God Grew Tired of Us

In the movie "God Grew Tired of Us," which was directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn and Tommy Walker, I had so many different emotions filling my mind. First off, seeing how the people living in Africa made me really think about my own living conditions and how I never really take a chance to think about how lucky I am to be living how I am in America. I seem to really take everything I have for granted.

Some of the creative techniques used in this movie are really more like involving and pulling on your heart strings to draw you into the movie and feel the emotions being tossed out to the audience. Different people would feel different emotions according to their own lifestyle and such. Maybe if someone were living in not such nice conditions, they would have a deeper understanding of the people living in Africa and feel more sympathy. But people living in better conditions may feel deep sympathy as well but not as much because they do not know how living in poor conditions may be like so they take things for granted and are arrogant in a sense that they don't really want to feel how the people in Africa are living.

Something that really hit me hard was the fact that these people still loved their families so much even with all that was going on and how they were living.

The point being made in the movie is basically saying that we really take everything for granted. Like electricity and such. Some people in different parts of the world are struggling to get through with the minimum that they have. But we have it so easy. Just a switch on of a light and we have it. Everything we take for granted so the movie is really trying to make us feel sympathy and point out that we need to start thinking more about what we have and appreciate it more.

Spiritually, there definitely was a spiritual view. What really made me feel the spiritual emphasis in the movie was when the boy, John, basically said "God grew tired of us." This made me really think. But really, God doesn't ever grow tired of us. He always loves us and will always do anything for us even to the point where he dies for us to forgive all of our sins.

I think this movie put its point across straight and made it very clear that we really need to start appreciating what we have more and take less for granted. I enjoyed the movie most definitely and I like that it made me think and pulled the spirituality out and made it strong in the movie and in me.

Rachel Cho

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