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(AB, Pa, C, L, VVV, SSS, NNN, A, D, M) Anti-biblical, pagan worldviews where codes of morality regarding marriage are opposed though there are some Christian elements where society does not condone living together & raising children outside marriage, a sinner repents, goes back to God & church and follows the commandments of marriage, positive references to Jesus Christ in a scene where schoolchildren are shown a model of the city of Jerusalem, & Jesus is mentioned as King of the Jews; 8 profanities where God's Name is used in vain; violent scenes showing slaughtering of a pig & dragging out its innards, killing a rabbit in a trap, bloody childbirth scene, & death scene involving young children; 4 graphic sexual scenes, miscellaneous immorality including living together outside marriage, childbirth outside marriage, & adultery; full female & male nudity; smoking; alcohol use & abuse; and, leaving a spouse, abandoning a child, suicide, & murder
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The film JUDE is based on Thomas Hardy’s book, Jude the Obscure. When his wife leaves him, Jude tries to get into the university, but is turned down. Frustrated, he is troubled by his growing affections for his cousin Sue. Sue is a free-spirited girl who drinks with the guys and views society and its rules as limitations to personal freedom. Jude and Sue try to fight their attraction at first, but passions rule, and they eventually run away together. Living as outcasts of society, they raise two children. Unknown to them, their hard lives are heading for a great tragedy.
The film does not quite capture the novel’s drama of Jude and Sue. Rather, the film provides isolated moments of over-dramatized events rather than a plot progression. Despite fine acting, JUDE limps and whimpers along in its story-telling. There are also nasty scenes of animal slaughter, a bloody childbirth and several sexual situations with full male and female nudity. There are some positive reflections on God’s law of marriage and of going to church, but Sue’s final repentance is born more out of desperate guilt than of faith. The film sadly shows sympathy for its misguided lovers and condemns society as the bullying giant that forces its values on others. The film is as misguided as its lovers.
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