Valkyrie

I finally got around to watching this movie.  I was in no hurry, since I really dislike Tom Cruise, as an actor, and think even less of him as a person.  Because I know in-depth about the various 1943 and 1944 plots against Hitler, I figured Hollywood would not get it right.

I was mostly right.  It was like seeing a replica of the Mona Lisa and noting the complete loss of the character of the painting - she is now grinning instead of that mysterious vague smile.

Although, there was only the slightest of illusions to Von Stauffenberg being a Christian, the entirety of the role played by faith in his life and that of the role Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as the head of the National Church, was completely left out.  To the movie Von Stauffengerg was driven by national pride, to save his country so to speak.  In life, Adolf Hitler was thought to be Satan incarnate, a man whom must be removed at all cost to save mankind.  He falsely believed God called him to kill the Fuhrer, but it was not entirely his fault.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his brother-in-law had been trying for two years to do the same.

The failure of the assassination attempt, the almost instant connection of the plot to Von Stauffenberg, and the complete collapse of the general staff's uprising, was actually done rather well.  Left out of course, the executions of all of the male heads of Bonhoeffer's family and extended family, the further witch-hunt which brought up to another 1,000 to death  - went completely unaddressed.  After all, in Cruise's world - the Christian faith is a form of mental illness.....

As my failing thesis in Theology so well laid out - murder by those called by God's name, will not be tolerated by God, and they will not succeed.  God reserves for Himself the right to take human life.  For those whom think otherwise - I strongly caution, to think otherwise..... 

Scripture is very plain on the subject, it is only ambitious men whom see otherwise.