I stumbled across this movie by accident and watched it not expecting a Christian movie... It was interesting how they didn't immediately throw God at you but worked up to it. I would have like them to give more mention to the Gospel however because the grave scene was kind of abrupt. But I'm sure the book does a better job of doing that.
I disagree with your assumption of what the movie's intention is - Being an athlete I saw the underlying theme that was trying to be portrayed which was that in the end what really matters, winning or taking whatever God gives you in life and honoring Him with it (i.e. the closing scenes). And on his interaction with the Utopians, yes the whole town thing was alittle weird but he was in the South where people are much nicer and relational which in hard for us northerners to understand
I stumbled across this movie by accident and watched it not expecting a Christian movie... It was interesting how they didn't immediately throw God at you but worked up to it. I would have like them to give more mention to the Gospel however because the grave scene was kind of abrupt. But I'm sure the book does a better job of doing that.
flattybell 2 months ago
I disagree with your assumption of what the movie's intention is - Being an athlete I saw the underlying theme that was trying to be portrayed which was that in the end what really matters, winning or taking whatever God gives you in life and honoring Him with it (i.e. the closing scenes). And on his interaction with the Utopians, yes the whole town thing was alittle weird but he was in the South where people are much nicer and relational which in hard for us northerners to understand
flattybell 2 months ago