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My Sunday Movie Review is for The Celestine Prophecy. This was a book recommended to me by a friend more than ten years ago, and I still never got to it. James Redfield wrote both, the book and the screenplay for this New Age fictional story about synchronocities that lead us to where we need to be and to the people we meet throughout life for reasons.
“Look not from the mind, but from the soul. For the life that is coming, is already before us, waiting to open the world. Just look more closely.” ~ from The First Insight
Storyline:
Disillusioned and temporarily rudderless, John Woodson is about to experience a dramatic and profound metamorphosis. Through a mysterious set of coincidences, he finds himself on an adventure to Peru in search of ancient scrolls, known as the Celestine Prophecy. The prophecy and its nine key insights, predict a new awakening that redefines human life and provides a glimpse into a completely spiritual culture on earth. Resistant at first, skeptical and unsure, John finds that each step he takes, each person he encounters leads him to a new awakening. It is only in this letting go that he finds his destiny and comes to understand the meaning that had escaped him when his adventure began.
—James Redfield
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The Celestine Soothsaying
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‘Prophecy’: Better as book
Way back in the 1990s, author James Redfield initially self-published his novel “The Celestine Prophecy,” which would go on to huge international success. Redfield, along with Barnet Bain and Dan Gordon, wrote the screenplay for and receives a producer credit on this adaptation, but it is hard to imagine the film having anywhere near the effect of its source material.
Essentially a New Age self-actualization story stuffed inside a jungle adventure, the film follows a recently laid-off schoolteacher (Matthew Settle) as he spontaneously sets off for Peru to learn more about a mysterious series of scrolls, each of which contains a specific “insight,” a perceived universal truth about existence and the universe.
Much as with the “What the Bleep Do We Know?” films, it is difficult to assess “Celestine” without acknowledging the extent to which an individual viewer buys into the particular brand of spiritual guidance the movie is pushing.
By severely compacting much of the talk from the dialogue-heavy source novel, the film is unlikely to win new converts to its ideology but may also alienate some of the faithful, who will find only a cursory overview of the book’s notions about energy and coincidence.
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