Background: The Book of Job

I really enjoyed the reading of the Job story because it carried a lesson that my mother had taught me through this same story. The lesson was that some times bad things happen to good people, and that most of the time its out of our control. Job was known as a righteous man to many but was allowed to be tampered with by Satan himself solely to prove the point that if hewas to lose all he has in the world, he would still remain loyal and faithful to the higher power also known as God. Job had lost family members, his cattle, crops, and his own health; though expected of all man placed in this situation, it seemed to be unacceptable for the righteous Job to lose all understanding and sense of mind in terms of his faith to his God. After being questioned by God, this seemed to have given Job some kind of understanding which turned out to be enough to hold his sense of mind until God rewarded him with twice of what he had before.

To me films today examine suffering by taking a character with some sort of struggle and ending the film proving that there is a way to overcome it. How films do this is they setup the film so the viewer raises questions in their mind allowing them to make some sort of a connection. An example of a film using this concept would be "Taken". The film was basically about a paranoid father who fears the thought of something bad happening to his young daughter preparing herself to travel outside of the country somewhat on her own. The father knows much about dangerous possibilities in the world because he used to work for a special agency, which is why he suffers mentally over the idea of his daughter being kidnapped on her first time on her own, because he feels it is his fault for allowing her to leave in the first place. We can connect this to Job because other than his illness, Job suffered mentally as well, not understanding why God has allowed all of this negativity upon his life.