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quietearth [Film Festival 10.22.07] review

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This was a documentary about a Pentecostal Pastor in San Francisco who says that he a "vision from God" to make a huge scifi movie based on the biblical story of Joseph called "Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph". So they somehow scrounge up a few hundred thousand then make a production company called "Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks" which is staffed by mostly church members, including the pastor's own family. They design all the costumes, write the script, plan all the sets, and head off to Italy to shoot in this little munchkin mushroom house village. Somehow they are supposed to get all the shooting done within 5 days, but of course it doesn't work out. From there it just get's worse, they rent space from the city, then get evicted, they owe money all over town, but the pastor just keeps going. At the end of the movie he runs down an 8 point list of what the church will be doing, including, but not limited too:

1. Making 47 movies a year.
2. Having their own airline.
3. Going to space.
4. Having the first colony on another planet.


Now there were funny points in the movie, but I really have to say this broke my heart, it was really sad. This man is clearly sick, and the audience was laughing at him, clearly mocking him and his faith. I'll say it again, I was disgusted. This documentary was clearly put in the program to mock Christianity and for no other reason, because it was terrible. 5 out of 10.



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