The Revival (2017)
1/10
Ignorant hate filled film
26 February 2020
It's a movie that is made almost entirely of ridiculous stereotypes coming from a place of ill feel better if I attack these people.

The basic premise of the movie is that there is a gay who hates gays. That is like a black person hating black people, it is illogical and doesn't truly make sense. Maybe they were going for misplaced hate because he truly hates himself for being gay be abuse he believes it's wrong so he takes it out on others but the movie doesn't hold that up. Then there is the idea that it's against his religion, but he is the pastor of the church. He is the leader of his religious community, so what religious figure is telling him it's wrong? Then towards the end there is a break through of sorts type of scene with really bad props and most characters would go one way and the entire movie leading up to that point says he'd go that way but he goes the opposite way. Clearly the other big religious person in the community regrets what happened, and the pastor is a sociopath. If that doesn't stereotype the south enough there is a man having a relationship with his first cousin. I've spoken to enough Christian religious leaders to know the reason why there aren't any bible quotes about homosexuality in that movie because there is only one that merely says you shouldn't have sex with men and it comes from the Old Testament where it also says you shouldn't eat pork but multiple religious men had multiple wives.

It's a movie that is made almost entirely of ridiculous stereotypes coming from a place of ill feel better if I attack these people.
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