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But Seriously Though... (SPOILERS)

posted 17 years ago by vyolet07
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This movie doesn't reflect on Christianity or any form of spirituality. This woman clearly had mental issues since the beginning of the movie starting with her flippant and somewhat destructive attitude towards sex. We as the viewers never "hear God" tell her to do anything she creates her own world and uses the christian religion as a vehicle to numb some deeper primary pain that the film never explores. The saddest thing is how towards the end her fanaticism leaves her just as vacant and empty as she was before.

However seriously she was so angry at God for her own actions (she had the free will to not kill her daughter) that she would choose not to go to heaven? And even after killing her daughter she saw her when she (Sharon) "died" so she knew that she ended up being alright. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't understand why she felt that she had the right to be angry? Even after committing that heinous act her child still communicated with her and then she went to heaven, so she was angry about what maybe the thing that drove her to her earlier destructive behaviour? Please someone explain it to me.

[–] SertumAEnigma 17 years ago

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't understand why she felt that she had the right to be angry? Even after committing that heinous act her child still communicated with her and then she went to heaven, so she was angry about what maybe the thing that drove her to her earlier destructive behaviour? Please someone explain it to me.

It was explained perfectly. She can devote her entire life to God and follow his "ways" or at the final moment of judgement "love him". Either way, the result will be the same.

The sheriff's deputy did not have to devote his entire life to God and he got into heaven just by "accepting him/loving him". She on the other hand spent years in the church and ultimately gave up all her worldly possessions and killed her child as devotion to him.

So in the end she realized that no matter what, she could get into heaven just by "accepting him" even at the final judgement. So why did she sacrifice everything for God?

She felt it was selffish that God would allow someone to endure such pain and devotion only to be asked in the end to "just love him". She did not have to devote her life to him. She did not have to give up her worldly possessions or kill her daughter.

She would have gotten into heaven by just "loving him" at the final judgement. She felt she proved herself, yet God accepts everyone anyway should they choose to love him.

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[–] movie_nazi 17 years ago

This woman clearly had mental issues since the beginning of the movie starting with her flippant and somewhat destructive attitude towards sex.

If the woman had mental issues then shouldn't she by default get into heaven? This is something I don't understand. If one is mentally unstable and cannot choose between right and wrong, arne't they suppose to go to heaven anyways? Then why is is that people cannot get into heaven if they commit suicide? Clearly anyone who would commit suicide is not mentally stable so shouldn't they be able to get into heaven?

It's just one of the many contradictions you find in the Christian religion.

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[–] The_Film_Cricket 17 years ago

I don't think she's mentally unstable, she's just lost. Her life is empty, there's not full-fillment until she gives her life to God. Sharon's sin is pride, she believes that since she's given over her life to God that he will turn her in the right direction and she misses the point that God asks us to be patient. By the end she's had it with God and that's why she chooses not to go to him across that ocean.

[–] fountainclown 16 years ago

Because god asked too much of her and then asked for more.
she had nothing left to give and felt justifiably angry and disapointed that all she had sacrificed was not enough.

This is it. This is the moment of your death.

[–] The_Film_Cricket 16 years ago

She approached God and made the assumption that what she put into the relationship would eventually come back out again. She assumed that she had received a sign from God to go to the desert and wait for him but this was a false assumption. She became frustrated because she thought he broke his promise, but it was a promise he didn't make.

[–] fountainclown 16 years ago

god makes promises to us everytime he tests faith - he just didnt give her back the same faith.

This is it. This is the moment of your death.

[–] red_rackham_77 16 years ago

Something was definately not right in the whole seeing that weird picture and so on, they were waiting in the desert for days and days and days then she decided not to wait and send her daughter and herself to Heaven but to kill herself would be a sin. Then the Rapture finally shows up, that was just all messed up. I am a free spirit, I trust God, Jesus and Mary, I don't accept the words of man.