Justmehere
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It is a really well done movie. I’d watch it again if I could. I would recommend going to see it with a friend.
Unlike some Christians movies, they finally do it right. The Christians are all messed up. The main character of this true story, Bart, is not idealized, and Christians are not the heroes, God is the hero. It’s a humble movie, which is good.
There are some pretty funny scenes. There are also deeply emotional moving scenes. (Although I don’t know how it would hit people who are not Christians.) It wasn’t preachy, no sinners prayer. It was about a father and son wrestling with forgiveness.
The begining showed very PG but still realistic scenes of child abuse that made the audience gasp. Like a plate being broken over the head of Bart as a teenager. It’s not graphic, but hearing the audience gasp was hard. I was like... uh.... I lived this....
For me, the voice of the Bart’s father, the abusive one, reminded me so much of a family member of mine, I broke out in a sweat. It passed quickly.
I’ve read a lot of the true story behind it all, and they did the movie well.
The majority of the movie is Bart wrestling with forgiving his father. Scenes in that process brought me to tears. I’m dealing with a lot of father related trauma and pain in therapy at the moment... and it wrecked me. In good ways maybe?
It’s also confusing because... forgiveness doesn’t always mean reconciliation. It’s painful because it’s a true story - it’s painful to see a child abuser repeat so humbly of what they did to their adult son... and to face my reality where that’s not happening.
But it was a beautiful story.
Unlike some Christians movies, they finally do it right. The Christians are all messed up. The main character of this true story, Bart, is not idealized, and Christians are not the heroes, God is the hero. It’s a humble movie, which is good.
There are some pretty funny scenes. There are also deeply emotional moving scenes. (Although I don’t know how it would hit people who are not Christians.) It wasn’t preachy, no sinners prayer. It was about a father and son wrestling with forgiveness.
The begining showed very PG but still realistic scenes of child abuse that made the audience gasp. Like a plate being broken over the head of Bart as a teenager. It’s not graphic, but hearing the audience gasp was hard. I was like... uh.... I lived this....
For me, the voice of the Bart’s father, the abusive one, reminded me so much of a family member of mine, I broke out in a sweat. It passed quickly.
I’ve read a lot of the true story behind it all, and they did the movie well.
The majority of the movie is Bart wrestling with forgiving his father. Scenes in that process brought me to tears. I’m dealing with a lot of father related trauma and pain in therapy at the moment... and it wrecked me. In good ways maybe?
It’s also confusing because... forgiveness doesn’t always mean reconciliation. It’s painful because it’s a true story - it’s painful to see a child abuser repeat so humbly of what they did to their adult son... and to face my reality where that’s not happening.
But it was a beautiful story.
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