Movie Review: Nativity
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006This isn’t really a movie review because I missed at least half of the movie, but I intended to write something, so here goes. I’ve read a number of movie reviews of the Nativity, but so many of them seemed like they were written before viewing the movie that I really had no expectations for the movie. I was pleased with what I saw.
The movie begins with Herod’s men killing the boys two years and younger in Bethlehem, prophecied in the Old Testament as “Rachel weeping for her children, for they are no more.” It then flashes back a year before to the little town in Galilee where we meet Mary and Joseph before their engagement, where the story develops forward again. (more…)
