Review of The Apostle (1997) by Gloria S — 13 Apr 2010

I really like this movie. The Robert Duval, the character was given real problems and had to cope just like in real life. This movie mirrors Pentecostal Churches, Church of God in Christ Churches and Sanctified Churches Christian Faith, where preachers preach like that and people speak in tongues and dance in church.

Baptist Preachers also preaches like that, but people don't dance and speak in tongues. They do shout out in church though. These Christian faiths came from the Baptist Christian faith, when two Baptist Preachers founded and started them I think some time in 1600.

This movie was a product of the south and Duvall did a wonder portray in the role of this type of Christian Preacher. Duvall and the people in this movie were poor and uneducated. He was not coping well in his marital problem.

His reaction in solving his marital problem was selfish and disgraced him throughout the movie. I believe he meant well though. He lost his wife to another man, killed the man by accident, left town without explaining himself to his mother, abandoned his children and left all the responsibility up to his soon to be ex-wife, lead people to believe he might have died in an car accident, wasn't there to visit his mother in her last dying days, didn't attend his mother's funeral.

As holy as Duvall's character was in this movie, he ended up being a criminal.