Has anyone heard of the pro-adoption/ anti-abortion film “Bella” ?
I am the opposite of a big movie fan, but I cannot rave enough about this film.* For those in the Northeast Mississippi area, we will probably buy it & show it to anyone who will sit still long enough. 
*
Christy and I saw it in Tupelo back in Decemeber. Be watching the web site for the DVD to come out.
The gist of the story:
A world class Hispanic soccer player has his career cut short tragic event ( if I tell you what cut the his career short, it would ruin part of the story). He is in the depths of feeling sorry for himself, and working as a chef at a restraunt. He meets a single, poor, ”messed up” waitress who has just found out she’s pregnant the same day she is fired from her job.
She has already made an appointment to “take care of it”. Most of the film is a day they spend together while he tries to convince her not to kill her baby.
What makes it so good.
Obviously, the pro-life/ pro-adoption message is the great thing about it. But, unlike many Christian/ pro-family films, it is a well written, well acted, very engrossing story with a moral theme/ lesson weaved seamlessly through it. Many Christian or pro-family films tend to be “preachy”, second-rate quality, or not a good enough story to keep people’s attention until they get the message.
*****************************
Geoff Botkin said that when he was converted in college — after being a committed, activist Marxist — he began to study what methods the Marxists had used to decieve and defile him & the culture. Hollywood films were one of the two chief means (government schools being the other).
I agree with Geoff that we must begin to create an alternative to corrupt, bankrupt Hollywood Babylon. This movie is a perfect example of what can be done.
While a very small percentage of it is good, I would challenge you to listen to the average “Christian music” today ( contemporary or Hymns) and if you listen to it with a critical ear, you will find nothing but a cheap, second-rate immitation of the popular music that the world discarded six months earlier.
Compare both secular & Christian “music” today to the works of Bach & Handel the difference becomes much more drastic.
The same could be said of art or literature.
While made by Catholics instead of Reformed, Evangelical, or Baptisit Christians — and certainly not perfect — Bella may be one of the first shots across the bow in the mainstream world that centralization, cultural Marxism, hedonism, and the death culture now have a legitimate, dangerous rival in the realm of decentralized, independant filmaking.
I highly recommend that you see this film if it is still showing in your area. If it is not, watch fot the DVD. It is well worth it. And when you see it, consider : a) what you might be able/ willing to do for an orphan or fatherless unborn child; b) consider how we must redouble our efforts to not only curse the darkness, but light a flame for our King in this troubled time.
Comments ?
Les Riley
The movie’s official web site :
http://www.bellamoviesite.com/site/#
And a review from Carolina Hope Adoption Blog :
http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/201
** If you get Gary Demar’s Biblical Worldview there is an excellent review in the print version, but it is not available online yet
