Questions...
CCG: 1. How has this film impacted your life? How do you think it will impact others?
Joel Smallbone: The beauty of both the book and movie is that both stories go hand in glove and I was really involved with both from inception to the completion, I was involved on a few levels. One in telling the story and what story we told, secondly in seeing the visuals come to life as an actor and editor, editing alongside my brother Ben. So it was a personal project on both counts.
Going forward, you naturally want people to be inspired by the art you portray, but there are two great themes happening- for about 30 mins of the movie, it dives into the world of slavery, prostitution and trafficking. I hope as an external outlook the viewer is able to be challenged to do something about this issue, to learn and seek more information. But if you look at the wider scope of the film, I hope men are challenged to really fight for those that they love, to step up and step out to love well. For women, I hope they see that their definition is not found in their sexuality or appearance, or in their connection with a man. That they are in fact, image bearers of God.
CCG: 2. What is your favorite scene from the movie?
Joel Smallbone: It's a bit of a dramatic seen, it's actually the moment of the film (and I won't blow the film) but there's this one scene right near the end where we all are there and there is 5 kind of main roles in the theme that all end up at this playground and it's the only time in the film that we are all together it dynamic scen.e it was a hard scene to film, we were rushed but it had everyone there. And naturally at being at such a dynamic scene it was a really great for my character who was monotoned for the rest of the film to get out of his shell for a bit.