Between The Walls
Movie Review
By Ben Kayser
Plot: Peter had a tough childhood. He grew up under the strict discipline of his Father who treated Peter more like a seminary student than a son. Peter rejected Christianity when he was young because of his Fathers inconsistent faith. Twelve years later his father is dead and Peter has five days to clean out his childhood home before the bank takes it. While cleaning the house out he discovers a locked room that is full of recording equipment and thousands of tapes. What was on these tapes? Everything he ever did in that house. Every lie that was spoken and every bad word he said about his dad was recorded. This rollercoaster ride brings Peter through the swirling emotions of hate and anger toward his father. Will he forgive his father? Or will he let his anger destroy him?
Morals: There were several great messages in this film. The main one being that we need to forgive one another just as Christ forgave us. The second message is that God uses bad situations for our spiritual growth. As far as I could see they were theologically dead on.
Technical Aspects
Acting: The acting started off slow, but progressed as the movie went on. I don’t necessarily blame that on the actors because the problems were more with the dialogue. Some of it seemed awkward and unnatural. But that was mainly just in the beginning. The actor that played their part impressively was Peters father who was played by Scott Davis. You cared for him at some parts and he creped you out in others.
Conclusion: I really enjoyed this movie. The story was intriguing and suspenseful at parts. One thing I appreciated was that they were not ashamed of talking about hell. Many people like to wash right over that and forget the Bible ever mentions it. But they made sure they covered Grace also in the movie. I will be looking forward to Chris and Nick Starons next movie, which is a comedy called “Brining Up Bobby”.
http://www.bringingupbobby.com/
2 comments:
Creped me out too, even though I've never seen the movie, sounds like a good one to me though.
Well, the only crepey thing about Between the Walls, after having seen it, was the way that one guy was always doing this smirk. Other than that and most of the cassette tape cases were empty, it was a good low-budget film.
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