An Interview
with God by Ken Aguado
Eight out
of 10
An Interview
with God is a very interesting motion picture that has been – so far – ignored by
the critics and the public.
David Strathairn
plays a very good God that recalls for brief moments the performance of Morgan
Freeman in Bruce Almighty.
If Bruce
was a comedy, the Interview with God is a more serious affair, wherein the
deity agrees to an interview, after the journalist Paul Asher aka the talented
Brenton Thwaites prays.
God explains
that he thought the medium of an interview is best suited for a reporter, but
he has, like always, a more complex plan in mind.
This drama invites
the audience to think of major themes, indeed, there is little if anything more
important than the concept of God, what makes bad things happen to good people
and other pressing, vital questions.
The life of
the journalist is at a nadir, he is facing a crisis in his marriage that affects
everything else, to the point where he may collapse and engage in what is perhaps
the only thing that god would not forgive.
There are
three sessions, in which are organized in an interesting way, the dialogue and
the premise is smart, the reporter is not immediately buying the story that he is
talking to the Almighty.
Indeed, he
has some tests, including a difficult operation, multiplying 12,347 with 34,285
or something of the kind, even if he states later that this is the kind of
thing some humans can do.
When the
conversation becomes about the young journalist, he becomes angry, even
furious, for he complains that this is supposed to be an interview where he
gets answers and it is not about him.
Nevertheless,
the Omniscient One has an idea- actually, He is supposed to know everything –
about the turmoil, the calamity that might be waiting to happen and could
destroy the reporter.
God warns
the man that he has little time.
Aghast, the
interviewer feels this is a threat and does not see that this is actually God
trying to help him, make him understand that he is at a crossroads and free
will might take him to an abyss.
Alternatively,
he could see the danger and avoid the…void.
Different viewers
will look at this outré motion picture with a comprehending or accusing
perspective, depending on their religiosity, orthodoxism, liberal or atheistic
beliefs.
Nathaniel Branden,
genius, classic of psychology, and author of the chef d’oeuvre The Six Pillars
of Self- Esteem has a very negative opinion about religion.
In his
superb work The Psychological Effects of Religion, the professor warns about
the dramatic consequences that beliefs have, from the threatening, permanent
presence of a Supreme Being, ready to punish you for things you did as a child,
making you suffer for masturbating – for instance – many years back.
An
Interview with God is one of the rare gems, a thought provoking feature that
does not indoctrinate, advances challenging topics, without arrogance, with respect
and interesting message.
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