This is a really MOVING & really MEANINGFUL movie!!! Even my kids (ages 15 and 8) felt it deeply (and in a very good way) & it made for some great conversations afterwards!
I didn't know that a new "Hiding Place" movie was out! It was Providence that I even looked at going to the movies on a Saturday afternoon ~ esp not knowing what might be showing!
This movie was only playing in our area for two days and had only one show time (2pm) on both days! (We "just happened" to catch it's last showing!) I didn't buy tickets ahead (online) because I really didn't think there would be much competition for tickets ~ I was SHOCKED that it was completely SOLD OUT at the first theater we went to!!! And at the second theater there were only a few tickets left!!
Additionally, I wasn't sure how good it could be watch to a theatre production (a "play") on the big screen, so I didn't tell my kids that it was a theatre production until after we had seen it ~ They both said, with conviction, that it was very good!!!
Filming a play production and changing it into a movie format enables the viewer to see the internal depths of the main character while making it a more fluid experiemce with the benefits of movie editing.
The writers did an exceptional job of weaving together the struggles within the heart and soul of the lead character (Corrie Ten Boom) with what she was going thru in real-life while also adding the depth contained within the different preceding chapters and decades of her life as she recalled flashbacks of formative memories from her childhood years which equipped her as an adult (and the movie viewer) to understand her life's as it unfolded, and in the manner that it was meant to unfold! What an accomplishment of true wisdom and beauty!!!
I have seen the original Hiding Place movie as well as the more recent "Return to the Hiding Place" movie. (My teenagers and young adults particularly appreciate delving into the lives of the younger generation of Corrie's family as they entered into the family's mission in that well done, and much more recently created, sequel to the original "Hiding Place" movie.)
This production was a brilliant success and the most accessible form (yet) of sharing the impactful blessing of the life of Corrie Ten Boom with our generation!
I read her book years ago ~ but this brought all of it back so meaningfully!
