We watched this over at Russ & Sarah’s the other day. It’s pretty much like the sweetest movie ever. “Tina, come get some ham!”
We watched this over at Russ & Sarah’s the other day. It’s pretty much like the sweetest movie ever. “Tina, come get some ham!”
I’ll keep the recommendation in mind. But the thing that impresses me the most is that the director’s wife’s name is Jerusha!
Don’t hear that much anymore, but it was the name of Jonathan Edwards’ daughter, who fell in love with David Brainerd and, while tending to the dying young missionary during the last 19 weeks of his life, contracted TB and died a few weeks later at the age of 17. Here is the very, very moving account of the incident from her father in The Life and Diary of David Brainerd:
On the morning of the next day, being Lord’s day, Oct. 4, as my daughter Jerusha (who chiefly attended him) came into the room, he looked on her very pleasantly, and said, “Dear Jerusha, are you willing to part with me?–I am quite willing to part with you: I am willing to part with all my friends: I am willing to part with my dear brother John, although I love him the best of any creature living: I have committed him and all my friends to God, and can leave them with God. Though, if I thought I should not see you and be happy with you in another world, I could not bear to part with you. But we shall spend a happy eternity together!” (Footnote: Since this, it has pleased a holy and sovereign God to take away this my dear child by death, on the 14th of February, next following, after a short illness of five days, in the eighteenth year of her age. She was a person of much the same spirit with Mr. Brainerd. She had constantly taken care of and attended him in his sickness, for nineteen weeks before his death; devoting herself to it with great delight, because she looked on him as an eminent servant of Jesus Christ. In this time he had much conversation with her on the things of religion; and in his dying state, often expressed to us, her parents, his great satisfaction concerning her true piety, and his confidence that he should meet her in heaven: and his high opinion of her, not only as a true Christian, but a very eminent saint: one whose soul was uncommonly fed and entertained with things that appertain to the most spiritual, experimental, and distinguishing parts of religion: and one who, by the temper of her mind, was fitted to deny herself for God, and to do good, beyond any young women whatsoever that he knew of. She had manifested a heart uncommonly devoted to God, in the course of her life, many years before her death: and said on her death-bed, that “she had not seen one minute for several years, wherein she desired to live one minute longer, for the sake of any other good in life, but doing good, living to God, and doing what might be for his glory.”) In the evening, as one came into the room with a Bible in her hand, he expressed himself thus; “Oh that dear book! that lovely book! I shall soon see it opened! the mysteries that are in it, and the mysteries of God’s providence, will be all unfolded!”
Ken,
I loved this film. Did you hang out and watch the ending *after* the credits? It’s the wedding of Napoleon’s brother and LaFawnDa….LOL.
That was a brilliant film.
I suggest Garden State: the movie and the soundtrack.
I also recently saw the Motorcycle Diaries…very good.
Alan,
Unfortunately, we totally missed it–that’s it, we’re just going to have to buy the movie.
Garden State: Good flick. We definitely had to see that given, well, the whole suburban NJ experience. I was also happy to see that the two best songs on the soundtrack were actually available on iTunes, which saved some money.
Haven’t seen Motorcycle Diaries, though–I’ll add that to the Netflix queue!
I really wasn’t very impressed with the movie. I went in expecting to enjoy it, and game out thinking that that was 1.5 hours of my life i will never get back.
The movie had so much potential, it just never got going. The only part I actually chuckled at was the use of the A-Team theme song
As Kristine Wilson put it, “I’ll only marry a man who can dance like Napolean.” Whatever the critics think the women have spoken. Girls like men with skills. You know, nunchaku skills, longbow skills, computer hacking skills. And if you can draw a liger, well that’s cool too.
> Jerusha
So yeah, the filmmakers are all Mormons.
I have to agree with Mike. It just didn’t click with me.
I did like the scene with the old dude aiming at the cow and shooting as the bus went by… But overall, it just felt bland and boring the whole way through. Never enough to make me turn it off… it just never really made me laugh.
Oh well.
Jerusha (je-ROO-shah) (Hebrew) “Married, a possession.” Biblical: the wife of King Uzziah. The name was used by James Michener for the missionary heroine in his novel “Hawaii.”
Joke in simpsons: Sign at book sale “Today’s Special: Michener $1.99 / Lb.”
The movie strikes an uncanny balance between absurdity and familiarity. Even though the characters have a large element of caricature, they still in the end are likeable and we see ourselves in them.