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Show 208 other side of the baptismal font. In one way or another we all know it: the things we make true are true, in powerful ways. The salt flats have always reminded me of bones. There is a production called Saturday's Warrior that I don't think anyone has seen outside of Mormons from Utah County-but every Mormon from Utah County has seen it. The play and movie adaptation showcases the plight of a giant Mormon family as the oldest son Jimmy starts to fall away from the faith. He is upset at one point that his parents are having yet another baby even though they already have eight. We already know the girl who is waiting to be bom because we have seen her in the pre-existence, and she is an adorable girl in a yellow dress. When Jimmy voices his objection, his sister replies, "They had you, didn't they?" This is a breaking point for him and he starts to fall in with some bandana-wearing troublemakers who sing and dance to songs that rail on solid conservative Christian values while ripping off the choreography from the movie Grease. Jimmy's wheelchaired twin sister Pam stays patient with him, but then unfortunately she dies and Jimmy has a choice to make: the church and his family or the world and his fuck-up friends. That decision is framed with competitive songs sung by the family and the friends respectively, with the screen divided in half, and occasionally a clock interposed on top of it all. He chooses faith and family. |
