Save Me
Headline: ** Conveniently Abhorrent **
Title: SAVE ME
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -4
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VV
Sex: SS
Nudity: NN
RATING: Not Rated
RELEASE: September 5, 2008
TIME: 96 minutes
STARRING: Chad Allen, Robert Gant, Judith Light, Stephen Lang, Robert Baker, and William Dennis Hurley
DIRECTOR: Robert Cary
PRODUCERS: Chad Allen, Robert Gant, Herb Hamsher, Judith Light, and Christopher Racster
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, James Garbus, and Robert Kroups
WRITER: Robert Desiderio, Craig Chester and Alan Hines
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: First Run Features
CONTENT: (PaPaPa, HoHoHo, PCPCPC, FRFRFR, CC, B, AbAbAb, LLL, VV, SS, NN, A, DD, M) Ultimately very strong, slightly mixed, pagan, pro-homosexual, politically correct worldview with false and aberrant theological, biblical points that distorts the teachings of God and Jesus Christ on morality and homosexuality, but some strongly positive Christian references, including positive references to Jesus Christ, with lighter moral and biblical elements because of the aberrant teachings, but movie is a liberally aberrant one that ultimately skewers traditional Bible-believing Christians who correctly believe that homosexuality is a wicked sin that hurts people and harms society; 26 obscenities, five strong profanities and three light profanities (some of which are rebuked); one strong violent image of suicide victim unconscious in bloody bathtub water, brief hitting and angry man wrecks some objects; depicted homosexual liaison in one scene that's fairly salacious, plus two males kiss in some other scenes; upper and rear male nudity in homosexual context in one scene; alcohol use; smoking depicted and drug use briefly depicted and mentioned; and, negative father figure, some secular psychobabble regarding people strongly opposed to homosexuality, some possible misogyny, or irrational hatred and fear toward women, especially strong ones.
GENRE: Drama
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Adults
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SUMMARY: SAVE ME is about two men in a Christian recovery facility, who eventually reject the position of the hard-nosed woman running the facility, that Christians cannot engage in homosexual behavior after finding Jesus Christ. SAVE ME is well made, despite a low budget, but it ultimately sets up straw man Christian characters to take the aberrant and abhorrent, liberal Christian position on homosexual behavior, that it's not really a sin.
IN BRIEF:
SAVE ME is a well-made movie that takes the aberrant, liberal Christian position on homosexual behavior, that it's not really a sin. Mark, a drug addicted young man involved in the homosexual lifestyle of promiscuous sex and drugs, finally ends up in the hospital. His brother convinces Paul to try Genesis House, a Christian ministry that attempts to cure young men of their "sexual brokenness." The ministry is run by Ted and his wife, Gayle, who rejected her own homosexual son, who then committed suicide. Mark reminds Gayle of the son she lost. She fights back when it becomes clear that Mark and another man in the house, Scott, become close friends clearly attracted to one another. This forces Mark and Scott to finally reject Gayle's teaching that Christians cannot engage in homosexual behavior after finding Jesus Christ.
This story and its character ultimately become too convenient. For example, the movie adopts the liberal canard that Christians strongly opposed to homosexuality, like Gayle, are psychologically disturbed. Thus, it argues that they oppose homosexuality because of emotional reasons, not biblical or rational ones. The movie's arguments are ultimately specious and abhorrent.
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