5/29/2023 0 Comments Unconditional love movieAshley has a mother who has had an umpteenth number of boyfriends in a short frame of time, and she shuns personal connections by listening to her music, doing her makeup, and writing off any nice gestures as annoying interactions with people beneath her. The youth group is led by Sean Astin's Stuart and the kids are optimistic and nice-guy Steve (Kenton Duty), emotionally fragile Carrie (Sammi Hanratty), the smooth black guy Cooper (Terrence Hardy, Jr.), the game-addicted "Gameboy" (he's seriously never given a real name, played by Creagen Dow), and surly and disinterested Ashley (Savannah Jayde), whom is dragged by Stuart and his wife Beth (Fireproof's Erin Bethea) after learning of Ashley's unfortunate tribulations in life. Whenever we find ourselves truly involved with Hosea's story, we must resort to cutting back between a youth group and their leaders telling the story around a campfire only for one or more of the teenagers to make some stupid comment about what the characters should do in an unrealistic fashion using "hip" dialog. The point is, these frequent cuts during the primary story and attempts to develop a needless story arc distract and oversimplify the core material. To give an example, imagine if Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ opened, closed, and was frequently interrupted by people telling the story of Jesus's crucifixion around a campfire. Kids would just be confused.Īmazing Love: The Story of Hosea shows what happens when you have a lack of confidence in your idea of devoting a full-length film to a biblical character many are likely unfamiliar with, and instead, sacrifice its potential by including a needless story-arc that cheapens what should be your primary story. The plot deals with prostitution and adultery (none of it acted on-screen). Note that though this movie is clean and is based on scripture, I don't think it's suited for young children. I typically dislike Christian movies despite being a devout Christian, because they typically have terrible acting and cheesy dialogue, but the Hosea parts are different. If you want a clean flick that will make you think, this one's a keeper. This movie is deep and mature, while still having little sex, violence, or profanity, which is not the case of so much trash produced these days. It's worth sitting (or fast-forwarding) through the one plot to get to the other. The camping-teenagers scenes have cheesy dialogue and terrible acting. The Hosea scenes have excellent acting, beautiful scenery, and a deep and powerful plot. This film is basically two movies in one: the story of modern teenagers on a Christian retreat in the woods, and the story of Hosea's struggles with his wife and his people in the Old Testament.
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