ME MYSELF I

Name: ME MYSELF I
Item: ME MYSELF I
Author: Review

"Pronoun(ced) Dysfunction"

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

In ME MYSELF I, talented Australian actress Rachel Griffiths (HILARY AND JACKIE) stars as a thirtysomething working woman named Pamela who gets a chance to see what her life would have been like if she had married the “love of her life.” Though she’s a successful writer, Pamela wonders what it would be like she had married the handsome Robert 13 years ago. She gets her chance when she’s knocked unconscious and meets her alternate self, who has actually married Robert and now has three children. The alternate Pamela disappears, and Pamela finds out about the joys and pains of married life.

Although this movie is very enjoyable and contains a validation of traditional family life, it has a New Age worldview. For example, Pamela psyches herself into being “one with all life,” treats a Christian evangelist rudely in one scene and gets away with some brief adultery, which she eventually rejects. She gets away with it because the movie’s New Age story gimmick allows her to trade places with her alternate self. ME MYSELF I also has strong foul language, including some strong profanities, and scenes of depicted sex, including one scene of extra-marital fornication.

Content:

(PaPa, Ab, B, LLL, V, SSS, NN, A, D, M) New Age pagan worldview of self-esteem & self-help, pantheistic mantras plus some anti-biblical elements including young Christian evangelist rudely treated & some moral moments at the end favoring traditional family ideals; 18 obscenities & 19 profanities, plus little boy’s insults to mother eventually rebuked; mild rugby violence between family members & a couple pratfalls; depicted married sex, depicted adulterous sex, one instance of depicted video pornography, & implied oral sex; partial, brief sexual nudity; alcohol use; smoking; and, adultery has no consequences because of fantasy pagan worldview & story gimmick.

More Detail:

In ME MYSELF I, talented Australian actress Rachel Griffiths (HILARY AND JACKIE) stars as a thirtysomething working woman named Pamela who gets a chance to see what her life would have been like if she had married the “love of her life.” Though she’s a successful writer, Pamela wonders what it would be like she had married a handsome man named Robert 13-years-ago. She gets her chance when she’s knocked unconscious and meets her alternate self, who has actually, indeed, married Robert and now has three children. The alternate Pamela disappears, and Pamela finds out about the joys and pains of married life.

Although this movie is very enjoyable and contains a validation of traditional family life, it has a New Age pagan worldview. For example, Pamela psyches herself into being “one with all life,” treats a Christian evangelist rudely in one scene and gets away with some brief adultery, which she eventually rejects. She gets away with it because the movie’s New Age story gimmick allows her to trade places with her alternate self. ME MYSELF I also has some strong foul language, including some strong profanities, and scenes of depicted sex, including one scene of extra-marital fornication.

Regrettably, all of these bad things dilute the fun and the moral messages about family, marriage and raising children that help make this movie a feel-good experience.