MOONSTRUCK (1987)

Directed by: Norman Jewison
Written by: John Patrick Shanley
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Starring: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia
Rated: PG

About the film:
A widowed Brooklyn bookkeeper decides that it is time she gets married again but she becomes confused over which guy to join in wedlock: the nice guy who she doesn’t love; or his passionately intense brother who she barely knows. When she and the brother get intimate, all relationships get complicated.

Movie Quote:
“Now maybe, just maybe, a man isn’t complete as a man without a woman.”
Johnny (Danny Aiello) in Moonstruck (1987)

Bible Quote:
“But the woman is the glory of man. For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.”
1 Corinthians 11:7b-8 (NIV)

Commentary:
There’s no maybe about it, Johnny. The Bible is clear in stating that the whole reason for woman’s existence was to complete the man. Had woman not been created, God’s work would have been imperfect and that is impossible.

God made Eve to be a help meet (or fit) for the man. Eve was not created first nor was God’s work completed after making Adam. After each one of God’s wondrous works, which are recorded in the first chapter of Genesis as He restored the world, the scriptures state that “it was good.” However, after making Adam, God declared that it is “not good that the man should be alone.”

As a married man I can attest to the validity of both of the aforementioned quotes. I was a bachelor until I reached the age of 36 and I will be the first to say that I lived a partial life up until the time that I became a married man. My wife completes me and I her. Together we are able to serve the Lord and do His Will more effectively than we could ever achieve as separate individuals.

God describes marriage as a mystery in Ephesians 5, referring to how two people can become “one flesh.” It is difficult to explain to someone who hasn’t experienced it. To those of us who have, it is difficult to imagine living life any other way.

Questions to consider while watching the film:
1. What are the qualifications one should seek in a marriage partner?
2. What do the infidelities of the characters say about love and about the weaknesses of the human spirit? How can we guard ourselves against sexual temptation?

Michael Elliott
http://screensermon.blogspot.com