i watch the apostle two night ago and and i rent it partially out of guilt . i saw a film call the ice harvest that make me realize i want something a bit more inspiring and more wholesome and more spiritually focus in film . the ice harvest strangely enough also have billy bob thornton along with john cusack a some of the most profane and greedy but not nearly the most mess up character in a rural kansa town . sex and violence and the whole mix and and what bad and a sloppy end . so and i rent this because i want to be uplift . the apostle often deliver a brand of southern comfort and simplicity and humanity that quite refresh without be naive represent i think it be an important and sobering note that the old man who give duvall a tent also sleep with his rifle on his chest watch him . that combination be very human and very american represent we live at once in love and fear of each other very often . another wonderful thing about this film be it be race conscious but very much about integration and all god child like duvall say . i love the moment when blackwell tell duvall how black he sound on the radio for a white man . a for be inspire spiritually and i almost cry when duvall pray over billy bob and troublemaker . a a matter of fact and i think that moment be the spiritual high point of the film and the sinner convert another sinner and save a church . if we have immediately see the police come for duvall after that and it would have serve a a great coda to remind u that within sinner like billy and there be saint or good men and and within apostle like duvall and there be sinner . none of u be as pure a the driven snow and but none of our soul be so black that they can not be redeem . that one of the great thing about crash represent that be a film that show both corruption of the decent and the unexpected decency lie within the corrupt . the main problem with apostle and like ice harvest oddly enough and come down to a sloppy end . ( spoiler ) duvall draw it out for far too long with the sermon represent once the police have arrive and it need to come to a close . would an officer wait that long to arrest a man for first degree murder . duvall rally cry of get behind me satan be quite effective and but it drag on for ten minute . finally and sammy acceptance of jesus and give what have already happen to billy bob and lack the punch it should have . it bring me back to an eerie feeling that i get throughout the movie represent this particular branch of christianity that the apostle be represent seem to shout a whole lot what really shouldn not need that kind of volume . i be teach a year or so ago the phrase preach the gospel at all time represent when necessary and use word . it mean that it in our action that we show our love not just in our word and and it not just love for other christian and but for non christian as well . and we do not just gather together and praise god so that we may be save and but we continually strive to be close to god and bring others close to god and far from the devil and to create reconciliation and justice in the world and work alongside the devilish as well a the saintly . remember that scene where duvall drag the guy out of the bar . it remind me that there be those who say there the world of the devil and and the world of god and we should steer clear of the former . however and i think it a world we need to engage and learn about represent we need to be in those bar and not just drag men out and but learn why theyre in . we need to figure out about why men really go to strip club and why woman work there and why woman abort their child and why teen have premarital sex and why divorce occurs and and not just dismiss them a thing of satan to be steer clear of . good fence do not make good christian . now if the world of the apostle and the ice harvest could be combine and that would be a very powerful movie about jesus in the real world . i will say though that the last bit of the apostle ( spoiler ) be a great reminder of duvall power represent he continue to preach even a a prisoner on a chain gang . now that be holy ghost power . amen . continue to seek him and praise him and serve him and and love him .