The Rapture
by Michael Tolkin
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Actor: David Duchovny, Mimi Rogers, Patrick Bauchau, Will PattonDirector: Michael Tolkin
Brand: NEW Line Home Video
Writer: Michael Tolkin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: N4908
Studio: New Line Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Rapture
DVD Review: TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE THAT IS THE QUESTION.
Summary: 3 Stars
As a born again Christian, the one thing I have learned from God is to be understanding of others. The opinions of the reviewers is just that opinions, as is mine. Mimi Roger, portraying a person struggling with the meaning of life, was very good. She being A SCIENTOLOGIST, would have a hidden agenda for acting in this movie. Religion is man made, God is real and the love He has for us is simply that. He gave man a conscience so that man could have the ability to make a choice between right and wrong. In this movie, I felt Mimi Rogers condenscension of belief in God from the very beginning. Yes, the sandal wearing, peace loving attitude she portrayed, is what a true believer feels upon salvation. That is because when Christ truly enters your heart, and might I add it is because you ask Him to, you see the world through His eyes, that of love. As you grow in your Christian faith, He delivers you from all the angst you carry around. For some it is immediate, for me it is through stages of growth and having a loving partnership with Him. Whether you believe or not, to me it makes sense to have this attitude towards the world than the one in which you live in cynicism, ignorance, and apathetic conclusions. If this film did nothing else it makes you want to figure out what is the answer. The character of Sharon wanted to believe there was something out there better than what she had. Well...look where her "belief" took her, into a clean living life with understanding and compassion for the world. She led others to a true saving knowledge of Jesus Christ especially the man she marries and has a beautiful child with. (HOW TERRIBLE THAT WAS) No where in the Bible does it state that becoming a christian guarantees a life without problems. Matter of fact it brings problems to your life because of the other entity called Satan. Yes, he is just as real and he controls the earthly realms of life. Nothing makes him angrier that someone giving up their life of sin to serve and believe in Jesus Christ. If the producer of this film had tried to bring this truth into the film rather than placing the blame totally on God, then viewers would have had a more legitimate claim to an opinion. As it were the character of Sharon did what a lot of people do who do not ground their faith in scripture, they look for the first thing they can to cast blame on anything other than looking at the flaws within themselves. The non believers who watched this film were vindicated in their opinions because they speak of which they do not know. The portrayal of the brain washing tatics of the character towards her daughter was true to an extent with some christians. But with those of us who read the bible and believe it as God's word, it was ludicrous. God would never tell you to kill your child, he hates murder. God would never tell you when He was coming, because he expects you to be ready whether you are eating, sleeping, or playing monopoly. He will not choose any special one above the other to reveal this too. He loves us all the same. As a christian I was not offended by this movie but at the blatant one sided opinion of God it portrayed. The character made her choices from the beginning. She CHOSE to live a sinful life, she chose to try something different, she chose to improve her life, she chose to end her daughters life, she chose to turn away from the truth. SHE RECEIVED HELL BECAUSE SHE CHOSE IT. Her daughter asks her do you see heaven, she says yes and chose to live in darkness because of an all too human trait, PRIDE. Pride is what Satan gives you in order to justify your feeling of being more intelligent than God. If you are standing as she was at a portal of living clean and free or dirty and trapped, why in the world would you choose the latter. Because Satan convinces you through pride and arrogance that you are smarter and better than such a simplistic choice of God. It all boiled down to faith, it always will. Either you have the faith to believe or you have the faith you are right to not believe. What a gracious God we have to give us that choice because even when you choose to not believe, he still loves you. As with any good parent, we love our children unconditionally even when they do something wrong. If that is the decision made we have to let them deal with the consequences, bad or good. That is what God does.
So laugh if you will at us Christians, choose to have an opinion on a subject you are not versed to speak or dare to stand up for yourself and find out what is real about God. A movie is just a story out of someones mind, an entertainment, take what that persons vision makes you feel and follow through with your own conclusions. After all you have nothing to lose but your soul. Just look at Sharon in the end. Scary.
Description of The Rapture
A Los Angeles telephone operator who tires of mate-swapping and turns to a religious sect for spiritual guidance.Once upon a time, in the 1980s and early 1990s, American independent movies did not seek to merely ape Hollywood formulas. They were more than just feature-length resumes for shrewd, enterprising filmmakers who had nothing to say, but dreamed of saying it with a big-studio budget. Back then, independent films provided a different kind of movie experience; they challenged and provoked audiences--and none more so than 1991's The Rapture, written and directed by Michael Tolkin, the man who wrote the screenplay for The Player, Robert Altman's scathing anti-Hollywood comedy. Mimi Rogers plays Sharon, a lost soul who gives up her hedonistic life of sex and drugs when she finds God and becomes a fundamentalist Christian fanatic. Her pilgrim's progress, presented in a deadpan, nonjudgmental style, culminates quite literally in the title event--the Second Coming, the Apocalypse, the end of the world, or whatever you want to call it. Rogers's fearless performance becomes all the more provocative when you recall that the actress is a lifelong member of the Church of Scientology. The Rapture is a mind-boggling, wildly ambitious movie that's open to myriad interpretations. But no matter what you make of it, it's sure to leave you engaged and shaken. --Jim Emerson
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