The Bridge - Czech film

TinaLord68 · The Smiling T.L. Fan

The Bridge - Czech film

TinaLord68 · The Smiling T.L. Fan

Apparently no one has seen this film or there would have been comments.

Let me give the synopsis:

A man is in charge of bringing down a bridge for the train coming down the tracks. His son accidentally falls into the area with the mechanism that moves when the bridge comes down. So now the man has to pick between the lives of everyone on the train and his son's life.

It was a short film, and I couldn't watch. I had to leave. Heart wrenching to say the least.

The point was how God sent his only son to die for us....

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Does the church really need an emotionally manipulative film to make the point that they want people to remember that, in their church teachings, God sacrificed his son for the the betterment of mankind? I'd have walked out too.

TinaLord68 · The Smiling T.L. Fan

So I've been thinking, it really wasn't a fair comparison. God knew His son was going to come back to life in a few days.

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

God knew but He still had to watch his son being tortured...He sacrificed more as a parent then I ever could

TinaLord68 · The Smiling T.L. Fan

Yes but in the movie the father was going to lose his son and his son was not going to be reborn in 3 days. And he had to choose between a train full of people and his little boy.

As I said, I couldn't even watch it.

it really wasn't a true analogy IMO

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

I agree that its not

-- Edited by shellyinphx at 18:53, 2008-03-27

jessicad52178 · Jessica Almighty

Ack sounds like a sad one. I don't love the analogy either. I guess on the one hand at least there wasn't any sex or anything in it. Seems like it was kind of an effort at least to get a point across.

Sometimes those don't always go over so well though do they?

jessicad52178 · Jessica Almighty

I guess I see it as not being much of an analogy, because in Christ's case, he had the final choice. God may have sent him to Earth in order to die for our sins, but in teh end he also gave Jesus free will. It was that will, love, and compassion for us that saved us all. How can it possibly ben parallelled. I guess it can't.

That's the beauty and wonder of it all. nothing can ever come close. No movie can really get the enormity of it across. Granted if a movie is made with a completely God filled purpose and with a great moving of the spirit, it may help move people. It may minister to people in a way that they need. Unfortunately I've yet to see anything like that.