Review of Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi (2007) by Sunny B — 17 Feb 2008

An entertaining look into the life of Evangelical Christians. Though it's kind of obvious the film was a little bias by presenting most Christians "weird" and "out of control," but the film gave some great insight on the religion.

Though I'm not all that interested in the Christian religion whatsoever, it is also obvious the filmmaker and editor selected specific scenes that could embarrassed the church. Some scenes disturbed me somewhat -- mostly the scenes where the children and teenagers dances and raises their arms in the air, which was kind of frighten to me.

I did attend some church services during my life, and I also noticed some reacted in the same way. I always laughed and got amused by that. Overall, I'm not sure what audience group would be interested in this.

Christians might use it as a reference, while non-Christians use it a mid-week comedy special. For me, I picked the latter. I hope the filmmaker goes back and do a follow-up on the people she interviewed and mentioned.

It would be exciting to hear their reaction after their base lost the '06 Election.