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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Breakthrough (2019)

Let me start off by saying that despite the fact that this movie contains a song that was nominated for an Academy Award, it is not a really great movie.  The story is told in a very religious light, and if you are a person of faith who likes a good miracle story, this is definitely one for you.
Three boys are fooling around and doing things that they know they are not supposed to do. When a restaurant owner spots the boys out on a not quite frozen solid lake and yells for them to come to shore, they go further out, and then the inevitable happens.  The ice cracks and they fall in.  Two are rescued quickly but the third has sunk and it takes a good half hour to find him.  We have all heard stories about people who have been frozen without oxygen surviving relatively unscathed.  You are not dead until you are warm and dead has truth to it.  In this story it seems like it went a step further, where vital functions returned later than would have been considered reasonable to expect, followed by a lengthy coma.  The outcome of this is never in doubt, so it is all about how this experience changed people, all of it whipped up with faith, god, and the role of the clergy in intimate family life as well as the community.  The song, which doesn't come into play until the credits, is very good.

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