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Saved!

Apparently, while the boys are away, I watch a lot of movies, and then post about them here. This will stop when the boys get back, I'm sure.
Today I watched "Saved!" which is about a teenaged girl (Mary) who finds her voice and wrestles with her faith. It's actually quite a funny movie. At the start of the movie she finds out her boyfriend is gay and she goes about trying to ungayify him and ends up pregnant. And she has a hypocritical, intolerant friend.
My favortite scenes were:
-when she's thinking she might be pregnant she watches this movie about a woman who had cancer and how she found out she had cancer. Movie lady had been throwing up every morning and had missed her period so she got a pregnancy test and found out she wasn't pregnant, she had cancer. And Mary says "You can find out all that from a pregnancy test?"
-when the 'bad' girl and wheelchair boy see her coming out of Planned parenthood, the girl says "There's only one reason a good Christian girl would be down here" and the boy says "To plant a pipe bomb?" and the girl replies "Well, two reasons"

What I thought was good about the movie was that it showed it is important to figure things out for yourself. It is important to ask questions. It is important not to take things at face value just because someone says it is so. That noone is 100% perfect. That everyone makes mistakes.
What I didn't like was that it seemed to indicate that making decisions is about what makes you happy. If you are miserable, it can't be God's will and if you are happy, it must be God's will. There are lots of things in life that people enjoy that do not line up with the Bible. I think our feelings are a very poor barometer for what God's will is or isn't.

posted by Aphra @ 12/30/2006 03:49:00 PM