8/6/2023 0 Comments Stir of echoes movie review![]() ![]() Beliefs about the afterlife are so intertwined with people’s spiritual, emotional and denominational make-up-and that Christian’s personal history-that in situations where major Christian beliefs aren’t affected or dismissed, many Christians tend to reserve judgment and avoid spiritual catfights. Ghosts are called psychological hallucinations, demonic entities, lost souls who need to be prayed for or who need to have the gospel preached to them, folks with important messages from the other side. I’ve heard many kinds of explanations about ghosts and haunted houses. This is the kind of movie that almost demands that Christians have some kind of spiritual answer. And the ghost who is haunting his mind (and his family) wants him to do something. After all, it’s his chance to be special. Granted, he’s not as talented as his more “sensitive” son, but he’s game. The next thing the audience knows is Tom has become a “receiver”. His flaky new-ager sister-in-law challenges him to a hypnosis session. He tells his wife he had not known his life would be so “ordinary.” His ordinariness is about to change. ![]() Money is tight and Tom’s musical aspirations have all but faded. Minutes after the opening credits, Tom (another well-played middle-class Kevin Bacon character) learns his wife Maggie is pregnant with their second child. It also tackles the idea of “good neighborhoods” and our culture’s tendency to aspire to specialness. “Stir of Echoes” echoes much of today’s spiritualism. ![]()
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