Something Strange about the Johnsons

Now. I was given this link to watch...

29 minutes and 6 seconds of my life that I will never get back.



But while watching this short film, it wasn't just shock, but I was quite inquisitive wondering what the writer was actually trying to portray in this film.
There's issues of incest, rape, power, and the distorted reality of love.
The film is a lot deeper than just what you see.

I don't want to give too much away, but I did a little research on the writer, Ari Arster and he came up with the idea while speaking to one of his friends (who happens to me the main character of the film) about taboo subjects and topics that could never be made into film-- and this was one of them!

But there are some scenes in this film that are so disturbing-- there's a particular scene (well two) where the mother actually witnesses her own son and husband in the act, but the husband is actually the victim. Again, the wife is in her bedroom and hears faint cries--her son and father are doing the act of 'love' as the son addresses it by-- and the wife knows what's going on, but to ignore it she just turns the volume up.. and as she turns it up, the screaming gets louder..
It's a powerful scene and also disturbing--how can you sit there and know what is going on in your own house and sit through it?

On Youtube.. everyone has their own views-- as disturbing as it may be, this actually does go on behind closed doors--but it's never spoken of because of how stigmatized it is.

I'm still a little disturbed, fascinated, and scared all at the same time.
Because scripture says in Timothy:

1But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

6They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth—men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

You see that?

Even the main character, he HATED his mother because she didn't love him the way he did.
There's things in this world.. and there are issues that are kept in the dark, but maybe they need to be brought to life so people who are suffering will find solitude.

Seriously--this film just shone light on the abuse that is going on in homes and kept under wraps.

Hm.