![]() (Are the children of single mothers in special need of the word?) And a Kent parish is giving away £10,000 worth of film tickets to single-parent families. Even the Methodists have written a special Narnia-themed service. The Christian radio station Premier is urging churches to hold services on the theme of The Gospel According to Narnia. But then, that is also deeply faithful to the book's own arm-twisting emotional call to believers.ĭisney is deliberately promoting this film to the religious - it has appointed Outreach, an evangelical publisher, to promote the Christian message behind the movie in British churches. By the end, it feels profoundly manipulative, as Disney usually does. But from its opening scenes of the bombing of their Finchley home in the blitz and the tear-jerking evacuation from their mother in a (spotlessly clean) steam train, there is an emotional undertow to this film that tugs on the heart-strings from the first frames. The four English children and their world are all authentically CS Lewis olde England. ![]() It is beautiful to look at and wonderfully acted. This new Disney film is a remarkably faithful rendition of the book - faithful in both senses. ![]()
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