A pre-teen starseed (an older soul) girl raises her hand in church to receive Christ into her life. From that point on, she is taken in by the church and taught fundamentalist ways and doctrines. She eventually marries a fundamentalist contemporary Christian musician and has several children and lives the seemingly happy life. But there's more to Corrine than meets the eye, for she has past-life experiences and she's trying to live in the boxes of lower-consciousness people who want to keep her in that box they all live in. She has far outgrown her husband, and they have very little real communication, for he is stuck in his Christian fundamentalism.
When her closest friend gets a brain tumor and the pastor and all in the church say an act like this is God's will, Corrine loses it, for she knows it isn't God's will. She really tries to figure it all out, but the theology that she is under said she can't get a divorce unless he commits adultery, which he hasn't. So she feels trapped. Whoever wrote this story must have been through it, and Vera Farmiga did a wonderful job of directing the film.
Eventually Corrine comes to the mental strength to leave her husband anyway and the church. She meets a friend who teaches her to read books on poetry and alternative viewpoints of life and she slowly gets out of Christian fundamentalism in her mind. This is a wonderful film for anyone to watch, to learn what could happen if you allow yourself to fall into this narrow-minded view of reality and Jesus Christ, who never taught fundamentalism or religious hypocrisy; Vera Farmiga, Donna Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, Joshua Leonard.
~Gabriel of Urantia*MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
