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What's Sad About this Movie...

posted 18 years ago by ijones-9
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...is that once Jerry decided to be truthful with people and tell them that he had actually seen and spoken to God, that everyone's initial reaction was that the man was insane? Had our world, even back in 1977, become so synical, that we could not even entertain the thought of God returning to earth and chosing to speak to us through one earthly representative? Have we as a people become so cold and jaded that the only possible explanation for what happened to Jerry was that he was crazy and needed to be locked up?

[–] rockstar78 18 years ago

yes....yes it has. I would blame the people that really ARE crazy.

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[–] Jack_1515 18 years ago

Maybe God just needed better writers...

[–] mtrusello 18 years ago

Re Jack 1515: Amen!!!

[–] brisco_4 18 years ago

You say "even back in 1977" as if it's just a few years after God appeared to Moses. It's only 29 years ago--people were just as skeptical and cynical then as they are now.

And let's not forget how cynical people were when Jesus went around claiming to be the son of God. Didn't they crucify him or something? That was almost 2,000 years ago.

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[–] starcommand 18 years ago

...Jesus went around claiming to be the son of God--

No, he most certainly did NOT make this claim; his followers did.

"Any lie will find believers as long as you tell it with force."

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[–] thedukeof90 18 years ago

The OP's remarks were the intentions of the film. That is how people would have reacted if someone had said they had seen and spoken to the Lord God. The reactions from when he tells people was the point of the movie. That although we may not always believe it- God is there.

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[–] caladon 18 years ago

In addition to the cynical reaction from the public, another aspect that stood out was the amazing and galling arrogance of not only the "Rev" Williams, but also Jerry's employer, who obviously believed that God would only choose to speak to the self annointed and rich. That kind of attitude can only be derived from posers who may own a Bible but, have obviously never bothered to read it.

[–] chcruz-1 17 years ago

You have to remember that Rev. Williams had an angle-getting rich off of his congregation.

[–] hskerfan 15 years ago

Even in the Bible, in Jesus' time, they wondered how a man like Jesus could speak and be doing what he's doing when they knew him as the son of a Carpenter. It's like the passage says, "Blessed are those that have not seen, but still believe".
The Evangelist character is interesting too because people believe because he is "holier than thou", when he says he talked to God, people hold him to his word, and he has a following. Yet a store manager of Food World, isn't believed to be the kind of person God would want to take the time to be with. ?

[–] weird_beard 10 years ago

So, if (for example) Mark 14:61-62 is a lie, why not just base your life on Chicken Soup for the Soul?

[–] lroy77 14 years ago

PLEASE don't say it's only 29 years ago. That makes me feel SO old (I was 15).

[–] stevenackerman69 15 years ago

Well, the fact that he described God as this old man probably added to it. It isn't like he said that God came to him as a talking bush, like in Ten Commandments.

[–] tomloft2000 15 years ago

one thing this movie does is take a shot at hypocrisy(largely in the form of Rev.Willie Williams).it also doesn't take sides with organized religion,since "God"does not claim any one is the right one.and on the subject of credibility- yes,you have to decide if the crazy one is the doctor or the patient.

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[–] Enrique-8 9 years ago

People have been skeptical and cynical since the beginning of time.

Enrique Sanchez