"A Call to Rebellion"
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What You Need To Know:
Though played as a comedy, the unskilled direction of the movie makes it a tedious endorsement of rebellion in pursuit of joy and freedom. The moral viewer cannot fault Al for wanting to have more joy in his life, but, as the Bible says, “In your anger, do not sin.” Al decides that the appropriate course for venting his discontent is sinning through avoiding responsibilities and committing legal and moral crimes. Furthermore, this movie contains two blatant attacks on the Christian faith. BOX OF MOONLIGHT will fade into obscurity, yet may stay long enough to offer an immoral alternative to a desperate man or teenager.
Content:
(ABAB, LLL, V, SS, NNN, A, D, M) Strong Anti-Christian worldview of achieving joy through avoiding responsibility & breaking the law including deliberate anti-Christian bigotry; 41 obscenities & 10 profanities; mild violence such as brief fist fight & destruction of property; implied adultery, implied fornication & brief phone sex; several images of full male nudity & women in bikinis, alcohol use; smoking; and, miscellaneous immorality including theft & deception
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Several years ago, a movie came out about a white American who had enough of getting the short end of the stick, and so he wreaked havoc on people and property around him. The movie was called FALLING DOWN, and it was treated as a serious drama.
In BOX OF MOONLIGHT, John Turturro plays Al Fountain, an uptight man who seeks to unwind by cavorting around with a juvenile delinquent, vandalizing property and committing adultery. Though played as a comedy, the unskilled direction of the movie makes it sometimes tedious endorsement of rebellion in ones pursuit of joy and freedom.
Al Fountain is a dutiful family man, an electrical engineer on a job far from his Chicago home. Shunned by his staff of workmen as an uptight fool, Al remains a loner during off hours. Lately, Al has been seeing visions of life moving backwards, such coffee pouring from the cup to the pot. He tries to consul himself with a phone sex call, but the operator doesn’t stimulate him. After one day of work, he gets word that the job has been canceled. Al sends his men home, but remains on the sight, telling his wife he is still working for another week.
Hoping to seek a little adventure, or at least some answers to life, he happens along a young man wearing a Daniel Boone outfit next to a broken down car. The man introduces himself as “The Kid” (Sam Rockwell), and Al tows “The Kid” back to “The Kid’s” home, one half of a mobile home in the woods decorated with stolen lawn ornaments and junk.
At first, Al is disgusted and repulsed by “The Kid’s” lifestyle, but soon “The Kid” and Al are stealing lawn ornaments, pilfering tomatoes, playing jokes on the police, and picking up women in supermarkets. Gradually, AL begins to loosen up and even tells his wife that he will be home later. Eventually, Al decides he has to return home, but not after committing adultery and learning how to feel better about himself.
The moral viewer cannot fault Al for wanting to have more joy in his life, nor being frustrated; however, as the Bible says, “In your anger, do not sin.” Al decides that the appropriate course for venting his discontent is sinning through avoiding responsibilities and committing legal and moral crimes. The movie resolves that Al is a better husband and father because of his experience with “The Kid”. This of course is absurd.
Al can only become a better person through Jesus Christ, but the movie never presents that Truth. In one scene, Al is walking along a lake and is met by a Christian couple who pry into his personal life and ask if he has found Jesus. Al says that he didn’t know Jesus was lost and later discovers through a television news report that this couple went on to commit a murder. On another occasion, Al and “The Kid” watch townspeople witness a “miracle” by claiming to see Jesus in a torn up poster on a billboard. Clearly, the writer/director has a cynical view towards Christians and their faith.
Movies such as BOX OF MOONLIGHT, FACE/OFF and NOWHERE contain anti-Christian material. They are the product of self-destructive filmmakers, because movies that support the Christian worldview make more money at the box office. Most moral Americans don’t need to be told to avoid these kind of movies. They just don’t go. Hence, BOX OF MOONLIGHT will fade into obscurity, yet may stay long enough to offer an immoral alternative to a desperate man or teenager.
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