Often I am asked, “Phil, how can you put all those images in your mind?” Well, God has given me this job as a ministry, and I attempt to balance my work by spending a great deal of time in prayer, study of God’s word and communing with fellow believers. However, occasionally, I have felt the Holy Spirit nudging me to leave a screening that disturbed me. “Buddy Boy” is such a movie. It was difficult enough dealing with several explicit sexual situations depicting masturbation, gross-out behavior and obscene language. When the lead lost his temper and began violently cursing God, something inside said, “Leave,” and I did. A reviewer has an obligation to sit through a movie in search of some message. But when you are sure God is telling you to get out, you’d better get out. Knowing the film contains the above content, plus lots of profanity, obscenity, drunkenness and bizarre behavior (including a person masquerading as a woman and beating someone to death with her wooden foot), wouldn’t you agree that the film’s final message becomes moot? Up until the moment I left, this picture grieved my spirit. No message is worth that.
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