- Content: “Heartfelt but flawed”
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What You Need To Know:
LIVING is a British remake of an iconic 1952 movie by acclaimed Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa. Simple but beautiful, LIVING is a heartfelt look at the human condition and celebrates living a life of purpose. As Williams, Bill Nighy carries the movie to new heights with an incredible performance. LIVING is a celebration of life, but themes of death run throughout it. LIVING doesn’t approach death or the afterlife from a Christian, biblical worldview. It also has lewd dancing in a nightclub and a scene of drunkenness. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.
Content:
Light moral worldview about celebrating life and living a life of purpose and meaning, but there’s no regard for how the Bible talks about death and life, so movie is marred by some pagan elements
Three obscenities
No depicted violence, but there are discussions surrounding terminal illness, suicide and death
No sex scenes, but there is some lewd dancing in a strip club, and two characters are seen kissing
Characters visit a strip club, and woman are seen in bikinis, one dancer removes her top, but it is shown from the back, but there is rear female nudity
Men drink and smoke while at work, two characters get very drunk in one scene
Men smoke while at work, and a character shows sleeping pills, insinuating that he thought about taking his own life;
While LIVING deals with death in a heartfelt and gentle way, celebrating life, it doesn’t provide a biblical worldview to the problem of life and death.
More Detail:
Mr. Williams lives out his days working as a bureaucrat in the county Public Works department. He is stoic, never late and goes about his days in a monotonous but precise way.
However, when Williams finds out he’s terminally ill, with only about one more year to live, he takes stock of his life. Upon confronting his past and thinking about the legacy he may or may not leave, Williams befriends an ex-colleague, Margaret.
Margaret is the exact opposite of Williams. She’s is passionate about living her life with vigor and joy. Williams starts spending more time with Margaret. She inspires him to do something more meaningful with his life, outside of the job he’s done for his entire life. As Williams embarks on a journey to live life to the fullest, he’s able to take account of what really matters before his life comes to an end.
LIVING is a heartfelt look at the human condition and celebrates living a life of purpose. As Williams, Bill Nighy carries the movie to new heights with an incredible performance. While the movie is a celebration of life, themes of death run throughout the movie due to the lead character’s terminal illness. That said, the discussions surrounding death are gentle. However, they don’t approach death or the afterlife from a Christian, biblical worldview. MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for lewd dancing at a nightclub and a scene of drunkenness in LIVING.
