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So Help Me God! (2009) Online
2009 Simon Cole
Original Title :
So Help Me God!
Genre :
Movie / Documentary
Year :
2009
Directror :
Simon Cole
Writer :
Simon Cole
Budget :
$285,000
Type :
Movie
Time :
52min
Rating :
6.7/10

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So Help Me God! (2009) Online

Life is looking good for Nigel Cole. He's a successful filmmaker and the director of one of Britain's most popular films. He loves his job, his beautiful wife and his car - what more could a man desire? Everything is looking rosy, at least from the outside. But Nigel Cole has a gaping hole inside. Something is missing. Could it be a missing connection to God? This documentary, the first collaboration from the acclaimed Cole Brothers (Ben, Nigel & Simon Cole), is a witty, exploratory journey across America in search of God in different cultures. On his travels the filmmaker and protagonist meets with Mormons, Muslims, Jews and Jehovahs in hope they can help to fill the hole he feels inside him. The film approaches complex yet universal questions about God and religion in an entirely accessible way.
Credited cast:
Simon Cole Simon Cole - Himself


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Freighton

Freighton

In fourth grade, Sister Angela Marie asked us to try to imagine the deluge from which Noah, his Ark and all the animals were provided safe haven. So I imagined myself drowning next to the Ark...and a fish swam right up to me! "Sister Angela Marie!" I said while raising my hand. "All life on earth was wiped out by the flood, right?" "Of course, Anthony!" She droned…"Then how did the fish die?", was my reflex response question.....I will never, EVER forget her reaction. She turned beet red and shrieked; hysterical, Madwoman of Chiallot screams, "YOU! …WITH YOUR PUNY LITTLE MIND!...QUESTIONING THESE SACRED TRUTHS !?!?"

Not really, I thought...I just wanted to know how the fish died! Simon Cole is on a quest to fill the spiritual void he yearns to rid himself of. He DESPERATELY wants to believe! Well, that's me, too. To be brutally honest, I would imagine it would take a very special combination of circumstances for you to rate this 8*, like I did! Simon Cole makes it a point to ask all the WRONG questions. He doesn't have to worry about getting expelled from 9th grade Catholic School for asking them! Neither does he seem very concerned with entertaining his audience nor making them laugh...Like Bill Maher was in RELIGILOUS! With only a couple exceptions, he treats the interviewees in his film with ample respect. He lets their own words serve as the quicksand that sinks the lot of them! If that is part of what he wanted to accomplish in making "SO HELP ME", I would say he has achieved his goal in this 52 minute documentary.

He interviews clerics, ministers, rabbis, priests, preachers, ayatollahs, lay persons and holy men alike, from at least 30 different religious persuasions. What stands out so vividly is how, almost without exception, each particular denomination claims so assiduously and self- righteously to have a total monopoly on the truth! As Cole points out…"Either they're ALL right…or ONLY ONE is right!...I believe they're ALL right!" In the end, Cole's quixotic journey does bring him a degree of inner peace.

I strongly recommend "SO HELP ME GOD" to all members who consider themselves spiritual persons who revel in asking all kinds of questions!

SOLID 8* - ENJOY! / DISFRUTELA!

Any comments, questions or observations, in English or Español, are most welcome!.....