Redeeming Love

Wonderful film, makes us think, where is God, how many We have to shed tears so that he hears us and looks in our direction.The saddest thing is knowing that the world, the society we live in was built by men like the duke , despicable beings devoid of any emotion.America was baptized by the blood, sweat and tears of those who never had the right to enjoy its beauties.

One of my top five Romance movies

Surprisingly enjoyable, passionate film about redemption of the body through the soul. This isn't a Hallmark film that's cheaply made and thrown out into the market. I haven't read the original book, but the production quality and acting from up-and-coming stars like Logan Marshall-Green and Abigail Cowen steal the show. Sets looks great, cinematography is rich, and the film is paced decently even at it's 2+ hour runtime. Very bleak, taxing story that goes into some dark places; child prostitution, abortion, death, brothels, cheating, and more. It's a rewarding experience though.

I didn’t know what to expect at first but thought this movie was well worth the watch! Loosely based on the biblical story of Hosea, Thumbs up on this one!

The film was quite all right, though I found the depiction of prostitution a bit too troubling, it seemed to me that a little too much was shown for the genre of Christian film. The main character Angel had a really hard life and I felt sorry for her, but at the same time it was kind of silly of her to escape Michael numerous times in spite of his love for her.

I don't quite get the marriage thing since when Michael brings her to his home, he tells her he's married her the next day she wakes, and I don't know how it was done, since consent of both parties is needed for the marriage to be valid, and Angel was unconscious when he rescued her. Michael claims there are married though there is no further ceremony shown. Maybe this is explained in the novel the film is based on, but I missed this element.

I found the scene in which Michael washes Angel's feet quite moving, just like the one at the end when Paul asks her for forgiveness. The film ends with double happy ending as Angels starts a school for girls rescued from prostitution and finally comes back to Michael. She can also apparently have children in spite of her doubts in the matter. So it is all-round happy ending, and her going back to her real name Sarah symbolises the new start in her life.

I wonder how she got the money to start the school but it looks like the African-American man helped her? Was he the slave whom Michael freed?

_Redeeming Love_ is a touching and powerful drama based on the bestselling novel by Francine Rivers. A modernization of the biblical story of Hosea set in the Old West, a farmer, feeling lead by God, rescues a prostitute named Angel from a brothel and marries her, but she finds it hard to leave her life of prostitution behind and to accept the new life being offered to her. Starring Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Eric Dane, and Famke Janssen, the cast is pretty good and deliver strong performances. And director D.J. Caruso does an impressive job as well. Additionally, the film handles the material especially well; without being sexually exploitive or preachy. However, the pacing can be a little slow at times and a couple of the characters are underdeveloped. Yet despite having a few weaknesses, _Redeeming Love_ is a compelling story about love and forgiveness.

Who knew that Christian soft-porn was a thing?

There's a feedback loop here where the only people who would watch this would rate this very high on principle alone. It is one of the worst movies of 2022 so far, it is not what the rating suggests. This is a Christian movie aimed at Christian mothers who find love and romance in the real world a bit icky and hard to understand. This movie stands to reinforce their believes in a 'traditional' romance that never actually existed, and to teach the next generation the same.

This is a very simplistic story that states that it is based on the book of Hosea. Actually doing so would be narrative suicide. You can say many things about the Bible, but a "great story" isn't one of them. Hosea is an impenetrable mess of a story that is so unclear that no writer or actor could portray it. It uses a few verses here and there as some general plot points, then presents the truly horrific tale that Hosea actually is, in a positive light.

I say this, because this movie portrays itself as an intellectual Christian investigation of how love conquers all. It does this by citing the Bible to let you know that this is a movie that's not only safe to let your tortured daughter watch, but it's maybe something she should watch given that it must be educational.

This is a truly terrible movie, with underlying tones that are deeply unsettling. It's scarily misogynistic, and is a morality tale in that you should believe the opposite of whatever the main characters believe.

One very biblical thing to happen is that the protagonist, a prostitute, finds her estranged abusive father unwittingly becomes her client. Her reaction to this is to intentionally hate-fuck him, and give him a great time to punish him. How does this punish him? Because he finds out the morning after and kills himself due to shame.

As I said earlier, I can definitely see this as something a Christian mother lets her daughter watch when she's older to teach (shock) her into believing a good Christian girl shouldn't have sex or you'll turn into one of this filthy whores reviled by everyone and the right man is the man who loves and serves you - but refuses to have sex with you. After you're married this man, you may never divorce, because divorce leads to girls not having father figures who stop them from having sex. Without a father, girls turn into fifthly whores. Oh, and you might have to fuck your dad at some point, so best not to risk divorce just in case.

The only saving grace is that, as Owen Swart pointed out, many scenes, and the overlying romance, is softcore Christian porn. That daughter from earlier probably has this on DVD and watches it over and over, but not for the reason her mother thinks. After the initial confronting story, she'll certainly be filing a lot away in the wank bank for later. That will genuinely teach her more about herself than this movie ever will.