Saving Sarah Cain is an excellent made-for-TV movie that came out in DVD recently. It is a relatively rare treat being a family friendly movie that makes you think.
Saving Sarah Cain depicts a clash of two worlds. The life of a busy single female newspaper writer is interrupted when she learns she “inherited” her sisters five children. However, the twist is that these children are practicing Amish. Her sister, before she died, left a written request that Sarah take responsibility for the children. Their father had previously died in a buggy accident. The fun begins when Sarah takes the kids from their Pennsylvania home to her apartment in Portland, Oregon. It is reminiscent of the Tarzan movie where Tarzan goes from the jungle to the city and is awestruck by the world around him.
The clash of worldviews, the Amish versus the “English” or modern American life illustrates a deeper culture clash between the Godless secular society that so typifies America today and the American culture based on Judeo-Christian values, of which only a seeming remnant exists today. Our Forefathers would not recognize the predominate degraded and depraved culture which is America today.
You could say that Saving Sarah Cain is a parable of the man-centered self-serving culture so prevalent in America in 2008 versus the parallel culture, which is sometimes viewed as a subculture, the one based on the Judeo-Christian worldview. This traditional culture is the one that has been bequeathed to us by our ancestors, which we have allowed to become corrupt through our great apathy, indifference and compromise.
Sarah Cain has to face the reality of the comparative purity of the children’s Amish culture and the self-centered nature of her own culture. We as a people must also do this, to face the reality of what it means to be American as it has been defined throughout the years beginning with our nations founding. We need to return a more pure, wholesome culture of virtue and character. We need to turn from and reject our materialistic, self-centeredness and begin to really care about others more than our selves.
This movie has great lessons for us today. I am not saying that the Amish life is the ideal, although the simplicity and close meaningful relationships that seem to be fostered are missing in much of our lives in the rat race of living in which we all are a part to some degree.
RATING
I would rate this movie a ***** out of ***** for its excellent portrayal of one typical American citizens suddenly thrown a curve ball, which they have never had to swing at or experience prior. We see the true nation and character of Sarah by the end of the movie. One person who viewed the film said the movie made her cry. It was a tear-jerker in parts. It had a few good laughs. You could really begin to get a feel for both cultures.
I would recommend the purchase of this movie to anyone. At least rent it and enjoy a couple of hours of wholesome entertainment.
It was especially meaningful for me because I lived in Amish Country for several years and learned to appreciate and respect the simple ways of the plain people.
Saving Sarah Cain depicts a clash of two worlds. The life of a busy single female newspaper writer is interrupted when she learns she “inherited” her sisters five children. However, the twist is that these children are practicing Amish. Her sister, before she died, left a written request that Sarah take responsibility for the children. Their father had previously died in a buggy accident. The fun begins when Sarah takes the kids from their Pennsylvania home to her apartment in Portland, Oregon. It is reminiscent of the Tarzan movie where Tarzan goes from the jungle to the city and is awestruck by the world around him.
The clash of worldviews, the Amish versus the “English” or modern American life illustrates a deeper culture clash between the Godless secular society that so typifies America today and the American culture based on Judeo-Christian values, of which only a seeming remnant exists today. Our Forefathers would not recognize the predominate degraded and depraved culture which is America today.
You could say that Saving Sarah Cain is a parable of the man-centered self-serving culture so prevalent in America in 2008 versus the parallel culture, which is sometimes viewed as a subculture, the one based on the Judeo-Christian worldview. This traditional culture is the one that has been bequeathed to us by our ancestors, which we have allowed to become corrupt through our great apathy, indifference and compromise.
Sarah Cain has to face the reality of the comparative purity of the children’s Amish culture and the self-centered nature of her own culture. We as a people must also do this, to face the reality of what it means to be American as it has been defined throughout the years beginning with our nations founding. We need to return a more pure, wholesome culture of virtue and character. We need to turn from and reject our materialistic, self-centeredness and begin to really care about others more than our selves.
This movie has great lessons for us today. I am not saying that the Amish life is the ideal, although the simplicity and close meaningful relationships that seem to be fostered are missing in much of our lives in the rat race of living in which we all are a part to some degree.
RATING
I would rate this movie a ***** out of ***** for its excellent portrayal of one typical American citizens suddenly thrown a curve ball, which they have never had to swing at or experience prior. We see the true nation and character of Sarah by the end of the movie. One person who viewed the film said the movie made her cry. It was a tear-jerker in parts. It had a few good laughs. You could really begin to get a feel for both cultures.
I would recommend the purchase of this movie to anyone. At least rent it and enjoy a couple of hours of wholesome entertainment.
It was especially meaningful for me because I lived in Amish Country for several years and learned to appreciate and respect the simple ways of the plain people.
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