This is the first time Guangyan Jun Zhenger's Eight Classics has written a film review of the main movie, and this year's movie list "War Room" is the first one to watch.
I didn't know anything about this movie before I watched it, and I even misunderstood that it was about war and peace. With such a prejudice, I was deeply attracted by this movie.
"War Room" is directed by Eric Kendrick. Many brothers and sisters may not be familiar with this director. Derek has directed many gospel movies in the main, such as "Courage", "Face the Giant", "Fireman" and so on.
At the same time, Derek is also a pastor of the Georgia Baptist Church. Since 1999, Derek has been using his gift of director. For Erics, the production of each film takes a year or more to prepare.
During this period, he will get inspiration from prayer and the process of seeking God. What he is looking for is not just a good idea, but a theme found through God's guidance.
This film mainly tells that Elizabeth, who is experiencing a marital crisis, meets Clara, an old Christian woman. Elizabeth is a real estate consultant, and Clara is about to sell her house.
Clara saw that Elizabeth was going through a crisis of marriage, and God moved Clara to help Elizabeth. With Clara's encouragement and help, Elizabeth started her own marriage defense battle.
After struggling and rebellious, Elizabeth slowly learned to obey in prayer and reading the scriptures. God changed Elizabeth, she began to truly care about her daughter, and began to watch and pray for her husband.
Elizabeth's husband, Tony, started as a representative of a pharmaceutical company, earning a lot of money and being among the various celebrities. It is precisely because of this decent job that he gradually lost respect for Elizabeth.
Tony didn't know anything about Elizabeth's prayer until a chance. Tony walked into Elizabeth's prayer room, saw his wife's prayer items, and felt his wife's changes. A family that was going to be broken was reconciled with prayer.
Many people may be the same as Koshio-kun, who will be "deceived" by the name of this movie at first.
The beginning of the film also tells about the war. When I was brainstorming the plot, the style of the film changed and it became an ordinary life plot. At the beginning of the film, through Clara's narration, we described the problems we experienced: our lives have become a war without gunpowder, and cracks have begun to appear between people. When we continue to look back, we find that our family is also in crisis.
In order to better understand the filming background of this movie, Mr. Guangyan checked the divorce rate of various countries on the Internet. Although he had a certain mental preparation, he was still shocked. The value of the divorce rate far exceeds our imagination!
According to statistics, in 2019 alone, there were 9.471 million registered marriages in China, while 4.154 million were divorced, and the divorce rate was as high as 43%. The situation in other countries is worse: the divorce rate in the United States: 53%, the divorce rate in Russia: 51%, the divorce rate in Belgium: 71%, the divorce rate in Portugal: 68%, the divorce rate in Sweden: 47%...
The divorce rate has only risen but not fallen in recent years, and the world is facing the same challenges and crises. In addition, there is an interesting phenomenon in the United States: People who get married often get divorced. About 41% of the first marriage failed, 60% of the second marriage, and the divorce rate of the third marriage reached 73%.
Decades ago, divorce was a rare event for families. In China, divorces of the older generation are basically rare. But in recent years, divorce has become commonplace, and divorce has also become a part of marriage.
But from the beginning of creation, God created man to create man and woman. Therefore, a person has to leave his parents and join his wife, and the two become one body. In this case, husband and wife are no longer two people, but one. Therefore, people who God cooperates must not be separated. "(Mark 10:6-9) The story background of "War Room" is undoubtedly a true portrayal of the current state of marriage. The Internet is full of various news and reports about marriage, and at the same time countless people are on the computer Search how to maintain a marriage....
This movie is a powerful answer! However, this film has a strong religious color, and spiritual issues are also discussed in many places in the film. So for most people, this film has become an obscure religious film.
The main line of the film is a family story centered on Elizabeth and Tony. Workplace, education, church life and other aspects are interspersed on this main line. Whether it is Elizabeth's powerlessness for marriage, or Tony's boredom and avoidance of marriage. They are all true portrayals of our deep understanding. Our friends and even ourselves are experiencing the hardships of marriage.
In real life, we are also looking for various ways: we keep communicating and arguing; we attend marriage courses and read related books; we consult seniors and search the Internet again and again...
But as Clara said in the movie, "We don’t know how to fight!" There is a plot in the movie where Elizabeth goes to Clara to ask how to maintain the marriage. Clara asks Elizabeth to write down her husband’s shortcomings and faults. After more than ten minutes Elizabeth wrote a few pages full.
Clara has not read any of it. She told Elizabeth: The enemy of marriage is not the husband or wife, but the devil (sin). Associating with real life, we constantly look for problems from each other, and even we constantly question ourselves: Can this marriage not be successful?
Clara took Elizabeth to a small and dark room and told Elizabeth that this was her favorite room. The name was "war room". Clara's war room was actually a prayer room. Will pray here. Prayer became the first and only thing Elizabeth had to do.
At first Elizabeth was obviously at a loss. She could not be quiet and could not pray sincerely. But in this way, God made her learn to obey and learn to wait. Elizabeth became a true "fighter". And this fighter successfully defended his marriage in the battle.
The biggest highlight of the film is Clara's unique insights on marriage, which of course is based on the Bible. Clara has learned how to maintain and nourish marriages during decades of married life.
Clara is a typical spiritual senior in the film, with a very mature life in many aspects such as faith, marriage, and life. Although Clara is an old man, she has a lively life.
Like to joke with Elizabeth, like to eat ice cream, like to sing hymns while doing things...
In the film, Mr. Guangyan likes a segment very much: At the end of the film, the couple who bought Clara's house happened to be a Christian, and the husband among them recognized the prayer room at first sight.
Many times God uses different people and different things to test us and shape us! "The War Room" mainly talks about marriage, but this film also talks about the importance of confidence.
"Jesus said, "It's because your faith is low. I tell you the truth, if you have faith, like a mustard seed, you just say to this mountain, "You move from here to there", and it will move too. Go; and there is nothing you cannot do." (Matthew 17:20)
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