Nominating a short film like Nefta Football Club anyway - a film where a pair of Tunisian kids who happen upon a drug-hauling donkey seem to make the most imperiling choice possible at every turn, if only for the sake of the film - either shows a callousness toward criticism or an unbreakable penchant for films like this. Last year’s short films got called out for being unusually obsessed with placing children in danger in order to goose up a plot. Diane Warren’s nominated song ranks right at the bottom of her own rankings, too. But the message of this movie - Chrissy Metz’s son falls through pond ice and ends up in a coma, surviving thanks to the power of her faith and prayer - is incredibly muddled, and at times seems to be acting in bad faith, particularly when depicting incompetent medical staff. I went into Breakthrough with a more-than-necessary amount of determination to find the good in it - it being a faith-based movie and me being a person of very little faith.
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