Right Before Your Eyes is a powerful film that promotes the importance of healthy, strong fatherhood and illustrates the strength of God’s hand in healing the hopeless. Dove awards this film the 12+ Seal of Approval. Bobb!Īlthough Right Before Your Eyes has numerous drinking scenes conveying the hopelessness of addiction, they are not so disgusting that a 12-year-old couldn’t see. He brings a powerful, well-acted, filmed, and directed Christian movie to the low-budget arena which unfortunately, many times, is ‘quality challenged’. David Vincent Bobb, director, cowriter and producer, surprises us. Healthy societies can’t thrive without strong fathers.Īdditionally, the film focuses on our total inability to scale the wall of addiction alone, but with God, all things are possible. The importance of having a responsible, strong, loving father isn’t a frequent topic embraced by films today, but Right Before Your Eyes does just that it is a film of importance. And it’s the same story he typed on the typewriter his mother gave him while he was sick. But this story is biased, it’s how Ben wanted his life to end. It’s the story we see from all the original flashbacks. Even Ambrose takes on a parental-like role at one point, convincing Ethan he can’t turn back on his fatherly duty. Upon first meeting the ferryman, you tell him the story of your life. The father-son relationship is a central theme in this film at least three characters have unresolved issues. At this point, the film takes an intriguing double twist, as we experience the miraculous. What happens next jolts us as Ambrose appears. Just in time, Ethan can grab Lucas, protecting him from inevitable death. Already overwhelmed with emotion, Ethan is horrified as the ball heads for the street, Lucas right behind. Upon his arrival, a boy doesn’t notice Ethan as he jumps out of a swing to kick a ball. Ethan says goodbye and revisits childhood places on his way to see Lucas. The kind, but strict director offered him a Bible and reminded Ethan that his future depends on his relationship with Christ. However, neither his love for Lucas, nor his good friends’ concerns could empower him enough to slay the monster, but by God’s grace, he landed in the Bethesda Mission. Through the intoxicated messes and the ugly setbacks, through jail time, homelessness and hallucinations, Ethan never lost his love for the unreachable star. From there, the spiral soared south as he traded responsibility for liquor and best friends for addiction. The son of a loving, godly mother and a drinking, berating father, Ethan was confronted with family turmoil from an early age.Įventually, he became like his father, drunk or absent, abandoning his family when Lucas was a baby. The gentleman introduces himself as Ambrose and is quite interested as Ethan, through a series of flashbacks, paints the mural of his life. After a stop, a distinguished looking man sits down across from Ethan, and they strike up a conversation. Ethan Rengepis (Adam Ratcliffe) is a recovering alcoholic on a train ride to fulfill his life’s mission, to reunite with his young autistic son, Lucas.
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