"Hundreds of Awkward Moments"
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What You Need To Know:
THAT AWKWARD MOMENT has some very clever, even brilliant, writing, when it gets serious or when it goes for more witty humor. The ending is particularly good. When it gets crude and lewd, however, (which is often), it falters in a big way. There’s no godly, biblical foundation to the lives of these characters. They operate in a pagan, immoral culture with few or no Christian values. Consequently, there’s abundant, strong foul language in THAT AWKWARD MOMENT, along with toilet humor and explicitly lewd references.
Content:
(PaPaPa, B, C, Ho, LLL, V, SS, NNN, AA, DD, MM) Very strong pagan worldview with some light moral, redemptive elements, including man asks for forgiveness, plus brief jokes about homosexuality; at least 151 obscenities (mostly “f” and “s” words), six strong profanities, 13 light profanities, a couple obscene gestures, and some toilet jokes; a punch is thrown; strong sexual content includes depicted fornication in several scenes, implied fornication in several scenes, and implied sex between estranged married couple, the wife of whom has cheated on the husband, plus crude sexual references and jokes in one scene about whether two male friends would get together if they were homosexual rather than heterosexual; images of explicit male sex toys, man wears rubber penis at what he thought was costume party and visual and verbal jokes are made about that situation, brief rear female nudity, upper male nudity, and brief rear male nudity; alcohol use and brief drunkenness; no smoking but a joke about using LSD or “acid”; and, lying, cheating, man deliberately avoids girlfriend when her father suddenly dies but comes to regret his decision, men take advantage of women, friends fall out but come back together.
More Detail:
THAT AWKWARD MOMENT, a romantic comedy, has some very clever, even brilliant, writing, when it gets serious, or when it goes for more witty and wry humor. When it gets crude and lewd, however (which is often), it falters in a big way.
The story is about three twentysomething men, Jason, Mike, and Daniel, who are young professionals working in New York City. Mike, a doctor, informs his two friends that his wife is cheating on him and wants a divorce. Jason convinces Mike and Daniel that they should all just play the field and try to bed as many women as they can. Jason is afraid of what he calls “the So moment,” that awkward moment when a woman suddenly says, “So. . .,” meaning she now wants to know whether a relationship is headed toward something more serious, perhaps even marriage.
Though the three men agree to play the field, Jason and Daniel end up falling for two women, and Mike tries to get back with his wife, Vera. However, they don’t tell one another. The problem is, they also try to avoid that awkward moment, when Jason has to tell Ellie and Daniel has to tell Chelsea where their relationships are heading, and when Mike finally must confront Vera about their marriage’s future.
THAT AWKWARD MOMENT has some excellent writing. For example, there’s a cleverly written “meet cute” scene when Jason meets Ellie. A funny twist occurs, which results in some more good writing. Finally, the climactic scene between Jason and Ellie is one of the best-written scenes in recent years.
That said, THAT AWKWARD MOMENT is full of almost constant foul language, including many, many “f” words. Also, it often relies on crude, lewd humor, such as a scene at a sex shop and a fancy party scene where Jason mistakenly shows up wearing a lewd costume because he thought “dress up” meant wearing a costume, not a suit and tie.
All this occurs within the context of a Post-Christian neo-pagan culture, with a non-Christian, unbiblical attitude toward male-female relationships. Thus, despite some good writing, there’s no godly, biblical foundation to the lives of these characters, and the characters are clearly influenced by modern feminist, hedonistic attitudes that have turned men into juvenile predators. They all forget the foundation that God laid down in Chapters One and Two of Genesis, and that Jesus reaffirmed in Matthew 19:1-12, “At the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’” Without a biblical foundation, relationships between men and women will always be fatally flawed.
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