What a touching story.

Hi guys, so I saw a movie recently. A real life event turned to  a movie. The name of the movie is Captive it is based on the book Unlikely Angel by Ashley Smith.  It was directed by Jerry Jameson and it runs for 97 minutes.  Captive is an American crime-drama movie it was released in september 18, 2015 
   

             Captive is a true story about Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) a prisoner who broke out from the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on March 11, 2005.  He runs into Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) a single mother who was trying to stop doing drugs because she was refused custody of her daughter because she was a drug addict .  Brian claims he broke out from prison because he heard that he had a son and the justice system was unfair to him. Brian then ran into Ashley and hides out in her house holding her captive. In their little time together, Ashley saw that Brian was not really a bad guy and together they read a book THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE  by Rick Warren and they both made a decision to change their lives for good.The movie ends when Brian finally lets Ashley go and she brought the police to arrest him.

 Captivity is not only about being bound or locked up in a place we can also be made captives by our  actions . In a way both Brian and Ashley were in captivity. Brian was a captive to vengeance because he felt he was not given a fair sentence and he was charged with a crime he did not commit while Ashley was a captive to drug. If we want to come out of any form of captivity we have to pray to God for wisdom and direction in any area of life we are facing difficulty. In this movie the book by Rick Warren THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE  gave Ashley and Brian guidance and freedom from their captivity. Ashley stopped drugs and gets back custody of her daughter and today she is happily married and has more kids while   Brian accepted his sentence and he gets to see his son once he turns 18.

The Greatest Showman

The greatest showman is a movie directed by Michael Gracey. It was released on Dec 20th 2017 and it runs for 105 minutes. The cast of the movie includes Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Zendeya and many more people.

The storyline begins with a poor tailor and his young son Peter. Though they were poor, Peter never let that to hinder him because he had big dreams for himself, he wanted to be a showman. Peter fell in love with a rich man's daughter Charity played by Michelle Williams. The girls father was against their relationship and he sent his daughter to a boarding school. Not long after that Peter's father died and he became orphaned and homeless. Peter and Charity still kept in touch until Charity graduated and they got married. 

 After many years Peter  who was struggling to cater for his family of a wife and two daughters was laid off from work because of the bad situation of the economy. So he decided to start his own business and he opened a museum but no one was buying ticket to visit it. Then his daughter suggested that maybe if there was something extraordinary to see many people would have come to see it. This reminded  Peter of his childhood fantasy of becoming a showman so he gathered people from around the world who were seen as abnormal like a bearded woman, a very hairy man, a dwarf e.t.c to form the performers in his circus. He got a manager Phillip Carlyle played by Zac Efron to help manage the shows. The first show was a hit, many people trooped in to watch it but some people saw the performers as freaks and evil so they wanted them to live their community.

Despite the opposition from a large number of people, P.T Barnum did not give up. He continued to organize his shows and he even went on tour. With the money from the shows he was able to care for his family and he bought a new house for them. After the tour the performers were beaten up and the theater was burnt down. Even then Peter did not give up he got a land set up a tent and continued performing.

This movie is a wonderful movie with a great storyline and moral lesson.  One lesson I learnt from this movie is persistence. P.T Barnum was persistent. He survived being orphaned at a young age, being poor, being jobless and the one that amazed me most  his critics. After his theater was burnt down he did not give up he continued performing his shows. I have made up my mind to be persistent like Peter Barnum.  This movie is suitable for all ages both young and old.