PROS
+ Great production quality and great actors.
+ The movie is very great in removing many psychological barriers. This implies the barrier for reconciliation after a very long time and distance, and especially to consider adoption instead of murder.
+ No problematic language or violence.
CONS
- A mix between superficiality, matched clothing styles and super-emotionalism.
- While the movie is very pleasant to watch and carries a very great message, it is far away from the Good Message of JESUS CHRIST.
We can certainly all agree that adoption is a considerable alternative, but have to ask ourselves if this is the plan A of the Bible, especially given the fact of its complete absence from it. Yes, it is true that not everything is stipulated in the Bible, but could we come to the same quintessence of the movie, specifically of David's advise to his sister, to simply think it over again based on his example?
This culmination of the movie in this worldly advise is problematic. It is one thing what David experienced in the past, but a whole other thing what he now makes out of that knowledge. He presented his sister literally the Good Message of his upbringing, but how much more important would it have been to present her not just a plan B, but the Good Message of JESUS CHRIST, which would include to first follow Him instead of her brother?
Without CHRIST she might eventually make the right decision, but it would rather be a product of chance if this would not result in a mother-child relationship, but also father-mother-child family.
What is presented here is beautiful, but if such an extreme situation of life is not being used in order to present the Good Message, then where should THEOS be allowed to work? This is the very tragic failure of the movie. It presented a plan B and laid it wonderfully out, but apart from some Christian undertones, the movie never proposed the wonderful plan A anywhere.
- The credits include the following:
St. Luke Methodist Church
St. Mark United Methodist Church
Grace Presbyterian Highland Community Church (Calvinist, false Gospel)
Focus on the Family
March for Life.
