I don't care this movie is a Christian movie. "Ben Hur" was also a "christian" movie, but first of all, it was a good movie. Majority of religious movies are tragedies, violent and sinister, as the Bible.
So, to make a positive religious movie is not easy. The risk is to be too cheesy or to seem dump and naive. "Letters to God" avoids these mistakes.
God is not really the subject of the story, we can watch the movie from an atheistic point of view : The letters are a medium to communicate with everybody and to make psychological analysis on self.
The life or death of the little boy is not either the subject. There is no "Hitchcock's suspense" to know if the little boy will win against cancer. This is not E.T.
The subject is "a positive use of religion by normal people". No miracles, no horrors, no super-action nor apocalypse. Just a kid who's teaching adults to be more "adult" to face life. Maybe some audiences are not adult enough to appreciate it, but the challenge is courageous and the movie well made. No need to be a believer to appreciate it.
I liked it.
So, to make a positive religious movie is not easy. The risk is to be too cheesy or to seem dump and naive. "Letters to God" avoids these mistakes.
God is not really the subject of the story, we can watch the movie from an atheistic point of view : The letters are a medium to communicate with everybody and to make psychological analysis on self.
The life or death of the little boy is not either the subject. There is no "Hitchcock's suspense" to know if the little boy will win against cancer. This is not E.T.
The subject is "a positive use of religion by normal people". No miracles, no horrors, no super-action nor apocalypse. Just a kid who's teaching adults to be more "adult" to face life. Maybe some audiences are not adult enough to appreciate it, but the challenge is courageous and the movie well made. No need to be a believer to appreciate it.
I liked it.