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Tonight, I watched a movie titled: The Shack. Below is a link that describes the movie.
It’s worth the effort to find & watch it.
I’m curious what others thought about the movie.
I liked it. It has a spiritual & religious theme. But not connect to a specific church.
The following quote comes from my review of the book in 2010. https://forum.staylds.com/viewtopic.php?p=22818&hilit=the+shack#p22818 Roy wrote:
“The Shack” is an easy, thought provoking, read.I was given a copy of “The Shack” while trying to come to grips with the assumptive world collapse that was triggered by the stillbirth of my daughter, Emory. I think my fledgling assumptive world is less filled with guilt in part because of this book.
In the past the Trinity had been a disqualifier for me. Whatever any other church had, they were wrong about the Trinity, and if they were wrong about the nature of God they could be wrong about anything. At first I had a similar reaction to the Trinitarian viewpoint presented in this book. But over time it started to grow on me and I could look past the differences to glean some precious truths that were needful for me at that time.
I am reminded of a Sunstone Article about Heavenly Mother. The article concluded that the lack of clarity about Her allows Heavenly Mother to take whatever form that might be most helpful in the mind of the individual. Perhaps the Trinity, as it is presented in The Shack, has more flexibility to suite the needs of the individual than the Body of flesh and Bones, Perfected Man, Godhead that I am more familiar with.
I suppose my only complaint (and this might not be a big deal to others), is how God played such a crucial role in the discovery of the girl’s body and the eventual arrest of the perpetrator. I felt like if God could intervene at that point, then why not earlier when the little girl’s life might have been spared or perhaps spared any other little girls that might have been victimized during the past year.
I think that the author did that to show that the main character’s “shack” experience was more than just a dream, more than just something of personal significance for him, but a miraculous experience that allowed him to know things that couldn’t have been known otherwise. For me this became a distraction from the better miracle – that miracle of forgiveness and letting go, the miracle of seeing beyond our own pain to meaningfully touch the lives of others. I would have been happier if the book had ended on this note, without the nice little “case closed” package that was also included.
I noticed that the movie changed the ending that I had complained about. Summary from wikipedia:
Quote:With his faith restored and a sense of peace, Mack prepares to leave the divine trio and return home. However, on the way, he is involved in a collision with the same truck he had earlier avoided and awakens in a hospital. His friend reveals that Mack never made it to the shack, having crashed on the way. Despite this, Mack believes the events he experienced were real.
In the aftermath, Mack opens up to Nan about his transformative experience and reassures Kate that the canoeing accident was not her fault. The film concludes with Mack rejoining his family at church, leaving the audience to ponder whether his journey to the shack was a spiritual encounter or a product of his imagination.
Mack is left to decide for himself if his experience was real or just the product of being in a coma. He decides that it was real and it is personally transformative for him.
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