The Deputie family has been enjoying the movie the Princess Cut this last month which was put out by Watchman Pictures. We've watched it several times and fall more an more in love with the movie every time we watch it. We've watched it with family and friends and everyone agrees, Princess Cut is a wholesome, entertaining, tear-jerking, and encouraging film appropriate for the whole family.
Grace, a 20-year-old girl who lives on a soy farm with her parents and two brothers, has always dreamed of marriage, a princess cut ring on her finger, and a life happily ever after. However, she's continually tried to make this dream come true by her own efforts and with the wrong type of guys. She keeps her parents separate from her dating life and also has a rocky relationship with her brothers.
Grace is wooed by a young man named Jared at a coffee house. He has all the right words and makes her feel "loved", beautiful and special. She goes out alone with Jared one day and he steals a kiss from her as well as tries to push things too far physically with her. She feels guilty and uncomfortable with this and reaches out to her best friend and a therapist who both give her terrible counsel that what she's experiencing is normal and she should continue to compromise her purity to progress toward marriage. This counsel doesn't sit right with Grace.
When Grace comes to her parents and confesses what's been going on with her relationship with Jared, they forgive her and things begin to change in Grace's life. Her dad apologizes for not stepping up and leading his family in this area before and hands her a package of soy bean seeds that have little slips of paper with words of character written on them. He asks her to trust him and her mother in helping her find a husband. He explains this time being single is a precious time where she can plant seeds to prepare for marriage and focus on her relationship with her family, namely her little brother, and the Lord. He encourages her to wait for the Lord to bring a husband to her.
As Grace begins to focus on her relationship with the Lord and with her family, Clint, a neighbor boy who recently moved into the house near Grace's, sits both of her parents down and asks if he can begin a relationship with their daughter to "explore the possibility of marriage". After receiving her father's approval, Clint proceeds to ask for Grace's approval in the beginning of a relationship with marriage as the end goal. Clint explains he wants to treat her with honor and respect so even if they end up not getting married they can remain friends.
They spend time together with Grace's family doing tasks around the farm, cooking together in the kitchen, playing board games together and going mini golfing. You rarely see them alone and never see them uncomfortable or in any compromising situations which is in complete contrast to Grace's prior relationships.
During their relationship, they face a number of trials (which I won't spoil for you :) ) that create opportunities for them to deal with many character building scenarios under the protection of her parents, building an open, honest, strong foundation of trust, loyalty, and sense of unity in their partnership.
The kids, Alex and I, first watched this movie with Uncle Doug (my brother-in-law) and our current room mate. We had so many discussions during this movie with each other and with the kids that we needed to keep pausing the movie or rewinding it to re-listen to things that were said or done. We talked about a dad's covering and protection for his daughter, how Jared approached Grace vs how Clint approached her, and how Clint built a relationship with Grace's dad before he did with Grace and ran many things by her dad before ever bringing them to Grace. We discussed the compromising situations Grace put herself in and ran several other options Grace could have chosen in those situations as well as other potential avenues those situations could have gone from bad to worse. The discussions we had were so fruitful and more plentiful then I can include in this review!
The acting, the music, the scenes, and the setting were all SO much better then most "Christian Films" I've seen. We were very impressed. This is a movie I would pass around and I really believe other people would enjoy it as much as I did.
My only criticism is a scene where a car crashes into Grace's little brother who was riding his bike in an angry rage provoked by something that Grace said to him. This scene is extremely dramatic (overly dramatic) and didn't even result in any serious injury. It felt cheesy and more something I wanted to laugh at then a scene that I got anxious about or swept into the thrilling trauma of the scene.
I am glad to have Princess Cut in my home library and happy that my girls (I am raising 4 of them!) as well as my boys (raising 2 of them!) have this movie to be one of their early exposures to "dating" or "courtship" and hope that it points them down the path of longing to have a relationship that is pleasing to the Lord and honoring to their parents.
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