Faith Filled Family Magazine November 2016 | Page 53

that is actually not the school’s
responsibility, but the parent- or
the family’s- responsibility.
So the more the family can lean
in on each other, struggle together, work together, pray together,
and do life together, I think they
will be much stronger.

because of the hard circumstances and his choices. He is
physically trying to save these
beautiful young ladies, but at the
same time, he is falling in love
with one of them because of her
incredible strength.

Despite her circumstances, and
despite what people are telling
Once again, that’s a generaliza- her, she still has this incredible
tion, and there are many excep- strength. So there is almost this
tions. There are no absolutes dichotomy happening where he
in that statement as there are is attempting to save her physimany variables. I think part of cally, and she is saving him althe general struggle we are hav- most mentally/spiritually. I think
ing in wanting to raise spiritually this is beautiful and a very real
sensitive men in this culture, and example of what a strong, Godday and age.
fear ing woman looks like.
With this message, are you In watching the story, I was
hoping to reach women/young wonder how- despite knowing
women with the knowledge that what was happening was
that they have value? It is a bad and illegal- James contintwo-sided issue.
ues to make bad decisions.
Yes, certainly. The other side to Is it out of fear or something
this situation is that women do more? He ends up making one
have worth, and they do have bad decision after another.
value. As young men, Luke and I think there were two things
I are speaking on the perspec- at play for him. James was so
tive of what we are facing as stuck in his own issue of the loss
young men. But, yes, a lot of it of his wife, and it just kind of ruis directed to young men, and ined him. It is not making him
young women. You were cre- stronger, and he is becoming reated as ladies under God. You sentful as he is not dealing with
are image-bearers of God. In it that well. Then, subsequently,
a time when your worth is more the loss of his daughter and that
defined by your form and you his daughter is taken from him.
figure, your rate of success, your
dress, or the guy that you have So when he sits back, and noon your arm, that true identity of tices that things are awry, he
a woman is found in who they looks at these young ladies
are in Him and under God.
who are confident in what they
are going to become- a maid or
We take it upon ourselves at ev- housekeeper or something, and
ery opportunity we can to bring feels they must be some form
forth this message.
of an illegal immigrant or something. He feels that he has his
Stepping back into the film world, own things to deal with, and that
and into this beautiful moment, he needs to see this through bemy character James is pretty cause he doesn’t know of any
down and out. He’s struggling better point. Frankly, he didn’t

have the character. He’s honestly given up.
Even if he were told what to do,
it was at that moment when he
meets the guys for the first time
and senses deep within his spirit
that something is awry. It is by
seeing their faces and immediate connecting of the dots that
he notices something isn’t right.
But at that point, he’s outnumbered, and it’s just too late. He
feels he couldn’t do anything.
Not to blow the cover of the film,
but that’s where the real story is
from then on.
What lead you to specifically
make a movie on human trafficking?
There are two vantage points. If
you pull back the lens, and look
at this movie from a thirty thousand foot view, it is really what
we started this conversation
with. It is a conversation starter
for young men to stand up and
start to love well. It is a conversation starter for young women
to know that no matter what has
been done to me, no matter what
has been said to me, my definition is not found in any man. It is
found in a deeper truth that I am
an image bearer of God. That is
where I will find my definition, my
worth, and my strength.
If you go down into the nuts and
bolts of it, in the Priceless Movement, we have a human being
that can be bought and sold into
slavery. Love can be bought,
pleasure can be bought, and it’s
prostitution. It’s tragic.
In the middle of the film, it kicks
in as to what true love really
looks like, and an opportunity to