Strange, Truth, God, Fact, Fiction, Life, Fortune.................all difficult words that mean different things to different people. A funny movie that makes you think about the CONCEPT of God, life, Desires etc........i haven’t read what other people have written about this movie but I am sure many people would try to find meaning in the plot of this movie.
Well, since the universe includes God (or is God, or is included in God, depending on your sect), then we shouldn’t be surprised if God looks like Morgan Freeman. Freeman’s wonderful voice and his look of calm competence -- you know he knows way more than he’s saying -- has left him typecast as the authority-figure in one movie after another. Why not the Ultimate Authority-Figure in this one?
And, continuing with the strangeness theme, why shouldn’t the Creator pick one Jim-Carrey-like human out of all the billions of humans who demand favors of Him, and give him God-like power over one neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, USA? And finally, why shouldn’t He deliberately neglect to give that human God-like wisdom along with the God-like power? (Because otherwise there would’ve been no movie, obviously.)
’’Bruce Almighty’’ tries to convey a Capra-like faith in the essential goodness of ordinary people. Bruce easily could’ve sunk into Elvis-like debauchery or Stalin-like mass cruelty by the end of the week, but instead he attains a certain humility and kindliness. Seems unlikely, I know, but that was just God picking the right person and keeping the movie a comedy instead of a tragedy.
It’s not a great comedy, but I like that the theologizing and philosophizing are kept to a minimum. And, on a funnier note, how can you not like any movie that has Jennifer Aniston in it?