Film Analysis Of The Movie Jesus Camp: Movie Review

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Jesus camp is a documentary movie, I got interested in the movie, not only because am a Christian, but because of other important things which I saw while watching the movie. The movie Jesus camp was directed and produced by two people namely: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. It was filmed in different locations, at the beginning of the film, it started by showing the name of the church which is “Christ Triumphant Church” which is located in Missouri, also the camp in which they children were being taken to is located in Devils Lake, North Dakota and lastly few minutes before the movie ended, they were in Washington Dc in front of the white house. This movie was made was released in September 29, 2006 in New York. The movie was rated PG 13 which I don’t why it was rated that way, because there was no act of violence, dirty words or any bad thing recorded in the movie, but on the other hand, I feel that the movie was rated PG 13 because of the way the talked about the political issues and the abortion, but other than that, the movie received a good rating from the public, although there are people who will hate the movie, criticize it and warn others not to …show more content…

It’s like a power they receive from the Holy Spirit. There are three main kids who were been interviewed in the movie respectively are: Rachel, Tory and Levi and I found this interesting as each of the kids had something very important to say about being a Christian or

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