SPOILER ALERT (reflection on): No Strings Attached [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411238/]

Before you go Matthew 7-ing me on why I would watch a movie like this, let me explain it is a bit of a mystery to me too still as well as I am still trying to discern God's motives behind me watching this film. Though I would have to confess the movie did make me cry, especially at the end. But this post is not about that, like all my other posts regarding movies, it is to offer a Christian perspective and intended to guide and spark discussion should find yourself in the situation where you have also seen this movie and want to discuss it with your peer/social group regarding what you saw.

Anyhow, despite this being a non-Christian film and there being more sensuality than most Christians might be comfortable with or maybe my friend EW is just 'extra sensitive' about this issue. Nonetheless, I would say that this movie did carry the important message and aided me in my research for the book I am working on which points out that relationships/marriage are not meant to be limited solely to a physical attraction. It also delivered this message effectively in the sense that it dispelled potential cultural emphasis on casual sex with the reality that we ought to be in a committed relationship (as Christians would know this as marriage) with the people we choose to have intercourse with. Personally I believe this can be necessary for all forms of touch that invoke any passionate feelings though sadly I would say our culture has thus shaped a many a Christians to disagree with my viewpoint in one form or the other ('alas').

I honestly am at a bit of a writer's block on what else to say about this movie at this point, so maybe I will have to resort to personal opinion and state there were too many sexual references with some of the jokes and that might be why I did not laugh as much as the next person might watching the movie. Overall, I liked it better than some of the other movies I've seen lately namely due to having to take others there like my younger brother with Tron Legacy; however that might be just my own opinion and that movie had some wisdom in and of itself as well. Perhaps when I have had more time to reflect on what can be general/objective Christian viewpoints on this movie, I will revise this entry.