Comments about ‘Stories told in quiet voice can best move emotions’

Thank you for your appreciation for what our innerself needs. I always enjoy your creative word useage.

You don't know true art. This is why I left the church!

What a sad story... to leave the gospel because you feel that the members don't know true art? Sad.

Thanks once more to Jerry Johnston for an insightful article. I'm reminded a scene from Gone With the Wind that always moved me. It's the one where Rhett made Scarlet put on her most flamboyant clothes and attend the birthday party where all the town gossips would be sure to make mincemeat of her. But her ever kind and generous friend and hostess went out of her way to genuinely welcome her and extend the hand of love and forgiveness in front of the other guests. I always wanted to have Scarlet's spunk and Meg's Christlike nature. It had a powerful and thought-provoking influence on me, as I believe "true" stories and art should.

I'm confused about the comment from R. Hutcher. Did he leave the Church because he thinks Jerry Johnston doesn't know true art?

You lost me at "He uses Hollywood's favorite obscenity." I'm so tired of that particular obscenity creeping into every movie, TV program, book, you name it. Despite what certain people may think, it is totally unnessesary and I will not watch anything that contains that kind of language. I wish writers were talented enough to get their message across without using crassness. I for one deserve better than this, and so my attention will be elsewhere when this movie comes out. Oh, and by the way, true art uses true creativity. This aint it!

I haven't seen the movie, but I'd like to. But the review here doesn't say much about the movie, does it. All I know, is that it isn't "To Kill a Mocking Bird" book or movie. Who said it had to be? Lets judge it by ITS standards before we say if it's worthwhile or not. Just because Dutcher may be more interested in Oliver Stone's bombast than Horton Foote, or Ozu, or even kitch, doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to be discussed. If there are real flaws with the movie, as I'm sure there are, then lets discuss them instead of defining its failure in terms of what its not. Let us move beyond that.

If we think that this film is a spade, lets call it a "spade" instead of "not a rake." Only when we call a thing by its name can we realize that a shovel is useful for digging holes and not for raking leaves. Let us do the film that justice.

I don't like to hear profanity any more than the next guy. I don't like it. But let us be clear about the film's reasons, and not just our own.

Having an honest "Discussion" about bad behavior is pretty idiotic. Often it seems like we want to be known as serving God but we don't want to offend the Devil. ( a quote I read recently) Bad behavior, like bad language, is pretty easy to identify and avoid. Especially if we have someone warn us before hand. It sounds like Mr Hutcher has chosen his "God", why choose to be with him?

Mr. Hutcher is a fellow traveler of ours who is spoofing Richard Dutcher and others like him who find something in this world that they value more than Heavenly Father and leave the Church to pursue it. Dont get too worked up over his comments. Hes sarcastically agreeing with us. I for one find it amusing.

I have to say that it truly saddens me to see so many Latter Day Saints expressing a desire to see this movie. It is a work of evil. The movie opens with the most extreme profanity serving double duty as the most profound blasphemy. The movie also contains nudity, for which we as Latter Day Saints ought to have a zero tolerance. The movies violence is about on par with the video of Nick Bergs beheading. It is unbecoming of a Latter Day Saint to watch one man destroy anothers face by repeatedly smashing it with a brick. Besides all of that, the movie is fundamentally darkness and despair right down to the core.

Unless you want to end up as lost, empty, and spiritually dead as this movies author, dont go see it. It is a work of darkness. Its evil.