Film · A24 · 2017
First Reformed
54Watch it awake.
A serious film about despair in a church. Adults. Not a sermon and not a sneer.
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The review
A pastor is sick, the church is empty, and a young husband would rather die than bring a child into the world he sees. The film takes all three seriously. It does not mock the prayer or pretend that despair is a sacrament. Adults who have sat in a pew will recognize the quiet, and they should not watch it casually.
Not for teenagers. Do not let it be your only picture of a church. The charge is to notice the person who has stopped hoping, and to stay after the service.
Journal
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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Truman Show
66 instead of 54
The Truman Show is still a drama film, and it scores 66 instead of 54. What you gain is courage: He sails into the fear they built to keep him in.
The eight
- 6Industry
The pastor's work has shrunk to a museum church. He still does the visits.
- 3Household
A lost son, a failed marriage, a couple he cannot save.
- 7Piety
Prayer, the journal, and whether God is silent. That is the subject.
- 5Courage
He moves toward a terrible act and toward mercy. They are tangled.
- 6Republic
A church that has become a gift shop for a polluting patron. The compromise is named.
- 4Temperance
Despair is an appetite here. The film sits in it a long time.
- 8Truth
It will not give you a clean religious feeling or a clean political one.
- 4Stewardship
What he might hand on is a bomb or a mercy. The last minute holds both.
Where to watch
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