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Originally Posted by shellyboo
I so agree with this post. My son urged me the other night to watch the movie "Precious". He said he normally would of never watched this movie, but a good christian friend of his told him it was really touching. It was full of cussing, drugs, sex and physical abuse (all that this precious young girl named Precious had to face day in and day out). It broke my heart, I told my son that some of us church people are so isolated in our wonderful church services and perfect, blessed lives that we can easily forget about what so many face everyday. Maybe it wouldn't hurt any of us to make ourselves watch some of the realities other have to endure all the time. Maybe then we could get our priority right and stop worrying about meaningless things and start reaching a lost world. I want to do better.
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Language and plots help shape stories. Our house rule: if the movie/tv show is about something worthy, and it contains off-colors things as part of the story, then we discuss and consider watching. If it is only to glorify those debase things, which are no longer props to a story, but the entire point of the story, then we have better things to throw our minds in. There's plenty of entertainment that doesn't glory in sex, drugs and scandal. That doesn't mean a good movie won't have sex, drugs and scandal. Like NFS said, the Bible uses the same themes. Of course, the Biblical writers didn't just include those things for the sake of those things, but we're telling a story that pointed to an idea that was larger.
Good Will Hunting, for example. GREAT, GREAT MOVIE. However, it's full of curse words and the young man even fornicates. But that's not what the movie is about. The movie is about a young man overcoming the limitations of his environment (an environment that was accurately depicted through language and plots). The end result is a beautiful, riveting story that inspires us.
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