Clara Williams is no soft-spoken elder though gentle and tender, she’s a sparkplug of brisk energy whose positive outlook and wry humor are matched by an oratorical extravagance that wouldn’t be out of place in a Pentecostal pulpit. Miss Clara asks Elizabeth for an hour a week of her time, for a religious study session-and it quickly catches on with Elizabeth, who begins reading the Bible on her own, establishes her own “war room” in a walk-in closet, and, by fighting on the side of Jesus, ultimately (as if it were a surprise) saves her marriage.īut this bare-bones synopsis of the movie hardly gets at its peculiar blend of blandly palliative wish-fulfillment and exuberant, nearly possessed fervor.
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Stallings), do little together but fight, and Miss Clara’s response is that it’s normal for couples to fight-but that the important thing is to learn how to fight, and then she reframes the problem, asking Elizabeth whether she’s willing to fight for her marriage. Elizabeth says that she and her husband, Tony (T. The terms in which Miss Clara phrases that struggle, though, are inspirational in themselves. It’s actually a converted closet, the walls of which are festooned with her handwritten citations from the Bible, and which she calls her “war room.” It’s where she goes, she says, to strategize to fight her own battles, and, pressing Elizabeth about her commitment to prayer and to Jesus, exhorts her to try praying in order to save her marriage. That’s when Miss Clara reveals to Elizabeth her favorite room in the house.
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