Let me say that I'm not talking about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the title. I'm talking about four people, Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Clarence Gilyard, and Janaya Stephens who apparently out of all the people left on earth after the Rapture has occurred, have figured out who the anti-Christ is and what his intentions are.
There's a whole lot of theological debate out there as to whether the Rapture will even occur. But what that's supposed to be is at a given point all the true believing Christians and most of the children on this planet will all of a sudden vanish. What's happened is that God's taken them into heaven so they will avoid the coming events of the very last days on the planet.
For some reason these four have been Left Behind, but they've figured out what's going on. And the anti-Christ is none other than the Secretary-General of the United Nations. A guy named Karpathy who has a mittel-Europa accent popular in Hollywood films in the Thirties. The actor who plays him, Gordon Currie, does the best job in the film.
Brad Johnson and Janaya Stephens are father and daughter. His wife and son are among the raptured. Daughter is a rebellious college kid and Brad's been having an affair with stewardess Chelsea Noble. Brad's a pilot and he's heroic in a Jack Armstrong kind of way. Why a believing pastor like Clarence Gilyard's been left behind is a mystery to me, it surely isn't explained in the film. And Kirk Cameron just does not cut it as a cynical investigative reporter. Maybe I'm unfair, but I still see him as the kid from Growing Pains.
There's a problem with these kind of films as I see it besides the obvious one of that this is only one interpretation of what the last days will be like. Internationalism of any kind has always been an enemy to fundamentalism. The North American continent has NAFTA the European nations bind closer together from the Common Market up to the creation of the Euro Dollar, things like that are seen as evil.
Maybe I don't get it, but I always think that the more people talk the less likely they will fight. That's a good thing in my book. But if you think your belief system is the only true one in the world, you resist all forms of dialog. That's the logic behind this film and it's also the logic Al Queda operates with for their faith.
I've always thought that the Bible story that is the most insidious is the Tower of Babel. All people speaking a common language, working on a common goal even if it is to build a gigantic stratospheric tower. So God messes up languages to keep mankind forever apart. And as they come together, evil is supposed to happen.
I think the planet as a whole as more to fear from those left out as opposed to those left behind.
There's a whole lot of theological debate out there as to whether the Rapture will even occur. But what that's supposed to be is at a given point all the true believing Christians and most of the children on this planet will all of a sudden vanish. What's happened is that God's taken them into heaven so they will avoid the coming events of the very last days on the planet.
For some reason these four have been Left Behind, but they've figured out what's going on. And the anti-Christ is none other than the Secretary-General of the United Nations. A guy named Karpathy who has a mittel-Europa accent popular in Hollywood films in the Thirties. The actor who plays him, Gordon Currie, does the best job in the film.
Brad Johnson and Janaya Stephens are father and daughter. His wife and son are among the raptured. Daughter is a rebellious college kid and Brad's been having an affair with stewardess Chelsea Noble. Brad's a pilot and he's heroic in a Jack Armstrong kind of way. Why a believing pastor like Clarence Gilyard's been left behind is a mystery to me, it surely isn't explained in the film. And Kirk Cameron just does not cut it as a cynical investigative reporter. Maybe I'm unfair, but I still see him as the kid from Growing Pains.
There's a problem with these kind of films as I see it besides the obvious one of that this is only one interpretation of what the last days will be like. Internationalism of any kind has always been an enemy to fundamentalism. The North American continent has NAFTA the European nations bind closer together from the Common Market up to the creation of the Euro Dollar, things like that are seen as evil.
Maybe I don't get it, but I always think that the more people talk the less likely they will fight. That's a good thing in my book. But if you think your belief system is the only true one in the world, you resist all forms of dialog. That's the logic behind this film and it's also the logic Al Queda operates with for their faith.
I've always thought that the Bible story that is the most insidious is the Tower of Babel. All people speaking a common language, working on a common goal even if it is to build a gigantic stratospheric tower. So God messes up languages to keep mankind forever apart. And as they come together, evil is supposed to happen.
I think the planet as a whole as more to fear from those left out as opposed to those left behind.