War Room Explained: More Than Just a Popular Title (Review)
I finally saw the movie, after a very long time of hearing people talk about how powerful the movie is. It's surprising how nobody shared the details on why the movie was powerful, I honestly didn't get any hint on what the movie was about until a few days to when I saw it. That's a first.
The day I got something about the movie to expect when I see it, was while I was trying to download the movie and I saw the trailer. One scene got me almost in tears just from the trailer, I knew I was in for an emotional ride once I start seeing the movie and it was more than expected.
Like I've shared before, I'm into more movies with English and those that teaches me more on how to live with good value and finding purpose. I'm in that phase of life so I figured watching movies that explains more on that aspect, short clips that speaks to my mind and reading books helps.
In that line, I decided to see this movie after the many recommendations, after I saw the trailer and after the scene that got me almost in tears. So I'm officially a viewer of the powerful movie, "War Room". A movie I think the title got way more popular than what the story really is about.
"War Room" is a bit of an old movie released over 10 years ago (2015), starring Priscilla C. Shirer, T.C. Stallings and Karen Abercrombie. What many didn't say the movie was about but it really is about is, Prayer and family. I learned something beautiful from this movie unplanned.
The movie is about a family that looks perfect on the outside but it's breaking on the inside, a workaholic husband and father who doesn't have time for his wife and kid, a wife and mother who would always argue with her husband and not know what's going on with her kid. A kid who keeps hoping and praying that her parents will love her because she thinks they don't. All that began to change after the wife meets an elderly woman while trying to help sell her house. The woman introduces her to prayers as a weapon, they were both Christians. She learned to save her marriage with her prayers in her little corner.
Now, to the scene that got me almost in tears, it's where she totally surrendered to God to save her marriage, asking God to help her forgive her husband and for her husband to love her again. At that moment, her husband was about cheating on her with another woman but God started his work immediately and he felt bad to continue.
One of the things I've learned in praying, sometimes answers don't come and sometimes, it comes but not immediately. But the few times prayers are answered instantly, they are what I hold so dear and keep believing that indeed there is a God ever present. It is not what happens often, but this movie gave that reassuring again.
I love the characters, especially the elderly woman who from regret have come to understand that she needs to teach younger women how to fight right and have a good marriage. I learned one quiet thing in the story, and that is the power of replacing argument or trying to win against your spouse to praying and submitting them or the problem or issue to God.
Over all, the movie is a good one but like a review said, it's mainly for Christians so others out of this category may not find it just as interesting. But yeah, I'll recommend it for who would love something different for a change. My next view is "The Forge", I think it has the same characters.
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The funny thing about these old gospel movies is that they feel just right. When you watch with understanding, you get to reflect on the trials and challenges an everyday man goes through without glamorizing it. Indeed, it is a beautiful piece of art.