Thank you for the thoughts! My evangelical roots screamed at this movie. This movie has a lot of mature things to say about growth, freedom, autonomy and maturing. I think it says those things in a fairly mature way. In my prior worldview, I think this movie would be a problem for me, but as I watched this movie presently, I think I learned and reflected inwardly.
Thanks for this! I really liked the movie. I understand why this wasn't a universal experience but it really is a movie about freedom over one's own life, and I loved the movie's dedication to Bella's logical exploration of freedom. I want to read the old novel the movie was based on to see how it might differ from the movie
I saw this movie because of your blog post and thought very highly of your post and the movie itself. Stone gave a masterclass performance. My heart went out to her character Bella, who was continually blamed for things she was never fairly 'taught' about. The parenting and authority figures in her life treated her as an experiment and never as a human being who needs to be taught the proper meaning of love, safety, and empathy (both in the way that she is treated and in the way that the impoverished are treated late in the movie).
Thank you for the thoughts! My evangelical roots screamed at this movie. This movie has a lot of mature things to say about growth, freedom, autonomy and maturing. I think it says those things in a fairly mature way. In my prior worldview, I think this movie would be a problem for me, but as I watched this movie presently, I think I learned and reflected inwardly.
Thanks for this! I really liked the movie. I understand why this wasn't a universal experience but it really is a movie about freedom over one's own life, and I loved the movie's dedication to Bella's logical exploration of freedom. I want to read the old novel the movie was based on to see how it might differ from the movie
I saw this movie because of your blog post and thought very highly of your post and the movie itself. Stone gave a masterclass performance. My heart went out to her character Bella, who was continually blamed for things she was never fairly 'taught' about. The parenting and authority figures in her life treated her as an experiment and never as a human being who needs to be taught the proper meaning of love, safety, and empathy (both in the way that she is treated and in the way that the impoverished are treated late in the movie).