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Marriage is a covenant and not a contract, and, in fact, the movie concludes with Caleb and Catherine reaffirming their vows to one another, not just as contract but as lifetime covenant and commitment. We stand together "for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health." This is the message that the message promotes. You can't step in and mess with either one of us and have us be singled out. No longer is it just "Carrie for Carrie" or "Jonathan for Jonathan." It is "Jonathan for Carrie and Jonathan under the headship of Christ" and Carrie is for the same thing. As the Bible says, when two people marry, they become one. That is really quite true on many levels. The message that Kirk Cameron delivers as the husband of Catherine is that HE is still husband to Catherine and he very much did not appreciate this third person interfering with the marriage relationship.
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In the movie, a third party tries to effect the marriage relationship by stealing the affections of Catherine. Marriage is about two people becoming one. But on the whole, we agreed with the message: Sometimes, as I mentioned before, as a result of bad acting we groaned (as Christians) wishing that things had been portrayed just a LITTLE differently. The movie does make some really solid statements about Christianity and its effect on marriage. In fact, I'm going to totally sidestep the issues surrounding divorce for the purpose of this movie review/discussion. I'm not here to get into a debate about marriage and divorce. It does take two to commit to that though. WITH Christ, it is possible to overcome any season of difficulty. The movie's heavy emphasis is that without Christ being present in a marriage, it is more likely to crumble. Sometimes the challenges that face a couple in a marriage are so overwhelming that you feel like you can't face them alone. It's an analogy that has sticking power because anyone who is married knows that marriage is not always a walk in the park. You stick together and work together to put the fire out. She doesn't respect him properly and he doesn't love her properly and they both want "out." If not for Caleb's father stepping into the picture and challenging Caleb to participate in a 40 day "love dare" to restore the communication and health to the relationship, Caleb and Catherine would have gone their separate ways.Īs Caleb is a fireman, the point is also made that in a fire you are never to leave your partner's side. The couple in this movie, Caleb and Catherine, have drifted apart from one another. The main message of Fireproof, in case you are still as I was, and rather clueless, is that marriage is worth fighting for. However, I also acknowledge that if people like me would go to the theatre to see movies like this, production companies would more easily take the point home that there is a large percentage of the population who want to go to the movies to be entertained in a clean and healthy way. I'm not saying that to pick on it (if you were one that told me to watch it!) but just sayin'. You can definitely tell that this was not a high budget film. And then we sat on it for months on end and finally decided to watch it.įirst up, I've got to say that the acting is almost hilarious at times.
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But when it came out on DVD we picked up a copy. Well, we're slow to get to movies and date nights don't consist of movies unless we really, really really want to see them. We understood that the movie did pretty well in theatres and that it "had a strong message in support of marriage." (This fact will not surprise Jennifer in the least.) When this movie hit the theatres, everyone we knew went to see it and told us how fabulous it was and how we should absolutely make a point to go and see it.
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Ok, so I know that Jonathan and I are really behind the times here, but we just watched the movie Fireproof the night before last. Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge (74).