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The movie that touched me the most was the Notebook. I relate to this movie in so many ways. It tells the story of a time when life was quite and more laid back. How a love bloomed and lasted. This story could be about my parents. They as the characters met and fell in love as the people did in this movie. They fought for their love through many obstacles. My father loved my mother deeply. He cared for her through her illness of Lou Gehrig's disease.As in the movie the couple fought the obstacles of the Alzheimer's. No nursing home for my Dad's love. He cared for her till the end with the Lords help. He held her in his loving arms as she passed from this earth. Love like this doesn't come often, and few experience it. That is why I feel the Notebook is one of the best love stories of all time.
There is only one movie that I can't go without seeing at least once a year (and still cry everytime) and that's Steel Magnolias. I realize just how much my girlfriends, and I've lost 3 to cancer, mean to me along with my best friends, my sisters. One of my sisters has lost a child to a drunk driver and it's just like losing one of your own because we are such a close family. We grew up without a Mother, so we all depended on each other. Our Mother died when the 5 of us were all under the age of 8 and now we're all in our 50's, so hang on to the loves and friendships in your life because they only come around once in this lifetime of ours. God bless those who love one another.
"Tuesday with Morrie" is a movie which I, at 70 years of age, have viewed many times and retain in our movie(VHS & DVD) library. "Us" is just myself and my Mother, who is 91 years old and, thankfully, is in good health, active, in the church and community.
We both enjoy this story having bought the book first of all, and later seeing the movie with fine actors, and a good script. The storyline, is simple, as are the basics of life. The wonderful and heart touching conversations between the characters, the interplay of age and circumstance depict life on it's own terms, yet with a message of the value of each human being and of the worth of each soul. We all have so much to offer to one another, and in the sharing we are blessed beyond measure. I appreciate and honor this film and highly recommend it to family and friends.
Best Regards Bill Michau
1999 was a very difficult year for me. I had suffered the past four years of my life having my faith challenged from every direction. I decided I had had enough. That January I took Pascal’s Wager and turn it upside-down. I could not struggle with my faith any longer and gave up on God. Rather than spend a year trying to believe in God, I spent the next year trying not to believe. I stopped going to church. I stopped praying. I totally cut myself off from God. Then next January I figured I would reevaluate the year and see if my life were any worse because I no longer believed in God.
It was during this time I developed a fascination with religion and film. It is hard to say what exactly caused this. I am sure several factors were in play, but the largest of which was my growing dislike for my own world, and watching a film allowed me to live in another world, even if it was only for a couple of hours. I enjoyed dissecting this new world and finding what it was all about. I was in a totally fabricated universe made up by the director and enjoyed looking for God there, especially since I had given up looking for God in my own world.
November of that year Kevin Smith’s movie Dogma was released. A scene in that film hit me pretty hard. Two angels are talking and one is telling the other how humans are able to deny God’s existence and can go numb to the pain of not having Him in their lives… a privilege angels do not have. That is a privilege that I realized I did not have either. I had spent the year trying to deny God, but when it came down to it, I still believed.
God gave me a tremendous gift of faith and I could try to deny Him all I wanted, but could not really get away from Him. Dogma brought that to light for me. All I had accomplished in the past year was to get to know many false idols. I saw how my life had become filled with emptiness, and I did not like what that turned me into. I realize that I needed God in my life. Even if, for no other reason, than with God I am forced to try to see the world the way God sees it. Not focus on the negativity that happens, but rather all the potential for beauty and greatness there is. So, on Christmas Eve of 1999 I made my way to Church and confess a year’s worth of fleeing from God and thus in doing so lost the wager.
Nine year later I am in full time ministry and still look to the film Dogma as one on the main factors in my returning to faith. For that I will be forever grateful to Kevin Smith. I use Dogma and other films a lot in ministry because in my own life I have seen how God can use media challenge us to look beyond ourselves. When we do, we find God’s love in places we may never have expected.
"One NIGHT WITH THE KING",(peter o'toole, omar sharif) is by far, one of the most 'isnpirational, soul stirring, thought provoking movies I have viewed over and over again and continue to learn and SEE GOD'S
Sovereignty, and divine intervention, and how "HE'S ORDAINED HIS WORD since the very beginning and how HIS WORD-HE continues to perform HIS will through the hearts of men (and women). Through this story of Esther, "Seeing it" as portrayed in this movie, it ministered to me the meaning of the Scripture "The Heart of the King is in GOD'S Hands and He turns it whichever way HE wills! (PROVERBS) And HE shows MERCY/FAVOR to whom HE Chooses. If you are open to HIM, it also shows the "Intamacy, and TRUTH" the King desired from His Bride, and the Preperations before hand are paralell to the preperations that GOD desires of Us before we can come to HIS THRONE.( RE" the preperations of JESUS before He went to the CROSS and the FATHER) Although her heart was for her King,(as Queen) her total Devotion was to her GOD-(KING OF KINGS) and HIS people! which can be applied to today's political and 'religious' condition of the TIME! It was sooo-real and
every time I watch it, I get a 'touch' from GOD, Heart and Soul which is very hard to put into words as it is not a feeling. I suggest this movie to anyone/everyone as a learning, ministering tool for those seeking 'Truth and Intamacy' with their KING- whom is THE LORD OF HOSTS! It's revelation of Kingdom Reign and Authority has educational/historical value as well!
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