Review of Father Stu (2022) by Tristanhemlock — 22 Sep 2022

This movie has everything to keep you interested from beginning to end. Focusing on one life, and how many lives that one life touched. The choices being made and their consequences. Some might look at the trailer and think this is a religious movie with a religious message.

But it anything but that. This is a movie about Stu, you, me, everyone. And how choices will always have consequences. You don't need to be religious to understand the message being given. You just have to believe in something, even if that something is you.

This is all about how you choose to relate to people, who you choose to love, hate, help, or turn your back on. It's also about how you choose to be remembered. Will you impact people's lives in a way they'll keep your memory alive long before you are gone? Or will you just fade from memory as a bad dream? The performances are rock solid, so you won't find any complaints there.

Each actor and actress brought their best, even those less known and less experienced. The story is relatable, simple to understand, and above all it isn't selling you anything. It's just telling you, watch and decide how much you take from this.

In these times where most movies are trying to tell you how to think or what to think, it's very refreshing to see a movie tell you to your face that your life is your own, but just because it's your own doesn't mean it will not affect other people along the way.

This movie is both about acceptance and how hard it can be to accept but how liberating it also is when you accept those things you can't understand or change. The best and worst part is that it's based on a true story.

Best because it will always leave you with something even if you don't see things in that specific perspective. And worst because it shows that people are becoming less than what people once were. How in more recent years we've lost so much in terms of being able to accept and just want to be accepted, to the point that now some can't content with acceptance and instead they want those that don't agree with them under their boot.

This is definitely a must see if you just want to relax, have some laughs, do some soul retrospective, and figure out where you are in life and if where you are is where you want to be.