Saving Grace
© James C. Hess
In a few weeks the fall movie season will start. Overall, it will be more of the same.
From now until then a few weeks will slip through the cracks of time, mostly unnoticed.
I look forward to these few weeks. I look forward to these few weeks because it is during this time that the really good films and movies come out. The films and movies that get the short end of the stick, that turn out to be sleepers, that prove the naysayers wrong.
Oh, so, wrong.
For example "Saving Grace".
I heard about this film several months ago. Then the critics and the know-it-alls had little good to say about it. Now they can say nothing but good.
And they are, for these remarks, nothing less than hypocrites.
"Saving Grace" is not a great film. It is a good film. Nothing more. That it is a good film despite what has been said about it before goes to say something about critics, about the know-it-alls, about their disparaging remarks months ago, and what they really don't know when it comes to taste in films and movies.
"Saving Grace", as the title suggests somewhat, is about a woman named Grace. Her husband falls, jumps, or is ejected against his will from an airplane. Not good this. Suffice it to say it he warrants a closed-casket service.
It is around this time that Grace learns certain truths about her husband. Certain truths that leads her to learn certain truths about herself. For example, she has been living in a lie: Although she lives in a sprawling country home she is, simply, financially bankrupt, owing to her husband, and has no means to pay debt owed.
Further, she learns her husband was not even close to being a nice person. Everyone in the village knows this. Everyone but Grace. And when she learns this her world begins to crumble.
In haste.
Grace is visibly upset when the movers come to collect her material belongings to pay her debts. But she is willing to let them go.
What she is not willing let go, though, is her garden.
And it is in the garden that she is, to put it bluntly, saved. By no less than the humble albeit not-so honest gardener.
He is named Matthew (Craig Ferguson, who also co-wrote the story). Matthew, when he is not tending the garden, works at the vicarage.
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