Fireproof: (Movie Review) Praises and criticism

By Samuel Goldwyn films and Sherwood Pictures.

The film stars Kirk Cameron (Caleb Holt) and Erin Bethea (Catherine Holt). It’s a Christian film I highly recommend.

So here are some issues I saw in the movie that confirms what I already know anyway.

- That having God in the relationship is of utmost importance.
- That communication is vital in relationships
- That men and women really do think differently and have different ways of expressing, needing and giving love
- That knowing your partner (spouse or girlfriend/boyfriend) is important, you think you might be giving all you’ve got already “IN YOUR OWN WAY” but she/he isn’t seeing it because he/she wants to be loved a different way.
- That pornography and adultery destroys marriages
- That love, relationship and marriage is A DECISION and it’s WORK but WORTH IT.

And here are some that I’ve found Filipino couples might have trouble relating to in the movie:

- There’s no divorce in the Philippines
- It’s rare that a Filipina would have issues with her husband about not doing household chores. If the men does and helps, we’ll be overjoyed, if not, we just do it.
- It’s often the men who cheats or have flings outside the marriage.
- Our women are not that liberated yet nor independent to want to abandon the marriage first unless there’s adultery.
- Fighting over who should cook.

Saw a lot of cultural differences there nevertheless I still recommend the movie for its positive values. Not just to married couples but to single ones too who are planning, wanting and hoping to get married.

Favorite scenes: The presenting of salvation and Jesus with the cross on the field scene, salt and pepper illustration scene.

Favorite line: You don’t leave your partner (or something like that, can’t remember exactly).