Posted on 12/01/2006 5:42:28 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
It will be worth your time!
You're welcome!
Media and critics hate this story. That why I cannot get enough of it. We don't need nasty critics to make a beautiful story a make or break for us.
Just from that pic alone I want to see the movie. Sounds good to me.
My husband and I wept thru most of Nativity Story.
It was fantastic and will make your Christmas truly
meaningful!
Every aspect of the Nativity Story was filmed and directed and dialogued and acted just perfectly, IMHO! They neither added or subtracted to the bare bones of this story - seeing that three wise men with passed-through-the-ages names are widely accepted).
The simplicity with which the story over all and specific scenes within it are shown forth is its greatest achievement.
In God's Good Grace I hope to purchase enough copies on DVD by next Christmas to send one to every person on my Christmas card list, as a testimony to them - worship unto the saved, witness to those who have not yet received the Greatest Gift Ever Given, amen.
We had to travel over an hour to get to a theatre where it was showing, and that was the case for the entire Christmas season. We were grateful it was playing in the state at all on the 26th, which is the date we were able to go. The friend I went with and I had the entire theatre to ourselves. While this means the movie is not making a great deal of money, and I would not have it that way, we were joyous to laugh and talk and cry and praise to our hearts' content aloud throughout the showing - a great gift which I've never had the pleasure to experience before!
Thank You, Good Giver our God, and thanks to New Line Cinema! Lord, bless them for this offerring, please, in Jesus Christ, to the increase of Thy Kingdom and Power and Glory in the earth, amen!
I liked it, too. I was disappointed that people here and, it seems, Christians in general, spent so much time quibbling over minor points. It was overall a beautiful meditation on the birth of Our Lord and also on the life of the Virgin and St. Joseph. The conditions of the time and place (domination by the Romans, Herod, etc.) were also very well depicted and gave me more insight in what it must have been like to live in that remote, unimportant little corner of the world, which was essentially nothing more than a tax farm to its rulers.
Of course, the fact that the powers that be went out of their way to prevent its advertising didn't help.
Incidentally, there's another movie that might be of interest to Christians. It's called Children of Men, and it deals with a future state-dominated society in which euthanasia is the norm and people have stopped bearing children. The society is dying. And then a young woman turns up pregnant...
It was supposed to be released in the US on Christmas Day. It's a United Artists film, directed by a high-profile director who specializes in action films. But suddenly its release was limited to about three theaters in the US, even though it got a 92% positive rating from Rotten Tomatoes. I wrote to United Artists to find out why, but I haven't heard anything.
In any case, your mention of the fact that you had to travel to get to The Nativity reminded me of this. I think one of the techniques used to "control" the good films that do get made is to restrict their showing, not advertise them very much, etc. This would have happened with The Passion, except that it caused so much advance interest that when they tried to prevent it from being shown, the attempt backfired and I think actually more people went to see it in the end.
Thank you so much; I had not heard of "Children of Men," either the movie or the book which preceded it. I will add it to my long list of movies that I want very much to see but have to wait for on DVD (for all the reasons you mention). God bless you.
That is a shame you had to drive an hour, but I'm glad you were able to see it. Happy New Year!
I agree!
I've been hoping that Christians would recommend the movie to other people.
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