jennjenn05

I was disappointed with the movie. Maybe if I was Mormon, I'd think the movie was cool but I thought it was a whitewashed story about Emma Smith. No doubt, she was a woman of strength and great faith in her religion. I respect her for that but I can tell it was a man that wrote the script of this movie...it was dry and bland on the areas that a woman would touch on. It did walk us through her faith as a child, how she fell in love with John, how they married and the struggles they went through as John received revelations from God. They moved a lot and built many towns and temples. She doubted herself at times but found strength to submit to God's will. Great. Hello! Aren't they forgetting to touch upon a rather important subject? Polygamy? Well, they DID touch on it...like 2 or 3 sentences about it! That is weak. I know I'm a modern woman and not of that particular faith but I strongly believe in a movie about ANY person that had a husband who married 32 other women, it was a pretty significant part of her life that should be addressed for more than 5 minutes of the film. I don't even need to see how it was horrible it was that he had other wives, just tell me how it happened, and how she dealt with it. If it was beneficial to be in that kind of situation, then show us how it was. How did he break it to her? how did he pick the next woman? Was there jealously? Was it like a sisterhood or women helping each other? How did these families live? And why did he do this? How did that differ from her second husband's betrayal that they spoke about in the beginning of the movie since John married younger women too? Obliviously, she endured a plural marriage through her obedience to her God.....show it! I think people want to know...or is it just me? I think the Mormons that made this movie didn't want to rock the boat or upset anybody from the faith so they didn't want to speculate on how it affected her. That is what I don't like about this film. I in no way want the film to depict Mormonism poorly, more information the facts of Emma's life with no candy coating.