![]() But you can go to “ ” if you really want to know. In the final climactic scene, guess what happens? Well, I couldn’t spoil it if I wanted to. There’s too many clichés to count, but worst of all comes at the very end, in what was by far the most laughable, absurd, rip-off ending in the history…yes history!.of movies (at least that I can remember.) Throughout the movies we are told about values, and how your success in golf doesn’t equate with success in life. As we trod along through this predictable and worn-out film, we get little drama involving the sport, nor any real emotion that would make you even care about Luke’s path to redemption. But “Seven Days in Utopia” is not interested with finding new ground…it’s completely content with par.įor golfers out there, this isn’t your version of Rocky. With talents like these, you would have hoped for more. Melissa Leo, a fine actress, is completely wasted in a minor role that has absolutely no meaning or purpose. Luke (Lucas Black) is a young golfer whos about to take a swing at the big time until he has a meltdown that makes national news and scuttles his once-promi. His character is a hybrid Cowboy-Yoda, infused with the soul of Mr. Robert Duvall mails in a performance as the mentor golfer that is so lazy, he doesn’t even bother to keep his eyes from occasionally wandering directly into the camera. Cook’s faith-based novel, Golf’s Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia, the drama stars Lucas Black as Luke Chisolm, a young pro golfer who has a disastrous. ![]() Hmmm, I wonder if Luke will end up golfing in that big tournament everybody keeps talking about…and I wonder how he’ll do…we’ll get to that in a bit. I left something important out of my review of Seven Days in Utopia, and it is the ending, which is why I originally left it out.But it is also the most interesting part of the film, and the rest. There’s even the prick redneck bad-guy, who just is mean for the sake of it at first. He meets a gal, gets advice from a wise old-timer who has been in his shoes. ![]() But it does rely on every single movie cliché in the world, doing none of them justice. “Seven Days in Utopia” is not so horrible in that you’ll hate yourself for watching it…it’s actually too soft and harmless to warrant any kind of emotional response. In his days spent in Utopia, he regains a grip on his life, and his game, through his encounters with the village locals. He winds up in Utopia, where he is stranded for a week. Down and out, Luke is at a crossroads, quite literally. Instead, he had a complete melt-down on the 18th hole, spurred by his caddie and controlling father (Joseph Lyle Taylor), who has been pushing him his entire life. The film is based on the book Golfs Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia by Dr. On Easter morning in a cemetery in Utopia, following one of the biggest storms in young Luke’s life, his heart was rescued.Lucas Black plays the central character Luke Chisholm, an amateur-turned-professional golfer who was on the verge of winning his first pro event. 4.4 million 1 Seven Days in Utopia is a 2011 American Christian sports drama film directed by Matt Russell, starring Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, and Melissa Leo. He introduced Luke to the resurrected Jesus, our True North during the storms of life. He introduced Luke to the One who gave it all so that we might live. So, on Easter morning Johnny introduced Luke to the deeper meaning of SFT. He had engaged Luke’s brain but the heart was still hanging out in the wind. He marked his ball with SFT to keep himself focused and reminded of true north. This simple process changed Luke’s golf game and became his foundation. And in a similar way, that is where many of us find ourselves this Easter.Įarlier in the week, Johnny had set up this scene by teaching Luke the key to the mental game of golf was to have an unshakable mental process so that on game day, when the inner noise becomes deafening and the intensity boils to a cauldron of pressure, the mind has a place to go… a place that becomes true north in the heat of the adversities of competition and life-See it, Feel it, Trust it. Luke had arrived in Utopia on Palm Sunday and was in the midst of the storm of his life during Easter week. As you can see, I have skipped ahead in the book/movie for today’s Easter week message.
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