Many people have written and continue to write profound things about human quests to know God. This movie should not be mistaken for one of them. As Sarahrck observes, "religious themes are pretty minimal." The superficial telling of Arlen Faber's disconnect from the religious truths he is supposed to have discovered and shared with the world (of which we also get only a superficial glimpse) overwhelm what sweetness might otherwise be manifested in Arlen's falling in love with the utterly charming Elizabeth, and the stories of real people dealing with real problems, which Arlen so far has managed to avoid doing.
The movie tries to tell us something about human quests to know God by showing the discovery by someone who wrote a wildly popular book about human quests to know God that he had claimed to know more than he knew. It is pop religion once removed, sprinkled with romance to try to make it palatable.
The movie tries to tell us something about human quests to know God by showing the discovery by someone who wrote a wildly popular book about human quests to know God that he had claimed to know more than he knew. It is pop religion once removed, sprinkled with romance to try to make it palatable.