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Please don't say God!
Tamara 2022-03-29 09:01:10
I have to say this is yet another movie about how God can change a person's life. The film blindly exaggerates the role of God in people's marriage and emotions. It simply uses God to change the character's disposition, lacking in-depth excavation of the characters' emotions, and a large number of lengthy preaching dialogues make people drowsy. The lack of in-depth descriptions of the characters' inner emotional changes is the biggest flaw of the film. For example, Holt has never understood his wife's feelings, and why his wife always loses his temper because of a little thing, and in the process of saving the marriage according to his father's "smart plan", the director never arranged for Holt to try to understand his wife. The plot of the. this point is very important. If he hadn't tried to get to know his wife, he wouldn't have understood what he had done before. If there is no remorse for what he has done before, how can he have a heart-wrenching realization? In the process, the director just let Holt gradually believe in God, then all he did to save his wife was to follow God's instructions, just like following the "smart plan" (in fact, it can also be regarded as God's instructions, because his parents were devout believers). We can’t help but ask: what changed Holt? If the answer is God, it is obviously not accepted by most people. What we need to see is a real change in a person's temperament, and the director just avoided this question and just used God to perfunctory. Perhaps, the director did this on purpose. Then this movie is not worth our tears, unless you are a believer.
Extended Reading
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Catherine Holt: What are you doing?
Caleb Holt: I see you left me no pizza.
Catherine Holt: Caleb, I just lit that candle. I like the way it smells.
Caleb Holt: Well, I don't! Did you leave me any dinner at all?
Catherine Holt: I assumed you were eating with Michael.
Caleb Holt: Does it not occur to you that there are two people living in this house and both of them need to eat?
Catherine Holt: You know what, Caleb, if you would communicate with me, maybe I can have something for you.
Caleb Holt: Why do you have to make everything so difficult?
Catherine Holt: Oh, I'm making everything difficult? Seems to me like I'm carrying the weight around here while you're off doing your own thing.
Caleb Holt: Excuse me? I'm the one working out there to pay this mortgage, and I pay for both of the cars.
Catherine Holt: Yeah, that's all you do! I pay for all of our bills with my salary!
Caleb Holt: Which you agreed to do. That's fair! Do you not like this house? Do you not like your car?
Catherine Holt: Oh, Caleb, who takes care of this house? Me! Who washes all the clothes? Me! Who gets all the groceries? Me! Not to mention that I'm helping my parents every weekend! You know I've got all this pressure on me, and the only thing you ever do for anybody is for yourself!
Caleb Holt: Let me tell you something: you don't know the first thing about pressure. All right, you think I put out house fires for myself? Or rush to car wrecks at 2AM for myself? Or pull a child's body out of a lake for myself? You have no idea what I go through!
Catherine Holt: Oh, yeah, but what do you do around here other than watch TV and waste time on the Internet? You know what? If looking at that trash is how you get fulfilled, that's fine, but I will not compete with it!
Caleb Holt: Well, I sure don't get it from you!
Catherine Holt: And you won't! Because you care more about saving for your stupid boat and pleasing yourself than you ever did about me!
Caleb Holt: SHUT UP! I'M SICK OF YOU! YOU DISRESPECTFUL, UNGRATEFUL, SELFISH WOMAN!
Catherine Holt: I'm not selfish...
Caleb Holt: HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO ME! YOU CONSTANTLY NAG ME AND YOU DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF ME! I'M TIRED OF IT! IF YOU CAN'T GIVE ME THE RESPECT I DESERVE... LOOK AT ME! THEN WHAT'S THE POINT OF THIS MARRIAGE?
Catherine Holt: I want out. I just want out.
Caleb Holt: If you want out, THAT'S FINE WITH ME!
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Latasha Brown: Honey, I agree with you. You gotta get out. He don't deserve you.
Deidra Harris: You can say that again. A real man's got to be a hero to his wife before he can be to anybody else, or he ain't a real man.
Ashley Phillips: Catherine, do you need a place to stay? I can't imagine living in the same house as that man.
Catherine Holt: No, I decided last night that I am not the one who's leaving. He's the problem, not me.
Deidra Harris: That's right, girl, stand your ground. Make him respect you. If there's one thing a man understands...
Caleb Holt: [Cuts to Caleb and Michael, discussing the same situation] ... .it's respect. That's the issue. That's the reason our marriage is failing. She shows me no respect at all. And the saddest part about it is...
Catherine Holt: [Cuts back to Catherine and her group of friends] He doesn't have a clue. He thinks our marriage has been fine for the most part. You know, he probably thinks...
Caleb Holt: [Cuts to Caleb and Michael] Our marriage has been fine until this year. Now all of a sudden she goes off the deep end.
Michael Simmons: Do you really think this happened all of a sudden?
Caleb Holt: I don't know what to think. I don't understand her. She's emotional about everything, she's easily offended, and way too sensitive.
Catherine Holt: [Cuts to Catherine, starting to sob] I mean, he's so insensitive. You know, he doesn't truly care how I feel, he doesn't listen to me. Even if I say it over and over and over again.
Caleb Holt: [Cuts to Caleb and Michael] And then she starts nagging me and saying I don't listen to her... or something like that. It drives me crazy. I feel like I'm going...
Catherine Holt: [Cuts to Catherine] Insane. You know, he doesn't understand my needs. It feels like we are completely and totally...
Caleb Holt: [Cuts to Caleb and Michael] Incompatible. She's probably whining to her friends, making me sound like a criminal. I can see them all right now: crying, having some sort of group hug.
Latasha Brown: [Cuts back to the women crowded around Catherine, comforting her, giving her a group hug] It's gonna be OK, sweetie. It's gonna be all right.
Ashley Phillips: You'll get through this.
Deidra Harris: We have your back. Whatever you want. Whatever you need. Whatever you need.
Michael Simmons: [Cuts to Caleb and Michael] So, you think it's past the point of no return?
Caleb Holt: I don't have a reason to return.