Faith & Film

The Good Doctor is a new medical drama TV show that recently premiered on ABC. It is about a young man named Shaun Murphy who's dream is to be a surgeon. He is a brilliant person who is equally kind. He also has autism and savant syndrome which gives him near photographic recall, and the ability to notice small and minute details and changes. Before I begin with what excellent lessons there are to learn, let me give some background on the show. Shaun, the main character, is from a small town and had a troubled childhood. His father was physically and verbally abusive to him and his younger brother Steve. His brother was the only one who every truly stood up for and looked out for him. One time, after their dad had yelled at Shaun and incidentally killed Shaun's pet rabbit, his brother decided that was enough and ran away from their parents and took Shaun with him knowing it was the only way to keep him safe. After some time of living on their own in an old school bus in a j...

I finally had the chance to watch Baby Driver this past weekend. It's a new heist movie that came out this summer, and I will say, it was one of the most adrenaline filled action packed movies I've seen in quite a while! So many of the details of the movie were precise and well executed. The music added another level of depth to the movie that I was not expecting but really appreciated. Shortly after watching the movie, I knew I wanted to write about it in this blog, so I began on some general research to learn more about the movie itself. I was reading some reviews of the movie when I came across a Christian one and hesitantly clicked on it out of curiosity. The gist of the review was that Baby Driver was an action-packed adventure, but, that it was extremely offensive to Christians due to language and violent content. This view I understood, because I know not all Christians have the same views on language and violence in movies. But, the line in the review that really u...