This movie title movie had been somewhere in the back
of my mind as a film to see. Earlier this year In Europe, I met a couple and
their two children who came from a town where this movie was made. I decided to
see it sometime soon.
The book was written in 2002. The movie was released on
April 16th, 2014. For some reason it did not seem to stay in
theatres for long. It would not surprise me to learn that they needed to make
room for The Wolf of Wall Street. In fact that the movie was made at all is
somewhat surprising.
Critics said that it did not have enough conflict or
drama. The father’s kidney stones and injured leg, the young boys appendicitis
are not gripping enough I suppose. Not enough drama to keep it in the theatres
either perhaps.
However, I like to see positive things as often as I
can and having met the Nebraskan family, I determined to see it as soon as I
could, despite that all I knew about it was the title. This week I bought a DVD
copy and have now seen it once by myself and again last night with a friend.
Because I have faith and believe in God, as does my
friend, I guess I am able to be encouraged and uplifted by this hopeful film
and it’s message that you have nothing to fear and no one will hurt you.
If nothing else, it seeks to demonstrate that beyond
ourselves is an afterlife, without time as we know it, and that those who have
predeceased us will meet us there. Maybe
an elderly aunt days before her death in 2000 had something when she was
speaking to a sibling who died as a child, that she would be there soon.
It does less harm to be hopeful about an afterlife but
also to enjoy the gift of the present fully while we are alive than think that
this may be all there is and that heaven and hell are here on earth.
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