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      Holy Ghost

      Released Sep 6, 2014 1h 53m Documentary List
      Reviews 91% 100+ Ratings Audience Score Filmmaker Darren Wilson embarks on a spiritual journey. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Best all of Darren's films this far. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Okay so god just wants to grow legs and fix wrists but not cure cancer, if you honestly think this isn't a hoax you're delusional. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member This film is phenomenally pieced together as a simple quest in being lead by the Holy Spirit. It is informative and eye-opening to Christian and non Christian viewers alike. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Great film. The filmmakers really take risks to show the love God has for us. I have experienced what the film shows. I also love the assertion that religion is messed up, not Jesus. Jesus is unique in the offering of unconditional love and mercy if you just risk to ask and receive. Very life and spirit affirming film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member As a Christian I've just got so many problems with this documentary. The people he follows appear to think they're operating in the power of the Holy Spirit but they're just doing cheap parlour tricks. The leg lengthening trick is a nonsense; when you close your eyes for an extended period of time while standing up you will naturally begin to sway and have a hard time keeping balance; the kid whose wrist was slightly sore could move it about the same amount before and after the prayer. The hype is always generated by the ones praying rather than the ones being prayed for. "Woah! This is awesome man! Did you feel that?! Isn't this incredible?!" Meanwhile the one being prayed for is standing there looking nonplussed until they find themselves being psychologically corralled into believing something extraordinary has happened when nothing much has happened at all. Also, telling God to "double it" if they feel something, to give them 'more', and to 'fill them up from the top of their head to the bottom of their feet' is to treat God like some kind of drug. If they really believe they're operating in the power of the Spirit, how about praying for some people with cancer? Or praying for a whole leg to grow back on an amputee? It's infuriating nonsense when they reduce God to this. In the Monaco segment, they'd already been told the bar to go to if they wanted to find someone with a boat so making out it was a miracle that they found someone there was ridiculous. The woman who they found had a troubled past and they claimed to know this through divine revelation. But you don't have to be in places like Monaco for too long to understand this is where people with troubled pasts go to forget. I don't really know much about Todd White but he comes across as a charlatan. The little group of which he is a part are always trying to hype things amongst themselves, almost like they otherwise wouldn't believe their own stories if they weren't affirmed by the others. It's like, "Woah dude, I was just thinking about eggs last week and I just saw a lady eating eggs! Can you BELIEVE that?!" The other guy chimes in, "Wow that is just insane man, that's God right there." No it isn't. At the Korn concert, Todd White asks groups of people to repeat a prayer without explaining to them exactly what they're praying and why. He doesn't explain the gospel, sin, who Jesus is, their need for a Saviour. Therefore, they're just hollow words. In the India segment, the guy with the guitar sings a lot (not very well either, he absolutely destroys Amazing Grace) but he hardly mentions Jesus at all. He tells people they're loved and sings about freedom without actually mentioning that it's Jesus who loves them and Jesus who has paid their ransom. Mark Marx has this smarmy, nervous smile when he's talking to strangers and his line of questioning is just if they'd like to feel nice inside. They get unbelievably stoked about the idea of being permitted inside the Shiva temple but they achieved nothing while they were in there. They didn't witness, they didn't evangelise, they didn't speak to anyone about Jesus...they were just...there. What's the accomplishment? Why the tears of amazement? Here's what the movie does well. Firstly, it gets a bunch of famous faces on screen. Secondly, it shows that if you take risks and just get involved with people in public, interesting situations will develop. But that's all. The director set out to prove in this movie that the Holy Spirit was real. Well, he is. But this movie does more to discredit him than anything else I've ever seen on the subject. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Biased documentary. But the effort that the filmmakers made was pretty incredible. I thought they were pretty rude and encroached on others religion. And it was a bit boring. But, I give it two stars for the effort. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Filmmaker Darren Wilson embarks on a spiritual journey.
      Director
      Darren Wilson
      Screenwriter
      Darren Wilson
      Production Co
      Wanderlust Productions
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 6, 2014, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 25, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 53m
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