Alone Yet Not Alone 2013 720pHD
Alone Yet Not Alone 2013 720pHD
Genres: History
Directors: Ray Bengston, George D. Escobar
Writers: Tracy Leininger Craven (book), George D. Escobar
Stars: Kelly Greyson, Natalie Racoosin, Jenn Gotzon
Alone yet Not Alone is a 2013 American recorded enterprise show film coordinated by Ray Bengston and co-coordinated by George D. Escobar (Advent Film Group), featuring Kelly Greyson, Jenn Gotzon, and Clay Walker. The film gets its title from the German song "Allein, und doch nicht ganz allein" which the Leininger family often sang together, and depends on Tracy Leininger Craven's novel of the same name and the genuine story of Barbara and Regina Leininger, who were persuasively taken from their Pennsylvanian German settler family's home by the Delaware Indians in the 1755 Penn's Creek Massacre amid the French and Indian War.
The film is as often as possible marked as a Christian movie. It was granted the 5 Dove seal of endorsement from The Dove Foundation. Alone yet Not Alone additionally got a selection for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2013 for its title tune, "Alone yet Not Alone", however the assignment was cancelled two weeks later.
Film Review: In the eighteenth century, frontier America was a place that is known for abundant guarantee. A great many Europeans, scanning for opportunity and wealth, cruised hazardous Atlantic waters to achieve this spot of bounty. They were getting away neediness and mistreatment and all way of different ills, and maybe some trusted that once they set foot on the ripe soil of North America, their inconveniences would be over.
The Leininger family arrived in the British province of Pennsylvania in 1755, and they couldn't have been more content about it. Here, the German-talking family would have the capacity to purchase a plot of area and love as they picked. Indeed, it was hazardous to cruise over the sea for an obscure future. What's more, they knew diligent work was ahead. Yet, when their first collect gave an abundance they would never have longed for back in the Old World, it had a feeling that it was all justified, despite all the trouble. Daddy and Mama and their children—two children and two little girls—had found a genuine home.
They couldn't have realized that European inconveniences would tail them to this untainted Eden. That the local Allegheny individuals, spurned by the British, had taken France's side in the French and Indian War. That groups of warriors were swarming nearer and nearer to their peaceful settlement.
On a mid-October day, when Mama and one of the young men are away, a modest bunch of American Indian warriors flatboat into the Leininger home. Dad tries to quiet them, however without much of any result: The Allegheny chop the men down and steal the young ladies, spiriting them away into the thick American woods to wind up some portion of their tribe.
Nobody ever escapes from the Indians, we're told. The individuals who attempt are blazed to death. But then, even as Barbara and her sister, Regina, are taken more remote and more distant into the profound Pennsylvania woods, Barbara holds tight to the conviction that she's not neglected. She's not the only one. God is with her.
POSITIVE ELEMENTS: The Leiningers appear to be precisely the kind of society you'd like to populate a promising new land. They're decent individuals, these foreigners, with nary a cross word shared amongst the parcel of them. Daddy cherishes his children and peruses the Bible to them after supper. Mom—not entirely certain that she'd like to stay in America for all time—in any case underpins Papa furthermore adores her kids beyond all doubt. The children all appear to get along—a genuine irregularity even in those days, I'd envision. In any case, when this perfect family is torn separated, that is the point at which its quality becomes an integral factor.
Alone Yet Not Alone spotlights on the eldest little girl, Barbara, demonstrating her awesome fearlessness and, now and again, incredible sober mindedness amidst a truly troublesome circumstance. She watches over her sister as much as she can, taking a chance with her life to attempt to be with her. She kidnaps another youthful, Marie, under her wing, as well. She nurture a debilitated kid back to wellbeing. When it's unmistakable there's not a great deal of fleeting open door for departure, she settles in and waits for her opportunity, much as it appears Daniel did in Babylon.
It's not the least demanding thing to tell an Indian-versus.- Settler story nowadays, not when we know such a great amount about how Native Americans were dealt with. Keeping in mind the American Indians are in fact the snag remaining amongst Barbara and her home, the motion picture makes a sufficient showing with regards to of not transforming them into two-dimensional scoundrels. The Allegheny are shabbily treated by the British, conveying setting to the assaults—without pardoning them. We perceive the amount of individuals from these tribes can think about each other. What's more, a warrior named Galasko spares Barbara's life when an associate needs to murder her for attempting to get away. "Try not to shame the fearlessness inside her," Galasko says.
SPIRITUAL CONTENT: Father peruses from the family Bible, no doubt, each night. What's more, when they read Deuteronomy 31:6, he focuses on the section's message: "Regardless of how hard the trial, or how dim the wild, God will never abandon you or neglect you. Never."
A pleasant, opportune lesson, that. In less than five minutes of motion picture time, the Allegheny warriors freight boat in and destroy the Leiningers. Detained, we see Barbara implore God, guaranteeing herself and her sister that He hasn't spurned them (and won't). She approaches God for direction, and she begs Him to secure her when she's attached to a tree and going to be blazed. Another lady, confronting the same destiny, advises spectators to not be troubled in light of the fact that she'll be with Jesus that very night. "I adore you, Jesus," she says.
We hear relatives sing the psalm "Alone Yet Not Alone," which incorporates the lines, "God's the light that will manage me home/With His affection and delicacy/Leading through the wild." It's a basic tune for the family, keeping Barbara's and Regina's spirits up amid some of their darkest minutes.
Following quite a while, Galasko and Barbara discuss each other's idea of God. Galasko notice his tribe's idea of a Good Spirit (in charge of the magnificence of nature) and an Evil Spirit (maker of outrage and war and terrible animals), and how the great god in the end vanquished the detestable one. Barbara counters with a message about how God's child Jesus passed on the cross and rose again to spare all of us. Galasko recognizes that Barbara's God must be exceptionally solid (given that Europeans have such threatening weapons), however that Barbara will need to set her God aside and begin revering the tribe's divine beings now. She later demands, "No Indian can change what I have faith in my heart."
SEXUAL CONTENT: Barbara is treated with modest respect by Galasko all through the motion picture and, surely, none of the hostages appear to be debilitated sexually. Galasko in the end makes it clear that he needs to wed Barbara, giving her his neckband and advising her to be prepared for him soon.
Couples in adoration do minimal more than touch hands. Two ladies are given a shower while wearing underpants. (We see them from the shoulders up.)
VIOLENT CONTENT: Father is slaughtered with a tomahawk blow. Galasko scalps him (offscreen) and hangs the "trophy" on his tent. One of the Leininger children is shot in the mid-section (passing on as his white shirt demonstrates the red sprout of blood). Warriors blaze the family's residence.
Later, an alternative civilian army assaults an Allegheny place to stay, and we see individuals harmed and/or slaughtered. Another fight, between one warrior and a large group of troopers, prompts the passing and injuring of numerous. Men are dispatched through projectile, rifle knob, blade and tomahawk in a frantic tornado of movement. An Indian takes a pack of scalps to the French-held Fort Du Quesne (where the French pay for every one got). We see scores of scalps holding tight the stronghold's dividers. Individuals describe their bleeding stories of misfortune.
A lady, getting away from the Allegheny with youthful twin young men, surrenders herself to spare the children. She's took away, attached to a tree and smoldered. (She's very quiet through the entire trial, not even once communicating anything other than acquiescence.) She's at last shot in the face by the French (to put her out of her hopelessness).
An injured bear tears up a person's leg with a swipe of its paw. (We see the subsequent blood.) We catch wind of wolves eating the feeble. Creatures are shot and executed and cleaned (with blade cuts darkened). Individuals are about cleared away in stream rapids. Hostages are abused and hit.
