As a fellow Christian I will respond to this. I will admit, I anticipated Christians possibly being put in a negative light when Jessie and Roy were first seen on their mission trip, but a lot of the rest of what you said makes me wonder if you had your eyes open when you watched the movie.
1- to move the plot forward plain and simple, would you really want to watch the police search the entire ship looking for the reason he was killed, no. it moved the movie forward.
2-there are dirty cops in movies. that's clearly evident in almost any movie that involves cops. simple plot device used in more movies than i care to count.
3-"How could an upstanding Christian girl choose to be a smoker and risk damaging the temple that is her body, given to her by God?"----my father smokes. He's one of the most amazing Christians I know. Some people have their vices, my father started when he was 17--it's been hard for him to give up. I'll never smoke because it is repulsive and I want to live a long time, but don't make the assumption that anyone who smokes is a terrible person and a insincere Christian. In the movie, Jessie admitted she gave up her destructive habit of drinking.
4-This I will admit is a fault on her character. She reverted back to her old sinful ways when she was met with temptation. Carlos being Catholic has nothing to do with it. The way you worded this question makes it seem like it would have been okay for her to fornicate with someone else.
5-Again, Carlos being Catholic has nothing to do with it. She murdered him out of excessive self protection. A few strikes would have incapcitated him, she just went the extra mile in putting him down, a little excessive, but a part of me thought he deserved it.
6-I agree with you on this, it was just silly of him to miss the train, but it makes for the important plot twist. And it was Siberia, not Antartica, hence the title of the movie.
7-Can't answer that one, except maybe he picked up the drugs in China, after he arrived from Japan. And who's to say that they actually were from Japan. They were drug mules, lying is what they do.
8-Well, the "evil Catholic man" did what anyone who deals with drugs would, separate the product from the money. Why would you put all of it one bag? What if the bag gets stolen? You're out of product and your money. It makes compete sense.
9-Because they can. Plain and simple.
10-This is where I question whether you were watching the movie. She didn't have her legs cut off. She was just cut up. They scarred her and broke her foot.
Overall, the movie was ingtriguing. It showed the shortcomings of a flawed woman with a destructive past. I thought it was pretty clear that she wasn't really a Christian, just putting on the "good person persona". On the train, when they first met Abby and Carlos she makes a reference that they were there for Roy's church, she then corrected herself feeling she made a mistake. It was obvious she had demons from her past she wasn't rid of.
I'll admit she was a terrible person, but that's what the movie was about.
I don't feel it portrays all Christians negatively...just this one whom we're not sure was even really a Christian.
So, in the future, make sure you have your facts straight about a movie, before railing into it, so you don't appear to be nuts.
God Bless!
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AsHimself
15 years ago
1.Why would a guy with a knife in his head look at the place where he hid his money? DUH!
How do you know he looked on his own free will? Maybe the attacker put a knife to his head and told the guy to tell him where the drugs were, and while the victim looked in that direction, the attacker stabbed him. Maybe the attacker knew exactly where they were, knifed the guy by surprise, went to the secret compartment and the last thing the victim ever did was watch the attacker get the drugs? Who knows. Not sure why it's an implausible scene - just because the audience wasn't in on the details? Even the police didn't know.
2. How could a police officer who took an oath be involved with robbers? Kind of gives a new spin on the famous term "cops and robbers" don't it? DUH!
No, it's just f-ing Russia. In 2008, there were 12,000 officials accused of corruption. I read a news story recently about a prosecutor there who said income from corruption of government officials is roughly 1/3 of the entire Russian budget. Not sure you've paid attention to the past 2,500 years but corruption has been a theme in drama and poetry since the ancient Greeks.
3. How could an upstanding Christian girl choose to be a smoker and risk damaging the temple that is her body, given to her by God? DUH!
Why does any Christian at any point in history do anything that risks damaging the body? Human beings are flawed.
4. Furthermore, why would a nice Christian girl even attempt to fornicate with an obvious Catholic? DUH!
Are Catholics not Christian? Ever read about the fall of man in Genesis? How was this guy obviously a Catholic? I must have missed that. Let's assume he was. Why would an obvious Catholic attempt to covet his neighbor’s wife?
5. Finally, how could a nice Christian girl murder someone even though he was obviously a Catholic and probably deserved it? DUH!
The obvious Catholic probably deserved to be murdered but you're upset she killed him? That makes sense. One reason she killed him was that she found him beyond revolting and her suppressed-dangerous side, or whatever you want to call it, overruled rational action. I didn't see that being out of her character.
6. How could a smart upstanding young Christian man possibly miss a train in the middle of the Antarctic? DUH!
I don't know, why not ask Jesus why he arrived too late for Lazarus's funeral. And it's Arctic, not Antarctic - but it's not even Arctic because the TSR doesn't cross the Arctic circle.
7. How could a Spanish Catholic man smuggle obvious containers of illegal hard drugs over the Japanese border without raising any suspicion? DUH!
How many f-ing drugs are smuggled anywhere every two seconds? Geez. Is this for real?
8. Why would the evil Catholic man hide all his money on a dead body instead of in the good Christian girl's suitcase like he did with the toy animals? DUH!
I don't understand what the hell you're talking about. Mr. Evil Catholic hid his money on a dead body? Toy animals? They were Matryoshka dolls, and the guy hid his money when he was alive. What would you rather be caught with - legal cash or a suitcase full of heroin? Why the hell would you hide a ton of money in someone else's suitcase? So they can steal it themselves and get out of the country immediately?
9. Why would the robbers steal a train just because they wanted to harass and possibly torture the nice American Christian couple? DUH!
Yeah, they liked harassing and torturing nice Americans for no good reason. One of the pleasures of life.
10. How could a girl who had her legs cut off suddenly walk to the middle of nowhere to look for the money and the drugs? DOUBLE DUH!
Remember when her legs were NOT cut off, and she was listening to the bad guys say how they HAD the drugs and now they WANTED the money, and she begged Jessie to tell her where Carlos was so she could get the MONEY because the bad guys had the DRUGS?
I cannot believe you even watched this movie.
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ze_goose
13 years ago
Response to 5.
A few more strikes still and she could have decapitated him. A part of me felt she deserved the same. Hehe..
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