A Review of the Movie "Mary" on Netflix

A Netflix Mary Movie Review and Its Extra-Biblical Storyline

Netflix made a movie about Mary, directed by Roman Catholic DJ Caruso, who made Redeeming Love, the dreadful romance based on the book of Hosea. The movie Mary begins with her saying,.

You may think you know my story. Trust me, you don't.

So this will be a bunch of extra biblical nonsense. After all, it's produced by Joel Osteen. The angel Gabriel appears to Joachim and Anne and tells them they will have a daughter who must be given to serve God in the temple.

When she is older, they take her to the prophetess Anna, and Mary is presented in the temple as the vessel of the promise. There's a weird scene where Satan tries to seduce Mary, and then Mary stares down the brutal King Herod, played by Hannibal Lecter.

Mary's parents agree to marry her to a man named Joseph, and she argues with their decision as if they're selling her off. She meets Joseph and is immediately belittling of him, just like the Mary in the previous year's Journey to Bethlehem.

The Film's Distorted Nativity and Mary Narrative

This trope is already tired. The angel Gabriel appears to Mary and says she will be with child, and while he does say the child will reign over the house of David, he does not mention the Holy Spirit or that the child will be the Son of God.

He says all the world will know him because she is blessed among women. Since Mary is found to be pregnant, she's kicked out of the temple. She meets with her cousin Elizabeth, who's really not all that old, and she tells her, trust the strength inside you.

And she doesn't mean Jesus with whom she's pregnant, so this is one of those believe-in-yourself movies. When she gives birth to Jesus, she tells him, I choose you just as you chose me. And in the very last line of the film, she says, love would cost you.

Dearly. It will pierce your heart, but in the end, love will save the world. No.

The Film's Rejection of the Gospel Message

Shepherds or magi come to visit Jesus. Joseph kills a guy, yes really, and there are many other problems. But in short, the Netflix movie Mary is an unbiblical mess with no gospel, no message that Jesus Christ has come to save his people from their sins.

Avoid these rewrites of history and stick with the truth when we understand the text.