This is gritty, dangerous territory, exactly like the subject matter of the book of Hosea as a testament to the way that God faithfully loves infidelity-inclined Israel.Īnd that’s what should stick to the audience’s soul after the credits roll. There’s skin revealed and violence shown, without crossing into R-rated territory, but the audience will be completely convinced of the terrible existence that Angel endures. If the subject matter alone doesn’t tell you, then let’s make this clear: the film doesn’t leave much to the imagination while also toeing the line of a PG-13 film. She believes that to be true– and, quite frankly, ninety percent of the men she meets only care about using her or controlling her. But Hosea is the answer to prayers that Angel doesn’t know how to pray - she’s tied down by “God’s truth,” a phrase one of her influences uses to explain that men only care about women for sex. All this the audience learns in flashbacks, as the older Angel reflects on her tragic life from the bed where she sells herself.

She watches as her biological father abuses her mother she’s left to fend for herself when her mother dies. Fans of the film, and audiences looking for an intense, gritty translation of the book of Hosea, will find a western film like nothing they’ve seen before.Īngel’s life is doomed from an early age, thanks to the adulterous relationship that her mother Mae (Nina Dobrev) had, resulting in her birth. But her saving grace – even though she first doesn’t know it and later resents it – is Michael Hosea (Tom Lewis), who recognizes that God is calling him to marry Angel, even though she’s a prostitute. Abigail Cowen is Angel Cowen, a hard-luck woman who finds herself left with only her body as a means to get by in the 1850s Gold Rush. The cinematic version of Francine Rivers’ bestselling novel Redeeming Love shines a light, beginning dimly and finally blazing.

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