[Movie] An Awakening Concept: "Courageous" Review

I always feel grateful and blessed when I don't just get to see a new movie but also discover a thought or concept that I've never had to think deeply into before. I see a lot of movies almost everyday but only a good number has stirred something in me with a perspective or thought they bring into the storyline to play characters.

This movie is one of them for me, a movie that didn't just give a new concept but also teach how to pracricalize the concept immediately if you are moved enough to do it. I still wonder why it took this long for me to see the movie "Courageous" when I've been seeing clips of it randomly. I didn't even know they were from the movie I'm saving.

"Courageous" is a 2011 christain-based released movie starring Alex Kendrick who is also the director and one of the writers, Ken Bevel, Kevin Downes, Ben Davies and Robert Amaya as the main characters of the story. The four are people who experience loss and pain closer than they thought they deserved and things began to change when they make a life changing decision.

Three are police officers, trying to protect and serve their country until Adam Mitchell (starred by Alex Kendrick) loses his beloved and sweet 9 year old daughter. I can still remember a sad but true saying a pastor told Adam as he grieved his daughter thinking he can't heal from the loss. The words were "I have heard many people say, who have lost a loved one, that in some ways it is like learning to live with an amputation. You do heal, but you are never the same." That felt so true.

After long thoughts and burning desire to set things right in his life, his family and relationship with God and his job, Adam proposed a concept that did not only start to change things in the story but also place my thoughts on a perspective I couldn't help but appreciate for the revelation. The four men, with different families, decided to make a resolution to actually be men and fathers to their family. The resolution reveals what God expects every man in a family to be.

After the resolution, Adam began to see how he had been neglecting his duties as a father to his 15 year old son and even his dead daughter, he decides to always be there for his son and making sure to teach him in the ways of the Lord. Their relationship develops into building trust and finding peace with each other as the family try to heal from their greatest loss, their little Emily.

Nathan Hayes (starred by Ken Bevel) is easily my favourite character in this story because of the courageous opening scene he played in that gave the movie a lot of meaning, Nathan struggling with a thief stealing his car risking his life only for viewers to find out that he was just trying to save his baby boy at the back seat, it was so warming.

And after the resolution, he did something I couldn't help but just love and start wishing I had an opportunity like that with my father. Nathan, for the protection of his teenage daughter, made an agreement with his daughter for the man who will date and marry her in the future, he seals it with a ring and his daughter appreciates the act.

Over all, it's a good movie but for those who enjoy christain-based movies so I'll recommend it, 8/10