I am very happy to report that I was wrong about that, it ended up being a way more dramatic of a film that I would have thought. A Place Beyond The Pines is a movie that I have some thoughts on for sure.
A Place Beyond The Pines is really a paralleled generation story. Luke and Avery are two very different people. Luke is a man who just found out he is a father, and is trying to support his ex by robbing banks and their son. Avery is a rookie police officer who is trying to do good in the world. They only ever meet one time, when Avery kills Luke during a manhunt. This incident changes Avery's life in ways he would never expect. Avery is injured in the manhunt as well and when he wakes from surgery, his eyes are opened to what the police force he works for s really like. Avery finds out that they are corrupt. He stands by his morals (mostly) and repots the whole department for corruption. Setting him on a political career.
Luke's son, Jason, and Avery's son, A.J. end up going to the same high school. Jason is a lost kid who has a step father who loves him, and a mother who did everything she could to keep help happy. A.J. grew up with a distant father, divorced parents, and a wealthier background. When the two meet things start to go sideways. Neither one knows about their father's past. However, when Jason does some research into his biological father, things change for him.
He ends up fighting with A.J. and that leads to him kidnapping Avery and taking him to the woods. That is where is confronts his father's past, and the man who took him out of this world.
When first watching the movie, it was ok. However, sitting with it the last few days, it has left a lasting impression. I think, for me, it's because I think most people don't show how much hurt this world has caused them on the outside, like the characters do here. However, we have all been on that level of hurt one way or another. I think seeing it be played out is hard to watch.
My God moment for this movie is the end when Jason and Avery are in the woods. Jason has him a gunpoint and is asking for what happened. What the audience knows, that none of the other main characters do, is that Avery did not shoot Luke in self defense, he shot first. Avery murdered Luke. Since it happened, Avery has been rattle with the guilty secret ever since. He has always felt guilty for taking Jason's father away from him. This is the first time he has been face to face with Jason since he was a baby. While Avery doesn't want to die, he know that ultimately it would "serve him right" because of the truth he knows. Yet, Jason, in all of his anger, walks away. He leaves him in the woods unharmed.
I don't think that Jason showed forgiveness in the moment. However, God did. We are all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. We all deserved to die, yet we where spared.
My God moment and the Author God moment weren't the same but follow the same line. Mr. Stranogolagalli's used John 17:1
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the hour has come. Glorify you Son, that you Son may glorify you..."
He talks about how earlier in the movie Avery is follow a police officer into the woods to have a "talk". When he realizes that something is up, he turns around and speeds to his father's house for help.
We can do the same thing. We can turn and run to the Father whenever we are in need or any help at any time.
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