Come What May
This is a very well done movie, the acting is superb, the pace is really smooth, and the story just draws you in. With that kind of intro you are probably expecting this to be a positive review, brace yourself, this is not. With all of the positives of this movie, it has many serious, and minor errors which I wish to explore with you.
OK, we start with one of the most glaring things, a lot of talk about purity and standards, but, no practice. First off, the girl, I forget her name, claims she is guarding her heart for marriage, then she chooses a guy to be her partner in school, she knows that she will be spending hours with this guy, alone, excuse me but is there something something wrong here? How is this going to help her remain pure? Second, this guy is always pushing her standards, always trying to see what she will let him get away with and so on. She is supposed to be remaining pure but she sleeps on the couch with the guy? What? Get real. She speaks of not giving her heart away yet it is very obvious she has given it away to this guy. OK, this is a really nice christian girl and she likes the guy's Mom who believes in the opposite of everything that this girl does. The girl was claiming to be preparing to be a homemaker and wife yet she was training to be a lawyer, how will she ever have time for being a homemaker? One last thing on the girl, she serves sugary junk to everyone she likes, she acts like she likes them, but you kind of start to wonder ;).
Now for the boy. A perfect example of manhood, just the kind of guy I'd want my sister marrying... He is not a leader, he has no conviction about much of anything. He bends his beliefs to fit the situation. He pushes the girls limits constantly, always testing her limits instead of respecting them. To tell you the truth, in spite of him reading a Bible at the beginning, I didn't even know whether he was a Christian or not.
In the end the Mom becomes good, but never gets saved. Very disappointing in a Christian movie. You have an emotional experience and become good. What about salvation? You do not get to heaven by becoming good and nice. You must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved.
The only real bright spot in the whole movie is the boy's father, a really nice guy, with firm enough convictions to lose his job over them, he really seemed to be saved, though it never said so. That is one really hard thing with this movie, you get the impression it is a Christian film but really the script does little more than have references to praying, and occasionally someone is reading the Bible. This is a Christian movie, where is the gospel message? I don't think every Christian movie has to have a conversion scene or sermon in it, but you can still get the gospel message across in subtle ways, and for sure don't skip opportunities to throw a conversion scene in there like this movie does.
Well there you have it, my take on Come What May, if I missed something let me know.
This is a very well done movie, the acting is superb, the pace is really smooth, and the story just draws you in. With that kind of intro you are probably expecting this to be a positive review, brace yourself, this is not. With all of the positives of this movie, it has many serious, and minor errors which I wish to explore with you.
OK, we start with one of the most glaring things, a lot of talk about purity and standards, but, no practice. First off, the girl, I forget her name, claims she is guarding her heart for marriage, then she chooses a guy to be her partner in school, she knows that she will be spending hours with this guy, alone, excuse me but is there something something wrong here? How is this going to help her remain pure? Second, this guy is always pushing her standards, always trying to see what she will let him get away with and so on. She is supposed to be remaining pure but she sleeps on the couch with the guy? What? Get real. She speaks of not giving her heart away yet it is very obvious she has given it away to this guy. OK, this is a really nice christian girl and she likes the guy's Mom who believes in the opposite of everything that this girl does. The girl was claiming to be preparing to be a homemaker and wife yet she was training to be a lawyer, how will she ever have time for being a homemaker? One last thing on the girl, she serves sugary junk to everyone she likes, she acts like she likes them, but you kind of start to wonder ;).
Now for the boy. A perfect example of manhood, just the kind of guy I'd want my sister marrying... He is not a leader, he has no conviction about much of anything. He bends his beliefs to fit the situation. He pushes the girls limits constantly, always testing her limits instead of respecting them. To tell you the truth, in spite of him reading a Bible at the beginning, I didn't even know whether he was a Christian or not.
In the end the Mom becomes good, but never gets saved. Very disappointing in a Christian movie. You have an emotional experience and become good. What about salvation? You do not get to heaven by becoming good and nice. You must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved.
The only real bright spot in the whole movie is the boy's father, a really nice guy, with firm enough convictions to lose his job over them, he really seemed to be saved, though it never said so. That is one really hard thing with this movie, you get the impression it is a Christian film but really the script does little more than have references to praying, and occasionally someone is reading the Bible. This is a Christian movie, where is the gospel message? I don't think every Christian movie has to have a conversion scene or sermon in it, but you can still get the gospel message across in subtle ways, and for sure don't skip opportunities to throw a conversion scene in there like this movie does.
Well there you have it, my take on Come What May, if I missed something let me know.
2 comments:
Her name was Rachael:). Yes, I was really disappointed in this movie, too. I think the makers had heard and liked some good ideas about purity, but they didn't know how to put it into practice; the script didn't match the story as you said.
In Christ,
your loving sister,
Gretchen
I have never heard of this movie. (I'm never impressed with "Christian" movies, so I am quite out of the loop.) I'll have to keep my eye out for this.
I see that it is surrounding the issue of Roe v. Wade? How did that play out in the movie? Was it sound, or very wishy washy in their efforts?
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