Kind of late....

....but we finally saw The Nativity Story at the movies yesterday. We had wanted to see it before Christmas but didn't. Now it was at the cheap movie theater and Sujeet had off from work yesterday so we decided to go see it.

I liked it! It was a pretty good story of what could have been going on in the lives of the people during that time. Of course they add in things that are not mentioned in the bible, but most(not all) of it seems realistic.

I liked the way Mary and Joseph interacted, and wonder if it was really like that or not. I guess we won't know until we can ask them about in Heaven. :) It makes you also realize that while we accept the story of Mary becoming pregnant by the Holy Spirit, her family and her town would not have believed her so easily and could think of her very badly. But I like the way they portray Mary and Joseph handling it in the movie. I do imagine Joseph to be the kind of man he was in the movie, or else God wouldn't want him fathering his son. It was great.

One more thing, was it shows the faith and worry Mary may have faced, from the day of hearing she would conceive through the Holy Spirit until the day she actually felt a baby moving inside of her, confirming everything to be true. Waiting until that moment must have been scary, when you wonder "is it really true? or am I crazy?". The interaction with her cousin Elizabeth is great too.

A couple issues I had were...
Why was the angel so serious and almost creepy looking/sounding? I think they should have made him much more joyful and excited as a person, especially when announcing the good news to the shepherds. And they left out the heavenly hosts rejoicing thing, and just had the one angel announcing solemnly. I wanted to see him at least excitedly say something. I mean come on, all of heaven was waiting for this moment, they could have made him more joyous. :P Also, Mary could have been a bit more smiley when the shepherds and wise men came.

Also they made up some star alignment mumbo jumbo for the reason that the wise men followed the star to the birth of Jesus. I don't know about that, but I think they just made it up. Who knows...