It's impossible to review Christian films because if yous're a believer you lot call back this is a great film with a groovy message. If you're a skeptic or an out and out atheist yous'll not view it kindly. Credit however should have gone to such items every bit Crash, Magnolia, and heaven forfend Boogie Nights because in terms of structure God'south Non Dead most closely resembles those films. There's a agglomeration of stories with people all interconnected somehow.
Only the main plot line involves young Shane Harper who is a Christian kid who is taking philosophy as an elective course. Instead of free academic soapbox we have Professor Kevin Sorbo right off the bat wants to accept his students declare God is dead. Harper is the 1 holdout and Sorbo substantially turns the class over to him, not for just one lecture, only for several periods where Harper has to become up and defend his faith.
Back in the 24-hour interval I had college professors, more often than not liberals to be certain, merely would never act like Kevin Sorbo does. Later on we learn in the film that he's got some deep issues.
As for Harper, he's told past the local pastor David A.R. White that this is an opportunity to go to bat for his faith. It would have been a lot easier to but driblet the course and take another elective. In fact Harper is such a devoted laic one wonders why he's non in some place like Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist University or Pat Robertson's Regent Academy. Especially the latter since they have a law school there with guaranteed employment in the Justice Department when a Republican administration is in power.
Equally we all know Kevin Sorbo showtime came to prominence portraying that most mythic of infidel heroes Hercules on television. Some other former television set superhero in this motion picture is former Superman Dean Cain who is a lawyer with one colossal ego. His part is almost a extravaganza, especially when his girlfriend tells him she'south got cancer. What a comfort Cain is to her.
Christian icons like Willie and Korie Robertson from Duck Dynasty brand an advent. The finale is a concert by that about noted Christian Stone group the Newsboys.
As a non-believer, not an anti-believer and in that location is a departure despite the position this film takes I'k not thoroughly trashing a task moderately well done. Why though the existence of a Creator/Deity is automatically significant that a fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity is necessarily valid. Or a literal interpretation of any religion for that matter. Harper even concedes that in that location was no literal 24/seven creation. I suspect that if he had tried to defend the Bible in a literal interpretation of the flood or Joshua stopping the dominicus, etc., things might have turned out differently.
One thing however did offend me greatly. David A.R. White is playing host to a visiting missionary from some unnamed African country. These are the same people who are currently pushing with glee and delight pogrom like laws against gay people in many African countries. Of form no mention of that in God'due south Not Expressionless, but I clinch y'all that any gay people who run into this film will mark it well for this colossal scrap of hubris.
Technically God's Non Dead is not a horrible picture, merely people depending on their indicate of view will react accordingly to information technology.
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