Review of Blue Like Jazz (2012) by Nick D — 16 Apr 2012
A coming-out coming-of-age story, Blue Like Jazz overachieves on a shoe string budget and word of mouth publicity. Don Miller bravely lets himself be portrayed in all his youthful foolishness as a poseur, a hypocrite, a phony.
He's a fake Christian, a fake intellectual, a fake hipster, and a fake friend. But watching his friend Penny genuinely love "the least of these" in Portland and around the world, Don ultimately learns to love like Jesus commanded.
The film builds to a painfully but beautifully honest finale in which Don and "the Pope" turn confession on its head, and Don begins to make amends for all his dishonesty and unkindness. I recognized real life in this film, and I recognized myself, and I left inspired to love more honestly.
This review of Blue Like Jazz (2012) was written by Nick D on 16 Apr 2012.
Blue Like Jazz has generally received mixed reviews.
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