Loving the Bad Man

Recurring themes through this film would have the viewer believe that this film is all about redemption, faith, and the power of forgiveness. Bull. This entire film is a propogandistic attempt to push an agenda:

Abortion is wrong on all fronts regardless of the reason.

I'm surprised they didn't make the character, Julie, dying from a rare form of ovarian cancer that she endures rather than abort the child to save her life. Perhaps even the film makers saw this as over the top.

Don't be fooled folks, this is a "Right-to-Lifer" film that places a much smaller value on the vessel (Julie) than either the unborn baby, or the rapist (Mike) who slowly is becoming a redeemed character through this heart-tugging drama.

The Christian ladies who see this will definitely have their heart warmed, the Christian men who see this will be able to say, "See - the Abortion Doctor I killed last week was deserving of what he got". The rest of us who see this will be waiting for the setup where Mike gets out of Prison, falls into Julie's trap, and is castrated for what he did as she confesses to aborting his diseased offspring from herself a week after the rape and let's Mike know it was her neighbor's baby she was passing off as her own.

Unfortunately, our happy ending will never come.

If you have not yet seen this film, I recommend that you don't. Sexual assault and rape are difficult topics to address in film, although it can be done in a way that both preserves the dignity of the victim and states a necessary message. This (frankly I don't even want to call it a film) steaming pile of trash did neither.

Instead, it's painfully clear that it was written by three men who have never, at and point in their lives, spoken to a rape victim. The female lead is treated like a prop, only a plot device to tell the stories of the men in her life. As a result, anyone watching this is being force fed the message that it's the victims responsibility to love and forgive their rapist so that he can have an uplifting redemption story. This content is harmful, and I would discourage anyone from watching it. Ignorance is better than misinformation after all.

The story itself was full of gaps, non séquitors and lack of context but the dramatic impact was unmistakable. Improbable as it was it was still moving.

I don't even write negative reviews. I try not to. I live by the motto If I don't have anything nice to say- to keep it moving. But I feel morally obligated to tell you - as a Woman , who is also a Christian, who is also Pro Life, who is also a rape survivor, I am offended by everyone who decided that this script, was okay. Never do I believe that a woman should be forced to birth a child- I believe that is her decision that she have to take up with God. ESP, in the cases of rape, incest, health complications. So- to take the seriousness of this trauma & make light, fun, and w/ obvious no research involved- is offensive.

I knew a man wrote this before I looked it up. And to see Three of them did, explains a lot. You mad the man - the rapist - the victim. Your message is, if the victim doesn't have empathy towards her abuser, she's less of a Christian. I mean... this is absolutely ridiculous.

I pray that after all these years, there's regret in its creation. Even with the actors. I'm an actor. I get wanting work. But we also have a responsibility with the stories we tell.

• Shawntay.

Fundamentalist christian propaganda that encourages people who have been raped to marry their rapists.