2/14/2023 0 Comments The testaments movie ldsBesides, the connection of the Nephites/Lamanites/(and all manner of "-ites") doesn't work. Seeing a bunch of white and Polynesian Mormons running around Mayan temples with with Mayan headdresses felt disrespectful to the Mayan, kind of like putting on blackface. To top off my discomfort, the makers of the film decided to place the film squarely into a Mayan context. I found the movie horribly distasteful and I didn't want to be associated with it. The Testaments manages to pound all subtlety to smithereens and send it out of screen with a sneeze. To say the music is heavy-handed would be an understatement. ![]() The movie plays the pain-of-lost-family card as much as it can to drive home the sense of fear and despair that is so crucial to the film. Then Jesus shows up in the sky, lands on the temple steps, and sets everything right. Helam's disappointment and pain over his son is only compounded when he loses his sight and can no longer hope to see Jesus in the flesh. Jacob eventually changes his mind after witnessing the murder of a prophet of God by Kohor's stooges. ![]() In the 33-year interlude, Helam has a family his wife has died and his son, Jacob, has become a rebellious pain in the ass who totally forsakes "the traditions of his fathers" in favor of a secular life in the court of evil Kohor. Helam sees the star of Bethlehem as a teen and sets his heart on one day seeing the Messiah. ![]() I cringed through the entire film wondering how in the world the LDS Church (a church considering itself to be led directly by Christ's own resurrected hand) dare produce such an embarrassment of a film. You know what shook my faith? The Testaments: Of One Fold and One Shepherd, that Church-made feature about Jesus' visit to the Nephites "somewhere in the Americas".
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