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Feb. 12, 2007
Movie Review
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A friend and I went to see The Last Sin Eater tonight (which I deeply regret, not because of the movie or the friend, but because my husband did not review Spenser's spelling words with him like I asked, and the city bee is tomorrow.) Proof once again that if you want something done... The movie was good. I love the book, although it is not my favorite Francine Rivers. Redeeming Love is quite possible the greatest Christian fiction novel of all time. But I digress... The Last Sin Eater is about a 10 year old girl who lives in the Appalachian mountains. She is "eat up" with guilt over the accidental death of her sister, and seeks absolution from the village "sin eater," a man who was chosen by lot to take the sins of the villagers (after their death) on himself, thus condemning his own soul to hell. When the man is unable to assuage her guilt with his ritual, she is filled with despair and attempts to kill herself. She is stopped by a stranger to their cove, who happens to be a Man of God. When he tries to share the Bible with her, she is unable to understand his churchy language, and unmoved by his words. He asks her why she attempted to end her life, and she tells him of her guilt. She explains that the sin eater was unable to take her sin because she is not yet dead. Relieved to have a way to connect with her, he explains that there was already a Sin Eater whom God sent who was in fact able to take away the guilt and absolve her of her sins. The story has several other threads that run through it that I won't try to explain here. It is a great story and a good movie. I wouldn't recommend it for children (it is rated PG13.) While the message is positive and the outcome is good, the story is creepy and some of the parts are violent. (Mostly offscreen but still disturbing.) |
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