Relationships in this movie literally only work because it tells you they do. You feel zero connection with these people or care about their relationships.
* When Brooke, Clint's old fling, comes over to Grace's home with the intent to win him back, nobody - I mean NOBODY - tells her that he's courting Grace. Even Grace, when she has a chance, doesn't bother to do it, even though you'd think any girl at this point would be like "Back off my man!" Eventually Clint does tell her, but even by then it's gone on ridiculously long. (I was having nightmarish flashbacks of "While You Were Sleeping"...) On top of this, Brooke's character, for some odd reason, is done EXTREMELY creepy. Every scene with her is unintentionally weird, to the point that my wife and I started joking that she was like a Batman villain.
* Grace is friends with this girl named Tessa who sees completely opposite to her when it comes to worldviews, always talks down to her, and always offers the worst advice. In the middle of the movie, Tessa bumps into Clint (literally, that's their entire interaction) then gets upset as all heck with Grace for getting together with him, and even storm over to her house and accuses Grace of stealing Clint. Eh? Throughout the movie you'll be finding yourself constantly asking, "Why in the heck are these two even friends?!"
* Near the end of the movie, Jared attempts to sexually assault Grace (nothing over a PG-rating happens, but it's implied what he's about to do) until Clint intervenes, and then the dad comes in, but all that happens is that the dad tells Jared to get off his land. This, despite the fact that I'm fairly certain most dads, finding his daughter's manipulative ex-boyfriend about to rape her in the barn, would have either committed a citizen's arrest or killed him and buried him in the soybean field. (Having two daughters myself, I personally would have done the latter... but that's just me.)
I could go on, but I think you get the picture. Again, this movie COULD have been good, but it ends up being really, really bad. It's a good movie if you want something to riff on, or you need another example of why many films aimed at Christian audience are just Hallmark knock offs (which isn't much to begin with), but if you're looking for something actually decent in terms of writing and film making... just look elsewhere.
The gist of the plot is that a young woman in a small rural town (because these types of movies always seem to take place in one of those) named Grace has had a series of bad relationships. She gets in a relationship with a boy named Jared, only for him to push himself on her a bit and make her get more physical than she intended. She confesses this to her parents, breaks up with Jared, and vows to be more cautious and honoring to God in her next relationship. Enter Clint, a doctor who just moved in next door, and who eventually asks Grace's parents permission to court her. All is not well though: Brooke, Clint's old fling, enters the picture. Again, it's an interesting story, and could have been done well, but the film's delivery just ruins it.
For one, there's the acting, which is absolutely terrible. Most of the actors look and sound like their scenes were done in only one take, and with little enthusiasm done in the project. Scenes that were supposed to be serious actually had me cracking up. For example, there's a part where Jared tells Grace about how he came from a broken home, and Grace says things like "That's terrible" or "How sad"... but in absolute deadpan delivery. Seriously, it made Kirsten Stewart's performance in "Twilight" look like the final scene in "Schindler's List". The dad, played by Rusty Martin Sr. (whom many will probably recognize as Javier's sinister boss in "Courageous"), is supposed to be wise and sagely, and at times he is supposed to be commanding and forceful, but, again, because the scenes feel like the actors were forced to recite their lines and move on, come out as flat. Admittedly I was okay with Joseph Gray's performance as Clint, but, again, it comes out as weak enough that you have to wonder if anybody enjoyed themselves while filming this.
For another, there's the film making. Seriously, why could they NOT keep the camera still during this?! Were they shooting a family-friendly rom-com or a gritty police drama? Other reviewers have complained that it looks like it was filmed with a handheld camera, and that's not far from the truth. I half-wondered if the director gave his elderly grandmother the camera and had her film the whole thing. Note to directors: you can buy cheap tripods off of Amazon - or heck, go super cheap and just stack books or boxes on top of a chair or something. Anything! Not to mention that half the scenes are awkwardly shot, so that the camera has to jerk to correct the angle, or actors and elements will be covered up by other actors and elements. (It's hard to describe this in a review, but trust me - if you watch the film, you'll notice it.) Then there are some weird soundtrack choices, like when Grace goes to visit a secular therapist. There were weird animal noises in the background, and my wife and I had to mute the TV to make sure that the noises weren't coming from outside. What were they thinking with that?
The biggest problem with this movie is that 99% of this script MAKES NO ABSOLUTE SENSE. Here's a list of problems to highlight what I mean:
* Actions done by characters will make little to no sense. At the start of the movie, Grace goes to meet her (then boyfriend) at a restaurant, only to find his old college friends there, who then proceed to burp and do other rude stuff, which she is shocked by. (Really? He showed no sign of being this rude or crazy before?) Then when she mentions that he had something to tell her, he reveals that he's engaged to another girl. Wait, what?! Why would he invite his girlfriend, and even mention he had something to tell her, only to reveal that it was him being engaged to ANOTHER GIRL?! Then Grace gets up and storms out of the restaurant, and nobody - not the people at the table, not her (now) ex-boyfriend, not the waitress, nobody - stops her or asks what's wrong. It doesn't end there. When Grace meets Jared at a coffee shop, he asks, "Hey, didn't we meet at the jewelry store?" and she blurts out, "Thanks for reminding me of the worst day of my life!" and storms away. What?! Who talks like that! Then when Grace is talking with her friend Tessa about Jared's physical advances, Tessa outright blurts out, "Did he force himself on you?" Again, who talks like that to people? There are more examples, but so many parts of this movie will leave you going, "Wait, what?"
* After Grace confesses to her parents about how physical her and Jared got, her dad confesses that he's been so distracted lately with his work and forgot about checking in on her. Wait, what? They'd established already in the movie that ALL of Grace's relationships HER WHOLE LIFE had been duds. Dad, this isn't an oopsie on your part... You've been asleep at the wheel for most of your daughter's tenure on this earth.
* So much of this film skips time, forcing you to just accept the fact that characters are supposed to be developed between the lines. For example, there are two or three scenes of Jared and Grace hanging out together in coffee shops or at park benches, then a minute later you're told they've been together for weeks. Then when Clint helps out around the farm (how is he able to have time to do that when he's a doctor?) you see one scene of him goofing off with hay with the family, then the next scene? BOOM! He's asking the parents permission to court their daughter, to which it's mentioned that he's been helping "for months". What?! Could we have seen those months, or gotten a little more than hay tossing as character development? Relationships in this movie literally only work because it tells you they do. You feel zero connection with these people or care about their relationships.
* When Brooke, Clint's old fling, comes over to Grace's home with the intent to win him back, nobody - I mean NOBODY - tells her that he's courting Grace. Even Grace, when she has a chance, doesn't bother to do it, even though you'd think any girl at this point would be like "Back off my man!" Eventually Clint does tell her, but even by then it's gone on ridiculously long. (I was having nightmarish flashbacks of "While You Were Sleeping"...) On top of this, Brooke's character, for some odd reason, is done EXTREMELY creepy. Every scene with her is unintentionally weird, to the point that my wife and I started joking that she was like a Batman villain.
* Grace is friends with this girl named Tessa who sees completely opposite to her when it comes to worldviews, always talks down to her, and always offers the worst advice. In the middle of the movie, Tessa bumps into Clint (literally, that's their entire interaction) then gets upset as all heck with Grace for getting together with him, and even storm over to her house and accuses Grace of stealing Clint. Eh? Throughout the movie you'll be finding yourself constantly asking, "Why in the heck are these two even friends?!"
* Near the end of the movie, Jared attempts to sexually assault Grace (nothing over a PG-rating happens, but it's implied what he's about to do) until Clint intervenes, and then the dad comes in, but all that happens is that the dad tells Jared to get off his land. This, despite the fact that I'm fairly certain most dads, finding his daughter's manipulative ex-boyfriend about to rape her in the barn, would have either committed a citizen's arrest or killed him and buried him in the soybean field. (Having two daughters myself, I personally would have done the latter... but that's just me.)
I could go on, but I think you get the picture. Again, this movie COULD have been good, but it ends up being really, really bad. It's a good movie if you want something to riff on, or you need another example of why many films aimed at Christian audience are just Hallmark knock offs (which isn't much to begin with), but if you're looking for something actually decent in terms of writing and film making... just look elsewhere.
Could only get a quarter of the way through...
I_sometimes_have_opinions9 September 2018
And then I absolutely "couldn't even" anymore.
This movie is so ridiculous and makes zero sense. It is also awful in it's treatment of women. This movie was made recently, right? It feels so old-fashioned (and not in a cute/sweet way).
Not worth a watch.
Not worth a watch.
Christian values seem to revolve around sexuality
bluealexblue6 October 2022
I liked this movie for the way it shows the family's closeness, mutual respect and love. Having been brought up by very religiuos catholic parents, who prayed a lot and forced me to go to church all the time, but raised me without showing true love, tenderness, beating and humiliating me in many ways, I watched the relations in this family with admiration. So for me the main message of this movie was that if you want to have an influence on your children and have a close relationship with them surrounding your them with unconditional love, showing them respect and gentleness is crucial.
Nothing was forced here, everything stemmed from the shared closeness, respecting boundaries, spending time together. It showed the strong marriage of the parents and the example they set in always being steady, peaceful, balanced and generous as the foundation of the children's future.
These are not exclusively Christian values, however. I brought up my daughter according to them, although I rejected religion early in my youth. I gave her something more though, the freedom to make her own choices and mistakes, to think for herself, to ask questions, evolve and be independent.
In this film, the most important Christain value concerns (surprise, surprise) sexuality. Even being kissed is portrayed as immoral! The girl's behaviour is very confusing to me. In life either you are attracted to someone or not. It seems unclear if she was attracted to Jared or wasn't.
Did she like the kissing and thought it sinful or was she simply not enjoying it? The message seems to be very puritanical though - kissing is a sin, as it leads to unholy urges. This suppression of the body, of our natural expression of love seems to be one of the greatest sin of Christianity.
The greater "sin", to me, is shown in first scene of the film, its lietmotif, the obscenely expensive diamond ring Grace is fixated on receiving.
To a really spiritual person this doesn't matter. That's not what Jesus taught.
What disturbed me more, was the contempt and aggresivity shown by Grace's exemplary Christain father to the estate agent. Again, would Jesus approve? Where's the true Christian love and compassion gone?
The lesson here is that the blind observance of some rules, called religion, is a long distance from spirituality, from true reflection. The world we're presented with is black and white. Every non-Christian here is grotesue, idiotic or violent.
The saddest thing in the movie is the mother, cut off from her feminine intuition and wisdom, blindly following her husband's judgemets, she has thoughtlessly formed her daughter to be her replica: once married, she will just switch her father's authority to her husband's and will bring up her daughter in the same fashion.
Dear Christians, please kindly ask yourselves: is your religion actually really helping you to love everybody? Are you the uniting or dividing force in the world...? Always double-check your values. Dig deeper.
Oh, and the last thing. The inclusion of the lighthearted shooting competition scene deeply disturbed me. Christian values? Hello?
Nothing was forced here, everything stemmed from the shared closeness, respecting boundaries, spending time together. It showed the strong marriage of the parents and the example they set in always being steady, peaceful, balanced and generous as the foundation of the children's future.
These are not exclusively Christian values, however. I brought up my daughter according to them, although I rejected religion early in my youth. I gave her something more though, the freedom to make her own choices and mistakes, to think for herself, to ask questions, evolve and be independent.
In this film, the most important Christain value concerns (surprise, surprise) sexuality. Even being kissed is portrayed as immoral! The girl's behaviour is very confusing to me. In life either you are attracted to someone or not. It seems unclear if she was attracted to Jared or wasn't.
Did she like the kissing and thought it sinful or was she simply not enjoying it? The message seems to be very puritanical though - kissing is a sin, as it leads to unholy urges. This suppression of the body, of our natural expression of love seems to be one of the greatest sin of Christianity.
The greater "sin", to me, is shown in first scene of the film, its lietmotif, the obscenely expensive diamond ring Grace is fixated on receiving.
To a really spiritual person this doesn't matter. That's not what Jesus taught.
What disturbed me more, was the contempt and aggresivity shown by Grace's exemplary Christain father to the estate agent. Again, would Jesus approve? Where's the true Christian love and compassion gone?
The lesson here is that the blind observance of some rules, called religion, is a long distance from spirituality, from true reflection. The world we're presented with is black and white. Every non-Christian here is grotesue, idiotic or violent.
The saddest thing in the movie is the mother, cut off from her feminine intuition and wisdom, blindly following her husband's judgemets, she has thoughtlessly formed her daughter to be her replica: once married, she will just switch her father's authority to her husband's and will bring up her daughter in the same fashion.
Dear Christians, please kindly ask yourselves: is your religion actually really helping you to love everybody? Are you the uniting or dividing force in the world...? Always double-check your values. Dig deeper.
Oh, and the last thing. The inclusion of the lighthearted shooting competition scene deeply disturbed me. Christian values? Hello?
Absolutely beautiful!!!
edmondsonalicia22 July 2023
Absolutely beautiful!!!! Those words don't even begin to describe this heart warming christian love story. The way it is suppose to be. Love the courting as apposed to dating. Getting to know the whole person and their family verses only know that one person. Knowing how the whole family is and their dynamic will help you understand the person. Our families and experiences with our families determine who we are as adults. And if your husband/wife can see why you maybe the way you are would go a long way to help you understand them. Love is not a word that you just throw around, it has deep meaning. When I say I love you, then you know I love you no matter what. Wonderful to have a good clean christian movie to watch. We don't need cussing to get a point across.
Princess Cut
jaybernieschoep18 June 2022
Very good movie produced. The producer made a great movie. It is a movie teaching and showing us both guys and women alike about using the Bible to teach us who we should be when God let's us know when we can start looking for that special someone. Internet dating is nothing but a scam.
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