How far can you go with your faith? What matters you more- your child's happiness or the fear of being labelled blasphemous? Who's fault is it when a religion that preaches love and compassion becomes the cause for the death of an innocent child? Would you as a mother/father or brother/sister prefer to loose your child or sibling; or accept him the way he/she is? What would you value more- your hatred for a person's most innate desires inherited from birth, or the purity of his or her's soul? How right is to tell a person that god hates him/her/T just because he/she/T is different from others?
So yeah I like to watch serious, subtle and sensible cinema but I am sure not into documentaries and serious biopics. But since this one came across as one of the highly recommended movies on several IMDb links, and I liked the central idea of challenging age old religious norms, I decided to download and watch it.
'Prayers for Bobby' tells the real life story of Mary Griffith, an american LGBT rights activist who lost her teenage son due to her homophobia arising out of her bigoted and orthodox religious views. Mary being an orthodox Christian tells her son that his temptations were sinful as per the bible, and it was necessary for him to get healed with the help of prayers. Thus begins Bobby's ordeal. Unable to cope with the struggle between his sexuality and cravings to receive love and acceptance from his mother, Bobby ends his life. It is then Mary starts searching for answers to why she, despite being faithful to god, and Bobby, despite being a noble soul had to suffer this fate.
The film raises very pertinent questions over the hypocrisy of conservative societies. It's unfortunate that these societies are so adamant against adapting to new or rather relatively lesser known things. Result, millions of people suffer silently. Millions of cries, stifled cruelly. People follow centuries old certain written or set norms. They fail to see the point that these rules were made, written and interpreted by persons. They are no rules of nature. The same rules can be or rather should be interpreted and adjusted as per the need of present time. If only the bigots paid more importance to expanding their own wisdom and knowledge, and learning and understanding lesser known things, instead of blatantly rejecting them, they would actually make a huge difference to the world.
So yeah I like to watch serious, subtle and sensible cinema but I am sure not into documentaries and serious biopics. But since this one came across as one of the highly recommended movies on several IMDb links, and I liked the central idea of challenging age old religious norms, I decided to download and watch it.
'Prayers for Bobby' tells the real life story of Mary Griffith, an american LGBT rights activist who lost her teenage son due to her homophobia arising out of her bigoted and orthodox religious views. Mary being an orthodox Christian tells her son that his temptations were sinful as per the bible, and it was necessary for him to get healed with the help of prayers. Thus begins Bobby's ordeal. Unable to cope with the struggle between his sexuality and cravings to receive love and acceptance from his mother, Bobby ends his life. It is then Mary starts searching for answers to why she, despite being faithful to god, and Bobby, despite being a noble soul had to suffer this fate.
The film raises very pertinent questions over the hypocrisy of conservative societies. It's unfortunate that these societies are so adamant against adapting to new or rather relatively lesser known things. Result, millions of people suffer silently. Millions of cries, stifled cruelly. People follow centuries old certain written or set norms. They fail to see the point that these rules were made, written and interpreted by persons. They are no rules of nature. The same rules can be or rather should be interpreted and adjusted as per the need of present time. If only the bigots paid more importance to expanding their own wisdom and knowledge, and learning and understanding lesser known things, instead of blatantly rejecting them, they would actually make a huge difference to the world.
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