{"id":2581,"date":"2004-06-14T05:25:46","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T19:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/14\/saved\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:50:35","slug":"saved-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/14\/saved-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saved!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10834,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.savedmovie.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090919050432\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.savedmovie.com:80\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:09:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 21:57:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 21:57:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10835,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.suntimes.com\\\/output\\\/ebert1\\\/wkp-news-saved28f.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.suntimes.com\\\/output\\\/ebert1\\\/wkp-news-saved28f.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>As had been planned, Prairie and I went out to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savedmovie.com\/\" title=\"Saved!\">Saved!<\/a> on Saturday afternoon, and both really enjoyed it. Aside from a few moments towards the end where I felt it got a little overtly obvious with its message (falling into the &#8220;spell it out for the idiots&#8221; trap, essentially, the film did a good job of (fondly, believe it or not) satirizing the teen fundamentalist Christian scene to point out that tolerance and acceptance is really the bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, my favorite character was <em>easily<\/em> Cassandra &#8212; the sole Jewish student at a Christian school, there because she&#8217;s been expelled from every other school she&#8217;s been to, and constantly out to wreak havoc. Oh, and she&#8217;s really cute too, which didn&#8217;t hurt in the least. ;)<\/p>\n<p>Lots of cute lines throughout the film. While many people have been picking up at the obvious irony of Mandy Moore screeching out, &#8220;I am <em>filled<\/em> with Christ&#8217;s love!&#8221; while hurling a bible at Jenna Malone&#8217;s back, I&#8217;m actually a lot more partial to the next line. Jenna turns around, picks up the bible, and gives it back to Mandy while pointing out that, &#8220;This is not a weapon, you idiot!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many people aren&#8217;t going to enjoy the film as much as I did, unfortunately, especially if they lean more towards the closed-minded forms of &#8220;Christianity&#8221; that the film satirizes. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/ebert1\/wkp-news-saved28f.html\" title=\"Saved! ***1\/2\">as Roger Ebert points out in his review<\/a>, the film is &#8220;&#8230;arguing not against fundamentalism but against intolerance; it argues that Jesus would have embraced the cast-outs and the misfits, and might have leaned toward situational ethics instead of rigid morality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Strawberry Fields Forever (Raspberry Ripple)&#8221; by Candyflip from the album <em>Madstock&#8230;the Continuing Adventures of Bubblecar Fish<\/em> (1990, 5:54).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Roger Ebert points out in his review, the film is &#8216;&hellip;arguing not against fundamentalism but against intolerance; it argues that Jesus would have embraced the cast-outs and the misfits, and might have leaned toward situational ethics instead of rigid morality.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,103,2544],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-religion","tag-saved"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}