You Can Live Forever is released on 16 June in UK cinemas and digital platforms. Published 12:24 AM PDT, JBERLIN (AP) The German parliament has approved the construction of a memorial in Berlin to the Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted under the Nazis, a plan the country’s culture minister hopes will help end their status as forgotten victims. A sympathetic, fervent drama nonetheless. I was reminded a little of Apostasy by the British film-maker Daniel Kokotajlo, in which the emotional stakes were a little higher. As a Jehovah’s Witness in a secular world, Marike is accustomed to living a semi-secret life and used to persistently trying to convert people – not that Jaime needs to be converted in the emotional sense. There is a wildly romantic “baptism” scene in the bath where the erotic excitement is elided with religious enthusiasm.īut the film upends expectations to some degree: it isn’t simply about oppressive belief clamping down on gay people.
Soon, Jaime and Marike are hanging out together all the time, going to meetings, going door-to-door with leaflets, and kissing in the toilets of the cinema during a speciously heterosexual double-date with two lunkheaded JW boys. Marike is wounded by the fact that her mother was shunned, or “disfellowshipped”, by the believers who now encourage her to believe that her mother is dead this is a painful echo of Jaime’s own bereavement. Gloweringly, Jaime complies but is struck as by a lightning-bolt at the sight of beautiful Marike (June Laporte) in the congregation she lives with her older sister Amanda (Deragh Campbell) and Amanda’s alpha-male husband Frank (Tim Campbell), fierce JW folk, all. She has been sent away to live with her aunt Beth (Liane Balaban), who with her husband Jean-François (Antoine Yared), is a devout Jehovah’s Witness and expects Jaime to obey their rules and show up to their religious services wearing the very uncool Handmaid’s-Tale dress they’ve picked out for her.
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I can vouch that it is 100% accurate in all details and I hope will go some way to alerting people to the reality of the religion.There’s some soap-operatic gusto to this story of two teenage gay women in a Jehovah’s Witness community in Quebec it’s got something of Jeanette Winterson’s tenderness, if not exactly the wit, and the movie is interesting and even faintly subversive in its implied analogies concerning conversion and enclosed behaviour systems.Īnwen O’Driscoll brings some Anna Kendrick energy to the role of Jaime, a smart teen whose mum suffers a breakdown after the death of her dad from a heart attack. If you want to know what Jehovah's Witnesses believe without it being sugar coated.this film is for you. Next time you see any Jehovah's Witnesses at their carts, watch to see if they are smiling and happy, if they are not on their phones.
I was interested in the demeanor of the main character (mother) and noticed just how sad and unhappy she was all the way through 'doing the right thing.' Surely obeying God, if this is what is required, should make us happy, but the film got it spot on. We too were expected (and did for ten years) completely shun two daughters at age sixteen who were vulnerable, had been abused by another member of the fatih, and 'went off the JW rails.' The cost.enormous in emotional energy and happiness. Without giving away any spoilers, the director was accurate in every way with the belief system and indoctrination of this cult. Last night I watched this film with my wife, and we had been Jehovah's Witnesses for near on sixty years.
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