New Year’s Eve Movie Rant
So, I just finished watching Michael Scott’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, a wonderfully romantic film that pulls you in with its dreamy scenes and nice-looking people. Of course, in typical show-biz fashion, it’s pushing a worldview on you that is un-Biblical. I expect three responses at this point:
- But Warren Christie is cute!
- But Richard is so boring!
- But the ending is so sweet!
None of these in any way calm any of my concerns. Before you decide that I have gone off the deep end, remember that the world does not always attack head-on. Sometimes it merely shifts the dial slightly a few hundred times. The final direction is the same.
Note that from this point there will be spoilers. You have been warned. The movie is themed around a breaking down of relationships. While its peripheral themes (supposedly main themes) are Love, Christmas, Happiness, etc., the opening depicts a single-parent home, the middle consists of an uncle and a stranger who make the poor woman lose all faith in her boyfriend, and the end depicts a lovely engagement breakup. I think all the girls should see this film! That last sentence, by the way, was sarcastic. Read the rest of this entry »
