The Chosen Season 4
“I hurt inside too, why?”
“Because you've been listening.”
“He is weeping!”
“No matter what happens this week, no matter what you see, feel, think or do. I want you to know that in this world, I loved you as my own. And I will love you ‘till the end.”
The Chosen, season 4
It is striking how The Chosen chooses to tell its story. A story not built on a rote Sunday school education, memorized Bible stories. But a story seemingly built on a complete understanding of human nature with all its flaws and triumphs intact. It is the complete New Testament. The chronicle of Jesus’s triumph over sin and death, interwoven with the human struggle. Illustrating with nuance and power God's love for us, and his incarnational nature. God coming to Earth, being both human and divine. The Chosen may not be as adherent to the biblical text as some may wish. Though it is a meaningfully realization of the human experience, and its relationship to God's redeeming love.
We do not tell stories to make points. We make points by telling stories. It is so often forgotten that stories are at their most powerful when they are allowed to speak. Their creators should not speak for them. No more is this belief adhered to then in The Chosen. It is a series that is allowed to speak for itself. From its writing to its visuals it attempts, with great effectiveness, to allow the transmission of the New Testament to flow without bias or interruption.
The Chosen is a feat, not only of storytelling but filmmaking as well. From the way it constructs its character arcs, to its use of visuals to evoke emotion. The show succeeds on all levels. It takes to heart its title The Chosen, and beautifully conveys how filmmaking is the perfect tool to illustrate God's individual love for each and every one of us. Season to season and episode to episode, we are given heartfelt and meaningful explorations into the human person. We are shown in a concrete way, the beauty and struggle of the redemptive process on a human level.
You and I are not alone in this journey of life. With all its struggles and difficulties. Tragedy is seemingly everywhere. We are inhabitants of a world where suffering is a constant presence. Though there is hope. Director Dallas Jenkins and his team meaningfully convey that hope. It may seem distant in the Chosen's fourth season, a deeply moving meditation on death, pain and the sorrow that comes with it. However, it is in this sorrow that The Chosen powerfully reminds us that God is with us, even in our darkest moments.
Rated TV-PG for intense depictions thematic elements, violence and disturbing images
I found The Chosen to be meaningful, entertaining, powerful, and thought-provoking. I hope in some way you do too.
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