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Hunt for the Wilderpeople – Foster Family Values

In Ecclesiastes 4:9 we read: ?Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help.? (NRSV) Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a cinematic version of those words.

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The Dark Horse – A Saving Presence

Based on a true story, The Dark Horse, follows Genesis (Gen) Potini, a one-time chess champion who spent years in and out of mental hospitals. While it?s not unusual for stories to have a Christ Figure who is mentally ill, I found the unusual way that Gen serves in that role to be both fresh and challenging.

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