Are You Fireproof?

Tiitle: Fireproof
Actors: Kirk Cameron, Erin Bethea, Ken Bevel
Director: Alex Kendrick
Release Date: 26 September 2008


Okay.

Disclaimer -- This is a religious, very Christian movie, so if that will bother you, feel free to skip this entry. You won't hurt my feelings.

This movie is obviously about marriage and the challenge of making it work, especially when one of you is working all the time and doing everything while the other works sometimes and watches porn on free time.

Obviously, this is a serious issue.

Even more obvious, because it is a Christian movie, it is a beyond serious issue.

So what do we do?

The couple isn't completely to blame. Most little girls dreams of perfect marriage because her parents had such a good relationship. But they are children; this kind of marriage exists only in fairy tales any more. So, her expectations of marriage deteriorate and fall to pieces, but it requires work on both sides. Otherwise, divorce becomes a realistic option.

Once divorce is brought into the conversation, they begin to verbally argue because neither of them sees themselves as being "broken",  but one of them has to be in the wrong.
     This seems to affect the man the most because we see  more of him and his thought process than the woman. As a Christian, he claims that God wouldn't want them divorced because it wasn't in His plan.  But as he prays, he struggles, calling out "Where is God in my life?" and deciding that "God doesn't care about my problems."
    Thus, his dad hands him a book entitled "The Love Dare" - a 40 day plan to get your marriage spiritually right once more.

I'm not going to tell you the end because I'm pretty sure you can guess it on your own. It's not that hard.

The movie does bring up some interesting Christian thoughts:
     Is Jesus your crutch?
     Fireproof -- can you live through it? fires are going to come whether you like it or not? (eg. you can live through with fires with God)
     How can you love someone over and over again only to be met with rejection?
     Faith changes people -- obvious message seeing as its a Christian film and whatnot, but we know what we're walking into with the production company.
 
At least the neighbor, "Mr. Rudolph," adds something comedic because this is pretty intense.

It was alright. I can see why it's popular and powerful. I can see why The Love Dare is now a New York Times Best Seller book. I just think it would mean more if I had experienced marriage, but whatever. It really was an okay movie.

     (Courageous is better)