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Movie Review: Save Me from Your Followers, Jesus
Summary: 5 Stars
Oh, what a great, great, GREAT movie!
Now I'm sure that a lot of born again Christians might not find this movie redeemable in any way because afterall, it is poking fun at the Christian faith, epecially the "born agains" and the "fundamentalists". But even before the movie came out, I found that group of people to be particularly entertaining, anyway.
There is a great line in this movie when the Mandy Moore (Hilary) character throws a Bible at the Jena Malone character (Mary) and Mary says to her, "This isn't a weapon..."
Wow. Wow oh wow oh wow...the Bible isn't a weapon and yet sooo many "good" Christians use it that way. They're all about being loving BUT they'll only love you if you believe EXACTLY like they do. They're all about forgiveness and compassion, but only after you grovel and beg for it. Now, I'm sure there are a lot of really wonderful Christians out there and if you're one of them drop me an email at.....what...did you honestly think I was gonna tell you? Yeah, sorry, guys but I did the "saved" things years ago...somehow I couldn't swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
Don't get me wrong. I love Jesus. I love his teachings. I think his teachings could totally transform the world. I just don't think it was his intention to be worshipped. Now, I could be wrong but if Jesus was truly "God" why would he get upset with that person when he said, "There is none good, but God alone." Why wouldn't he have said, "There is none good but me!"
Jesus was Divine...but so are you...so am I...we don't need a religion to follow to be worthy. Afterall, God created us in "His" Image and Likeness. We are not human beings who are having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. This is a very spiritual movie. Its message that everyone of us is redeemable is very powerful. That all "sin" is a mistake and we can always go to God for everything we could ever want or need no matter what because the divine has never ever once refused us. No matter if we're gay, or belong to another religion, or even if we don't belong to any religion. God is with us now and forever.
So, rent this movie or better yet, buy it. If you are a fundamentalist and it ruffles your feathers, good! Maybe you need to question your beliefs. Maybe you need to just follow the two commandments of Jesus (1) Love God with all your mind, heart and soul and (2) Love your neighbor as yourself because your neighbor is an expresion of God no matter what he/she may appear to be.
Spirit loves you...always has...always will...get this movie.
Movie Review: "I am filled with Christ love!"
Summary: 5 Stars
Rising from the ashes to become so much more than just another teen comedy, `Saved' proves itself to be one of the most well written and genuinely funny religious satires I've ever seen. Exposing religion for all the hypocrisy, this film may step on quite a few toes, but it's all in good fun and whether you want to agree or not, it's hard not to see the point.
When Mary (Jena Malone) hears that her boyfriend Dean (Chad Faust) is gay she's devastated. So devastated that she hallucinates Jesus has told her to `un-gay' her boyfriend. So she does this by forsaking her faith and sleeping with him, trying to force him straight. This only results in bad things for her boyfriend is still caught looking at gay porn and is sent to a rehab center and Mary is left pregnant and frightened for no one even knows she had sex.
Her best friend, Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore), proves herself to be less and friend and more a self-promoter as she uses Mary's situation to criticize and humiliate her. And then the new kid moves in, the new pastor's son Patrick (Patrick Fugit). Both Mary and Hilary like him, but it's apparent that he is after Mary, who while she likes him is keeping her distance for she doesn't want anyone to know of her pregnancy.
As Mary becomes more and more disgusted with her faith, mostly after realizing that the very `married' Pastor Skip (Martin Donovan) is dating her mother Lillian (Mary-Louise Parker), she starts exploring other beliefs only to find that nothing is working, but when a small group of kids find out she's pregnant and accept her she's finally at ease, at least for a little while.
The supporting cast includes Macaulay Culkin in one of his smartest roles in years as Roland, Hilary's handicapped brother, and Eva Amurri who plays the Cassandra, the rebel Jew who joins the Christian school after being expelled from everywhere else. Hilary has a special vendetta with her, trying her hardest to convert her with some hilarious results. The rest of the acting is strong as well, with Mandy Moore taking the most of my praise. She's impressed me before, and after watching her performance here I'm convinced she's one of our most talented cross-over stars!
`Saved' is smart and funny...funny because it's true, and it does a brilliant job of exposing most religion for the hypocrites they really are. I won't say all religion is corrupt, but most of it is.
Movie Review: Saved by "Saved"
Summary: 5 Stars
This gentle and very funny satire is the most positively Christian movie I have seen in years. This movie restored my faith and my sense of humor.
Mary (Jena Malone) belongs to the "Christian Jewels" led by Hillary Faye (Mandy Moore); a high school girl gang for Jesus. But, even though the "Jewels" mimic Christian ritual on the surface of their lives, they are not Christians in their hearts. Their hypocrisy is the source of much of the movie's comedy, but this hypocrisy is never confused with real Christianity.
Mary discovers that her boyfriend, Dean (Chad Faust) is gay. She believes that Jesus wants her to "cure" Dean, so she has sex with him. However, Dean is still gay and sent away to "Mercy House" and Mary discovers she is pregnant.
Enter Cassandra (Eve Amurri) and Roland (Macaulay Culkin) into Mary's life. Cassandra is the school's lone Jewish attendee. She is a hell raiser hoyden and her clashes with Hillary Faye are the pivot around which much of the comedy revolves. She is also a wise and loving human being. Roland is Hilary Faye's much-abused brother. He is irreverent, puckish, and wheelchair bound.
The comedy is fantastic. The scene where Roland is dancing in his wheelchair in the Mall only lasts several seconds, but I will never forget it. Cassandra speaks in tongues, but it is not the message her classmates want to hear--well, not the sort of message ALL her classmates want to hear.
These two "outcasts" find each other and nurture Mary through her pregancy. Principal Skip's son, Patrick (Patrick Fugit) falls in love with Mary. Dean, with his male partner, escapes from "Mercy House" to attend the school Prom. Dean is overjoyed to discover he is about to become a father. Add Mary's mother Lillian (Mary-Louise Parker) to this family mix, and Mary and her child become the center of a loving and supportive human circle. It is Mary, from her maternity hospital bed, who admits that she doesn't always know what Jesus wants, but she'll keep trying to figure it out.
The movie's point, underneath the mischievous and witty comedy, is about the importance of love. Love is the most powerful lesson Jesus taught, and it is sometimes the hardest to understand, which this movie so brilliantly and comically demonstrates.
Movie Review: Saved!
Summary: 5 Stars
Oh my, did I love Saved! It pushes the limits of all religious movies! I loved that!
The movie starts out where Dean and Mary are sharing secrets underwater and Dean shares he is gay! So Mary who passes out and wakes up thinking she sees Jesus decides that in order to save Dean from his gayness she needs to sleep with him. They end up sleeping together. When school starts she finds out Dean is send away to get the gayness out of him at another school for the "rejects". So Mary goes on life until she watches a movie with her mom and thinks she has cancer or so she hopes so that she is not pregnant! She goes to the Planned Parenthood and gets caught by Hillary Faye's brother (Culkin-who is great in this role!) and his new friend a school rebel who is "GASP" "a Jew" in an all Christian school! LOL So they think that she is either plotting to blow up Planned Parenthood or she herself is pregnant. So Culkin's now girlfriend tries and get Mary to spill the beans that she is pregnant and in doing so they become close and Hillary Faye goes on a "Saving" mission. To save Mary and Dean. Along the way the Principals son and Mary fall in love and soon help to convict Hillary Faye of a deed she blamed on Mary and her friend. Soon everyone finds out Mary is pregnant and they want to ship her away to get "better". Soon Hillary Faye has a breakdown at the dance that they expose her at in which Dean and his fellow "rejects" show up at which starts a problem with should they or shouldn't they be allowed to attend this dance.
In the end you will see if all the hyjinx comes to an end. You will love this movie if you love Satyrs and comedies. You will see the Principal is not as innocent as he seems himself!
The characters and plot are great! This is a movie that even my mom who goes to Church every Sunday loved! Watch this movie if you can laugh at it because it is a risky move on the movies part. I don't think many will be disappointed as it is a great movie!
Movie Review: Unfortunately, it's somewhat true!
Summary: 5 Stars
I went to a high school very similar to the one portrayed in SAVED. Obviously this is an exaggerated portrayal, but the underlying commentary is fabulous. I was a Catholic girl at a Southern Baptist high school and was told constantly how sad it was that I wouldn't be in heaven. Hilary Faye, anyone?
Mandy Moore does a beautiful job of being a completely confused teenage girl who is trying to build herself up by pushing other people spiritually down. She's absolutely hateable, pitiable, and in the end, almost likeable.
Jena Malone is unbelievable. I had never seen her before, but she absolutely stole my heart. Her character Mary is a wonderfully written girl who tries to do what she thinks is right, but it goes all wrong. Jena's acting was beautiful, and I look forward to seeing more of her work.
The supporting cast was phenomenal as well. Macaulay Culkin does a wonderful job as Hilary Faye's brother Roland, a boy stuck at a Christian school who wants something more. Patrick Fugit is the ultimate romantic teen lead as Pastor Skip's son Patrick: he's not airbrushed, he's not a pretty-boy, and he's not wearing eyeliner. He's just the sweet, genuine boy-next-door, and you love him for it. (He also does not overact, which would have been incredibly easy to do in his role.) Eva Amurri plays a very real character as well: she's the Jewish girl at the Christian school, and she's sick and tired of people trying to "save" her. She just wants to be who she is.
Other remarkable actors include Chad Faust as Mary's boyfriend Dean, Mary-Louise Parker as Mary's mother, and Heather Matarazzo as Tia, a girl who's eager to fit in with Hilary Faye.
As a Christian, I was not offended by this movie. I thought it was a very well-done commentary on typical human behavior. Religion is fine, but don't use it as a crutch, and don't lord it over other people.