{"id":1438,"date":"2016-12-10T10:37:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T10:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2016-12-10T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T23:03:09","slug":"good-film-may-faith-based-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2016\/12\/good-film-may-faith-based-film.html","title":{"rendered":"A good film may be a faith based film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the films I have seen, I have seen one per-cent faith-based films. It is not that many.<\/p>\n<p>Since I have watched so few, did I become tired of them? The answer to this is that I was \u2018raised\u2019 mostly on the mainstream fare. For a while, I did not know Christian films existed.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, I would not have easily accessed faith-based films in the mainstream because they were not there.<\/p>\n<p>When I got older, I went to where I could find them. \u00a0I have watched faith based films because they are faith-affirming, they affirm faith, or Christian faith is in the affirmative. I listen to Christian music for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the other films I have watched, few manage to touch on the faith theme as faith films do.<\/p>\n<p>Some things in faith films stand out more strongly than in other films I have watched. In those other films I might have to think more deeply about what they are about to find the essential theme. Those are the small challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Faith-based films tend to leave me with something of a take away point. They are easier to digest.<\/p>\n<p>I like most of the faith-based films I have watched except if the film\u2019s quality sunk it or it may have been too controversial.<\/p>\n<p>The best quality faith-based film I have watched is Christian documentary Gods of the New Age (1984) because it strikes me as authoritative, from content to narration. It\u2019s compelling. Some other recommends of faith-based films I have seen are Mother Teresa (1986), Romero (1989), and Son of God (2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the films I have seen, I have seen one per-cent faith-based films. It is not that many. Since I have watched so few, did I become tired of them? The answer to this is that I was \u2018raised\u2019 mostly on the mainstream fare. 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