The Movie Review

Mengshen said about his book as a base for the movie God Will Save Me “It’s good to have principles when achieving a goal, but don’t be too stubborn when others offering helps. Change your mind. Think again, it might be your real chance”. The movie teaches us well why he pointed out the importance of accepting other’s help.

The Movie is all about a religious girl who prays every day for everything. One day, a serious flood attacked her town and destroyed all the houses besides hers. She went up to the roof and prayed to God to save her. While she was praying, she had several chances to be rescued but she refused all because she believed God save her. Despite her belief, she was drowned and met Got in the heaven. She couldn’t understand why God didn’t save her. But then the God told her the true meaning of his help.

Of course, the movie makers as students couldn’t afford to have real setting and props for the movie. However, this is such a great movie because they did the great work to make the movie realistic with three major factors: the costumes, the pictures, and the sounds.

First of all, the actresses wore the costumes which can symbolize the characters well. The costumes are one of the important factors that make the movie more interesting and realistic. Even though the setting is perfect it is easy to ruin the movie, if there is no proper dress. However, they wore the right dress such as turban scarf for the man with a camel, blue stripe-shirt for sailor, and pure white shirt with lace for God so that the audience could realize their characteristics. Their costume helped a lot to increase the reality of the movie.

Second, the use of pictures made the movie far more interesting. They used many pictures of flood so that the audience can feel urgency of the situation. Also, they used drawing of the manner of given helps and all of them played important role to make the better movie. Especially, the effect of drawing of helicopter was really awesome. They put the helicopter just in front of the camera so that it looks much bigger than the actress. There was no doubt that the pictures made more interesting and entertaining movie.

Lastly, the sounds effects helped to make it a better movie. They used various sounds such as wind, flood, rain-dropping, and the noise of helicopter for the better explanation of the setting. Although the sky in the movie was clean, the sounds made the audience under the illusion of flood. The sounds effects caused the movie to become good.

Overall the movie, God Will Save Me was great. However, there was a small thing should be improved for the perfect movie. Sometimes, the sounds effects were too loud to distract the conversation of the actresses. It would be wonderful if it has lower volume of sounds in the movie. Despite of this weakness it is safe to say that the movie was truely a great piece.