
The characters in “Finding Faith” make a good ‘faith’ message movie. However, the movie is not perfect either. It does have good moments but it certainly does have a lot of the traditional faith movie cliches.
It’s ‘American Pur Flix’, both a veteran and a newcomer to the Faith movies Hollywood drama. For a while, the group “Pure Flix” was engaged in making the same films not dead god, not alive or unplated, or the case for Christ. Gradually, Pure Flix has found itself associated with lower budgets but not necessarily bad quality films that mix love for god with family values. However, the streaming aspect combined with Great America Media saw the company rebrand itself as Great America Pure Flix.
The newly appointed CEO of Great American Pure Flix, Bill Abbott, stated in an interview for Religion Unplugged that the goal is to acquire a significant number of providers, which in turn, would assist them in creating high-quality Pure Flix content. Their primary concern is expanding their reach through relevant content that would appeal to the broad audience of ‘Pure Flix.’ (Some of it seems to be working. I put one of their originals in my top 10 last year besides building films too). “This is normally the one that is under the radar of how many people really do want to work in this space and who are ready to put their names together with such product,” Abbott said.
“When they become adults and get married or have a strong desire to fulfill a social role, the young people who embody such an aspiration once have a turnaround and set their sights at pursuing a career and leaving a mark for themselves.”
In the above outline, it is clear that “Finding Faith” is one of the Great American Pure Flix movies under this vision. And even if the critics don’t appreciate the movie, the audacity of the director Zane and the cast in general to create such a piece where religion takes center stage must be commended. There are numerous unsolved controversies with the direction the movie took and with a lot of aspects, the film has gone downhill fast because of that movie that was produced by Great American Pure Flix.
In the cast, Ashley Bratcher leads as Faith, a column writer of Christian marriage tips who is a married woman, but slowly starts to renounce her religion because of certain events in her life that were caused by the breakdown of her marriage to a boy. She receives a phone call about her mother getting ill and decides to go back to see her and try to salvage her relationship with both God and her husband.
All and all, it is fair to say that the movie does have a great concept and idea of which it is written.
A Christian advice columnist has an enormous range of dramatic irony, be it telling her to mouth things she cannot practice or making other people laugh when she is going through a rough patch, who believes in building others around their faith comes as a struggle to her even though she tries hards herself. It isn’t all too unexpected for a Christian.
Every such Christian whom I’ve known and whose life has been to help others has faced faith crisis and sorrow in the process themselves which sometimes brings out their hypocritical nature. In a blurry way, this is also the goal of the Mother Teresa movie last year and such topics are good for faith-based movies to pursue.
Ashley Bratcher, who in film is the lead, is comfortable with the idea of having starred in the pro-life movie “Unplanned” which is the reason she enjoys a wide coverage from a Christian audience. She Vorreiter assumes that’s what the firm encompasses and its essence, the columnist’s character, and her other features can also be associated with that.
“I had some more discussions with her… She wants to do a lot, she wants to help many people. She is dealing with a lot of issues, trying to help people in their faith, having a family dynamic and marriage issues, mother’s gone and a miscarriage, things like that, and analyzing the cause of all this.”
It seems to me that this is the kind of question such as this, I believe all of us have asked at least once.’
Plus, when religion balances in a person’s life, all psychological problems disappear as if they were never there. And so all of this makes the movie so much more relatable as it shows the reality of marriage. Hope, faith, redemption, and marriage are centerpieces of the movie.
Bratcher has crudely stated that everything happens in a manner similar to other films she has worked on in the past characters experience pain, with a few flaws here and there.
Let’s look at my life for a moment, there have been days when I have experienced some of the same emotions you mentioned, she continued. From my understanding, it has been a significant amount of time, about two years or more as mentioned earlier, since you have acted. That’s none of my business as for the first two years I served as a thorn. These are not feel-good movies where everything works out well in the end. Life isn’t that straightforward. I always focus on how there is an opportunity for change. It just so happens that we have been quite active with Pure Flix and Great American and I’ve worked there a lot.
“My approach is unorthodox but here is a good example of how it contrasts with most of the typical Christian films, if you look at any of my past work, you will see that I have a slight edge.” “I fully concur that I have personally relished this performance.” Making the most of the “Finding Faith” tarnished legacy is typically how the film succeeds. It gives Faith and her husband an array of challenges that make them feel and look like a realistic married couple. Its marriage counseling scene featured some of the movie’s most effective frustrated banter. It’s the same when Faith and her father are shown as a rather ordinary father and daughter trying to sort through her divorce, his shocking past, and so on. One can easily say that the most authentic aspects of the life shown in the film emerged during events casting. John Schneider has such an ease in him that it makes him utterly believable including during the most over-stated comments.
When examined closely, such scenes offer a convenient explanation: some of his meetings with the filmmakers bear an uncanny resemblance to an age-old storyline in which ‘detached women from the city return to their roots in a quest for self-discovery.’
Unfortunately, this movie emphasizes its cliches stronger than its unique features and is more artificial than it is natural.
It is true that there are some gravitational unities which we might refer to as irony but then, this is again Victoria’s own words, the reason why she is not writing anymore The viewer hardly pays much attention to Victoria’s writing in the advice column since she writes only for the time she appears in the montage during the introduction, so there is a lack of distinction between her life and her writing.
But this time she did not need to so as to avoid paying retribution rather she needed to so as to avoid what could have been a gripping subplot of the clichéd narrative that has been done over two hundred times yeah that one plot in which Victoria is seen talking to her best friend during a calm afternoon about how she has gotten a lucrative opportunity and how she needs to concentrate.
Loads of these sorts of conversations tend and look quite staged indeed. As we can see, Victoria does not experience, after her reply expressing eye-rolling irritation at the clich辿s she is presented with by the pastor, the kind of cynicism a woman in her position should experience.
In Real Life, there is no such thing as a loving couple. But people might believe that there are affectionate couples in this world. In terms of how people talk, she behaves assistively and tries to be as detailed, almost code writer-like, as they are loose. All the relevant issues arise during the marriage, only when the filmmaker wishes to be scammed, the right question will be conveniently posed.
Even though it may be sad, it is evident that this kind of material is highly relevant in society as there is an absence of many stories that show Christian characters in a position of weakness.
This is all the more relevant since as Bratcher said starting a conversation with her non-Christian friends is one aspect of faith films she enjoys so much.
“I do. Of course, explaining how I have friends who are all types of people with many different beliefs around the spectrum,” Bratcher continued. “That’s where the tough life conversations come in as you mentioned people ask tough questions. Being able to provide a real answer can actually influence someone’s life. My aim is to show everybody Christ, but not in a rude ‘pulpit’ way. Rather in a kind way, I have been given what God has done for me. What about other people, who God had been able to achieve in their lives? The Bible is full of narratives about people whose lives were complete garbage and then God did something in their lives and used them. I think that every person should understand.”
In several respects, the movie appears to represent a revival, so to speak, of the golden era of the revolution in faith-based films.
The Kingdom Storybook Company is a good illustration of where the cinematography, music, and editing sections are crucial. I have a feeling that the company Great American Pure Flix will improve step by step. The film “Finding Faith” among the current church films already starts from a lower average in the production quality and this is expected of Pure Flix, isn’t it?
Alas, the film lives up to the expectations of the subscribers. For new audiences and potential subscribers, the movie is not a good enough reason to sign up for the platform now.
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