Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Film You Should See Audience of One
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Last night, I watched a movie called Audience of One. It's not new or anything: It's a documentary from 2007 about a San Francisco church that decides to make a huge sci-fi movie to extol the glory of God. (God being the titular audience of one.) It's a pretty amazing documentary. Here's the trailer:
It's kind of the anti-Ed Wood. And it's important to note that this isn't a documentary that bashes Christians for being Christians; it's about a crazy person who doesn't know how to make a movie but has a bunch of unquestioning people who are willing to do anything they can—including traveling to Italy for no apparent reason at tremendous expense—to help him. But the single best thing about Audience of One is the ending. I'm not going to tell you what happens, but my jaw literally dropped when I came to the end. And today I've done a little more research into the church and discovered that the minister is still working on the movie. I really hope that one day there'll be an Audience of One Two.
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