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Let There Be Light

Yesterday I successfully completed another week without NFL football, and it’s almost getting easier. I am no longer even aware of the night games on Thursday, Sunday, and Monday, but Sunday day is still tough. This past Sunday we decided to go to a movie. What to see? What to see? As it was my turn to choose,  I googled “movies San Diego” to see what was around. I basically knew which movie I wanted to see, so I scrolled Google. There were 51 films and “Let There Be Light” was number 50 on the list.

For those of you not familiar with this film, it is a faith based movie, produced by Sean Hannity, so right away, the reviews and the publicity for the film will be marginal at best. In our local throw-away neighborhood paper, The Reader, the reviewer of movie basically said, “Sean Hannity was involved with this       movie . . . nuff said!” I did find a review in the New Yorker, and as is possibly typical for the New Yorker, I had to look up two of the words in the title of the review! (“A Xenophobic Morality Tale As Cynical As It Is Saccharine”). Anyway the New York City “elitist” reviewer did not especially like it –  no surprise here. He even went out of his way to take a swipe at Trump, even though the movie was completed before the election, and Trump’s name is not mentioned or alluded to in the film.

What was interesting was that even though the film is set in and was filmed in New York City, in its opening week, none of the movie theaters in any of the five New York City boroughs was showing the movie. If you wanted to see it during its opening week, you had to go to New Jersey.

We did find the movie at four theaters in the San Diego area, and we went to the 11:50 a.m. Sunday showing. We expected to be able to have our pick of seats once in the theater, but to my surprise, the theater was about 90% full . . . and this was in California! We did get two seats together, and people kept coming in all throughout the previews. Why was this the case? It was not raining. We’re all of these people in the theater also protesting NFL football? Was this some sort of protest against Hollywood -i.e. by wanting to go to a movie but not wanting to see a movie coming out of the ‘West Coast swamp’? Was this demonstrative of a desire by ordinary folk to see a Christian film? Was this because of Sean Hannity?

I don’t know the answer, but I do know that at noon on a beautiful San Diego day, the theater was practically full.

Anyway the film was okay, but not outstanding. With Sean Hannity’s name affiliated with the film, it could never be an Oscar nominee, but it is not Oscar quality anyway. The acting was okay. The plot was okay. It was a story of a world renowned atheist who had a life changing experience, and subsequently became a Christian. Without ruining it for you, I thought the ending was unexpected. There was humor and sadness sprinkled throughout, and at the conclusion of the film there was some applause from of the audience.

Am I glad I saw Let There Be Light  . . . Yes.

Did I survive another week without NFL football? . . . Yes!

 

 

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