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Posted: Dec 31 2008 at 5:33pm | IP Logged Quote teachingmyown
Reviving this old thread! We rented this movie from Netflix but I noticed on their site they reviewed it and gave it a "10 and up" rating. This is mainly for violence, but they did say there was quite a bit of speculating as to how Mary became pregnant, including St Anne hinting at rape.

Now I am hesitant to show it to my kids. How overtly shown is all the speculating? Will the kids pick up on this?

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Posted: Dec 31 2008 at 6:05pm | IP Logged Quote MarilynW
Molly - we watched this with all the kids during Advent. None of my children can take the Holy Innocents (we had them out of the room) - and Herod was scary for my 4 year old. There was speculation about the pregnancy - but it went right over the heads of all my children - no questions asked. Personally - I really did not like the portrayal of Saint Anne and Saint Joachim - and did not like the way Mary was portrayed either. There were moments I liked (cannot think right now)- it is not a bad movie - but not one which will become an Advent favorite either. Even the kids said - Jesus of Nazareth is so much better.

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Posted: Dec 31 2008 at 8:54pm | IP Logged Quote kingvozzo
DH and I started to watch it just before Christmas. I was NOT impressed with the portrayol of the Blessed Mother. She was sulky and petulant, imo, although it was subtle. We ended up not finishing it and sending it back. I was glad I hadn't watched it with the kids.

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Posted: Jan 01 2009 at 8:50am | IP Logged Quote Marcia
We just Netflixed this at Advent too! I did not let any of the children see it. Hubby did a showing at his college and they had a discussion time with the college students.
The Holy Innocents was intense and I didn't like the falling into the river scene with Mary and Joseph as they were on the way to Bethlehem. I too thought that Mary was portrayed less than my mind had invisioned her. I see that watching a movie can erase some lovely mind pictures that you have created over the years with reading the Nativity story from the Bible each year. I will wait to let my kids see this. I did read the book that came out with the movie two years ago. It was interesting to read a book that was written about a movie.
Alternatively I did let the kids watchh Jesus of Nazareth this Advent.
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