Serious spoiler warning! Jesus save. Jesus save!

Kaylee 2022-04-10 08:01:01

Came back at night and watched "Tender Mercy" again, it's really a breathtaking story. The story begins with a middle-aged man in a motel who is struggling with self-conflict and overdrinking, begging for labor instead because he can't pay his room. The motel's wife, a young widow living alone with a young boy, agreed to the man's proposal, but asked not to drink alcohol at work. Then the two fell in love, the two got married, and the man quit drinking. As the story goes on, it is revealed that the man was originally a well-known musician who wrote and sang songs. Because he was living in the shadow of his powerful wife, he fell into a lost heart, committed suicide slowly with the help of alcohol, and finally divorced his singer wife. Married and lost custody of her daughter. After marrying the owner of the motel, the man tries to live a new life, and is revived in music by the encouragement of a group of amateurs. Just when his career and life almost have a new look, the male protagonist mac 's daughter shows up, and soon gets into tension with her mother for eloping with a boyfriend her mother disapproves of. The climax of the story is that just after he was able to successfully meet the daughter he had been looking forward to, he faced the blow of her daughter's death in a car accident. The end of the story is a game between a man and a little boy. He faced such a heavy blow and did not fall into alcohol dependence again, pointing to his own redemption with the help of his new wife and little boy. In fact, the motel's hostess and little boy are symbols of the Virgin Mary and the Lord. In the story, there are many scenes where the male protagonist is brought to the church by them. One time he sang: Jesus save. Jesus save, God save me, God save me! One was a christening done with a little boy. Especially after the scene of going to church for the second time, the little boy said that he felt that he did not feel like another person after being baptized. The male protagonist smiled and said: not yet. It is not yet. Faced with the misfortunes that come at any time in life, the screenwriter tries to tell people that only with a strong belief in "God save me", and a heart full of gratitude for God's "tender mercy", grasp every A person and things worthy of gratitude can carry forward life.

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Tender Mercies quotes

  • Dixie: [singing] We can't afford good wine or pink champagne, We ain't got no open fireplace flame, But we celebrate the happiness we've found, Every night in the best bedroom in town...

  • Dixie: [singing] I'll gladly be a fool, In love again, If there's a chance that you might see me, Touch me, want me never leave me, 'Cause I'm still goin' crazy over you, I'm never gettin' over you..