Education: Seven Days in Utopia Movie
About
Seven Days in Utopia provides a helpful look into a wide variety of life’s aspects like family issues, sports, jobs, mentoring, failures, etc.More importantly, the movie captures the importance of God and his word for life. The movie leads to an evangelistic training resource entitled “Did he make the putt?” per the ending, and explains more about the background, book, production, scenes, and purpose. The overall purpose is to guide people away from glorifying (or damaging) themselves or this life in order to put one’s trust fully in God and the gospel.
The symbolism used in the movie of burying one’s sins can be a helpful teaching aid to understand how sin really is put to death through Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection described throughout the Bible and teachings of Christianity. Symbolism always comes with caution in order for people to rightly teach or learn from it, as some mistakenly use symbolism as a consistent way of living in an attempt to “treat” their sins vs. “trust” they truly are dealt with by God through the gospel. Overall the movie kept interest for the viewers with humor as well as intensity and drama accurately describing real life. The former is when someone is always looking for aspects in life to “help” them vs. the latter truly “heals,” transforms, and matures them to follow God in real life.
Product Description
SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA follows the story of Luke Chisolm (Lucas Black), a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford (Robert Duvall). But Johnny's more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life force Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future. Based on David L. Cook's best-selling book Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia, SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA also stars Melissa Leo, Deborah Ann Woll, Brian Geraghty, Jerry Ferrera, Joseph Lyle Taylor, KJ Choi and Kathy Baker. The film is directed by Matthew Dean Russell from a script by Cook, Rob Levine, Russell and Sandra Thrift. The film was produced by Mark G. Mathis (Brick, Precious) and Jason M. Berman (The Dry Land).
Premiering in Theaters September 2nd 2011
Director
Matt Dean Russell
Cast
Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Melissa Leo, Deborah Ann Woll, Brian Geraghty, Kathy Baker, KJ Choi, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Madison Burge