Christian Movie Review: High Calling

February 23, 2023262 views0

Christian Movie Review: High Calling

2023-02-23T09:30:08+01:00

By Church News

“High Calling” from The Mount Zion Film Productions was written and produced by Evangelist Gloria Bamiloye.A nostalgic aspect of this production was the soundtrack which was a remake of Like a Tree from Jay-Mikee’s 2013 album A Living Sacrifice.This one was so much better and was accompanied by some really nice chants. The use of portraits in some settings in “High Calling” was to great aesthetic effect.The acting in “High Calling” was excellent. Fiyinfolu CP Okedare who plays John delivers his dialogue; very impressive and Kayode Owojori wonderfully portrays the nature of the relationship between John and his father respectively.John is a lover of God who has finished his undergraduate studies with a third-class degree and his brother Edward, played by Damilola Mike-Bamiloye and his father point to what they perceive as John’s over-zealousness for church activities as the cause.John however makes it clear that he studied his books and didn’t tempt God by being unserious. He doesn’t let the result get to him much though, as he believes that he is not defined by that result but by God’s high calling upon his life.In John, we find a man who sees and glorifies God in everything. Edward, on the other hand, is nonchalant towards his relationship with God; their father as well sees involvement in service to God in a church as “religious stuff”.The film counters wrong notions of who a believer is; it corrects the stereotype about people actively involved in service to God being termed as pastors, thereby speaking against the spirit of religion that limits Christianity to going around doing religious activities.This series helps draw the very thin line at surface value, in being a disciple of Jesus or just a nominal Christian.ALSO READ: Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist (Christian Movie Review)