Conversation with God

 The film has many undeniably good ideas that have been fully implemented. But there are weaknesses and even obvious black holes that spoil the impression of acquaintance with history.

The idea is great, you can only welcome. It is both a philosophical parable, a moral lesson, and a religious sermon. And all this is strung on the main plot with a melodrama. (I know a much better film about forgiveness for treason, to which this one is not even suitable).

The attitude of the GG to God is rather strangely realized. On the one hand, he is not only a believer, but also a religiously educated person, he is a journalist on Christian topics. He asks God for help, finally communicates directly with Him, but continues to stubbornly doubt everything that is connected with Him. How deep his faith is, I still do not understand. It is only clear that, on the whole, he is a good guy who, in spite of everything, continues to turn to God with prayer out of habit.

In my opinion, the worst thing in this film is that he believes and does not believe in the reality of the GG's meeting with God at the same time. On the one hand, this meeting is important for him to satisfy his professional interest, and he enthusiastically uses it to the fullest. On the other hand, his personal desire to receive direct help from God is embodied in an amazing miraculous form, but he is extremely cold towards this accomplished fact. Unbelief is not presented here as a sufficiently justified skepticism, but faith does not seem like an experience of an obvious miracle. This dissonance is the worst in this film.

In the context of Christian preaching, many serious questions have been raised, for example, about human free will and God's providence. However, no definitive answers have been given to any of them. As for the divine providence, then in a specific particular case with the GG it is too obvious, and in essence imposes on a person the performance of certain actions. Biblical history knows cases of direct intervention of God in human affairs, but these were historically significant cases, not at all the same as with the main character.

His so-called problem on the personal front was of significant importance to him in the plot, but in reality this problem was only in his head and did not concern anyone else. The viewer is interested in it only as a human sympathy for the suffering of this character. And even then, the suffering these eggs are not worth a damn: “Ah! A girl left me! .. ”- as if a full-fledged man should reflect so desperately about a woman cheating on him. He needs to either forgive her from the heart, or decisively part, - both options will be correct. And here - she is to blame, but he blames himself, and is tormented ... A similar rag in unison to the protagonist is his boss, who also "su Conversation with God ffered severely" as a result of being abandoned by a woman. It’s even strange that successful Manhattan white collars should have such a “fine mental organization”.

In general, there is a lot of understatement and omissions in the relationship between the GG and his woman, but in fact, the details were not needed, the whole point was indicated quite fully.

I didn't like how the filmmakers constantly exhibited God in a somewhat ridiculous way, by endowing Him with the peculiarity of systematically answering a question with a question (and this despite the fact that in the first interview He ridiculed it with the help of an anecdote). In the future, God constantly turns any conversation into the plane he needs, not allowing the personal freedom of the journalist to be realized, not giving him a choice.

Honestly, the pile of abstruse theses from the mouth of God was more like not a live game of screen heroes, as a reflection of their real life, but an attempt to voice these theses for the satisfaction of the scriptwriter in how he personally understands them. It turned out like a detached reading of Our Father, like, “I know what is there and how in matters of Christianity”.

Conclusion. An excellent melodrama with a religious and philosophical overtones on the example of a single average American "white collar".

You see, this one

the deity is not only lacking shame; a lot makes you even assume

that the gods in general could learn a thing or two from us humans. We people -

F. Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil

The film came across to me by accident, and - I must warn you - I was skeptical from the very beginning. Spoiled by the classical ideals of critical thi

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