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#Beautiful creatures book movie#

The necessity of sacrifice to rescue us from our own nature.

The film both recognizes the difficulties with this view, and, at the same time, embraces it in a way that is surprisingly nuanced. We are either good or evil, and we don’t have a say in the matter.

The inability of human nature to control itself.

We are either good or evil-there is no middle ground.

The inability of human nature to be neutral.

Of course, this is done by Hollywood so much that it has pretty much become a caricature of itself-I admittedly tuned out a bit whenever this was brought up.

The perception of intolerance, fundamentalism, and stereotypical hatred by Christians.

#Beautiful creatures book movie#

Even the plot itself was interesting (I am not familiar with the book, so don’t stone me if it was too far off the mark) and kept me engaged for most of the admittedly long-ish film (just over 2 hours).Įven better, there is much in this movie worthy of reflection for Christians. Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, and, surprisingly, relative-nobody Alden Ehrenreich were all a delight to watch on screen-even if Irons’ attempts at a Southern accent were occasionally wince-inducing. In fact, the setting (the film was apparently shot mostly in the South), dialogue, and acting were all enjoyable and engaging.

There was, of course, the requisite self-pity as characters bewailed the world’s inability to understand the young, but these things were not allowed to dominate the plot. Beautiful Creatures was a pleasant surprise in that it was quite well done. But to be even fairer, there wasn’t nearly as much as I feared there would be. (That’s what Twilight is, right? I’ve never read it.) And to be fair, there was certainly some of that. I confess I went into it expecting some kind of Twilight knock-off attempting to capitalize on the disposable income of teenagers and their willingness to spend that income seeing their angst projected on the big screen. I’ll go ahead and give this movie the highest words of praise that can be spoken about a film: it made me want to read the book. (Technically, we’re not supposed to call her a “witch”-that’s just negative stereotype promoted by the anti-witch military-industrial complex.) In fact, the similarity between the two sets of circumstances draws Ethan and Lena together and gives them the strength to overcome the challenges that face a redneck and a witch. Sounds like two completely different problems, right? Wrong. Both Ethan and Lena want to escape-Ethan wants to get out of his backwoods South Carolina town (I forget the name, but does it really matter?), while Lena wants to escape being forced to be a “Caster” for the side of either good or evil.