Rose Powell

I grew up in a church setting, and I knew youth pastors just like Robert Pattersons character... horrible things were done to myself, and many other good and decent people in that place. I can understand this plot deeper than most. The performance was impeccable from every actor involved. Pattersons Tennessee accent isn't so much southern Tennessee as it is eastern though, but the fact that a British actor got so close to the lilting nature of my home state was chilling. A lot of wackos came out of the Bible colleges here, a lot of good people too, but a lot of "delusional" wackos. I appreciated how it showed a man doing what's right, even if it doesn't seem like it from the outside, and righting the violence that trickles down for generations here in the south. I've had a friend hang himself on my birthday for crimes committed towards him by bible college wackos, and they said he was "delusional." This movie hit a little too close to home for me, and I can still feel the horrified look on my face thirty minutes after. Still, seat gripping performances all around. There are good Christians everywhere, like Arvin's grandma, and there are evil people who use the faith of others as a means to an end. I don’t think this movie was meant to bash Christianity, I think it's just showing how things are. I for one, am glad of the spotlight on it.