Based on glowing reviews from a friend that this was a sad, but good, "Christian" movie, I let my 11-year old daughter watch this without first watching it myself- BIG MISTAKE. She came in my room after watching it, deeply traumatized and sobbing uncontrollably.
Can anyone clue me in on why it's called "Carry Me Home?" Is it just a play on words for the main character's name? Or is it supposed to imply some uplifting theme? I'm not seeing it.
Turns out the entire movie is a long string of awful events (dad dies in the war, mom dates a new man, neighbor's parents are drunks, Charlie is abused by Grizzle, forced to sleep in a barn, Charlie gruesomely bloodies up half his face, Grizzle killed Charlie's mother, Grizzle steals Charlie's puppies, Grizzle claims to be a Christian *nice bit of subtle Christian-bashing there*, Bernard shoots Grizzle with a gun, Carrie adds to Charlie's misery by stealing his puppy and taunting him, Charlie gets sent to a foster home in the end and can't take the one surviving puppy....) climaxing with the burning of a box of cute little puppies in a barn.... Wonderful story line! Why not add feeding those kids a big lump of frozen poison and forcing them to clean the streets with their tongues at midnight (ten minutes before bedtime) every night while you're at it? Why anyone would give this flick anything more than one star is beyond me.
Can anyone clue me in on why it's called "Carry Me Home?" Is it just a play on words for the main character's name? Or is it supposed to imply some uplifting theme? I'm not seeing it.
Turns out the entire movie is a long string of awful events (dad dies in the war, mom dates a new man, neighbor's parents are drunks, Charlie is abused by Grizzle, forced to sleep in a barn, Charlie gruesomely bloodies up half his face, Grizzle killed Charlie's mother, Grizzle steals Charlie's puppies, Grizzle claims to be a Christian *nice bit of subtle Christian-bashing there*, Bernard shoots Grizzle with a gun, Carrie adds to Charlie's misery by stealing his puppy and taunting him, Charlie gets sent to a foster home in the end and can't take the one surviving puppy....) climaxing with the burning of a box of cute little puppies in a barn.... Wonderful story line! Why not add feeding those kids a big lump of frozen poison and forcing them to clean the streets with their tongues at midnight (ten minutes before bedtime) every night while you're at it? Why anyone would give this flick anything more than one star is beyond me.