As a result, he suddenly breaks up with his long-term girlfriend Shannon.
One night after having a physical encounter with his father, Bart decides to leave for good. His voice talents soon allow him to play the leading role in one of his school productions called Oklahoma! Were the filmmakers wary that the focus of the film could shift too far afield from the son's hit record to the father's miraculous transformation? As the real Bart Millard observes in a brief sound byte, in the bonus track: "If the Gospel can change that dude, it change anybody.Consequently, he joins music classes but keeps this information hidden from his father to avoid physical abuse.
Millard indeed had permanent brain damage, leading to violent behavior, then his transformation through Christianity into the man who could win back the love of his son was even more remarkable. But the one nagging criticism of this film remains: Why didn't the filmmakers reveal the truth about the father's accident? If Mr. Another strong character development was the gravel-voiced manager who believed in Bart both as a singer and as a human being. The story was well told and superbly performed by a gifted singer-actor. The film is also successful in dramatizing the power of forgiveness, as Bart's forgiveness of his dad relieved the debilitating incompleteness of his life. It also culminated in the blockbuster song that is the title of this film. It was also escapist, saving the child's sanity. But it also sparked his creative energies, leading to accomplished work in sketching and, above all, in the expression of music. The act of fantasizing removed the child from his terrifying environment. One of those skills was the childlike ability to imagine. There is no doubt that young Bart Millard was a horribly abused child, but one with tremendous resourcefulness and survival skills.
But it does suggest that the film is a whitewash because it chooses not to offer the total picture of the Millard family. The background above is not intended to give the abusive father a free pass. The details about trauma to the temporal lobe and mood changes are touched upon in the bonus track of DVD of "I Can Only Imagine." But that part of the story is left out of the film itself. After awakening from an eight-week coma, the man was never the same, due to brain damage. Milliard was seriously injured when he was struck by a diesel truck while working for the Texas highway system. In the case of "I Can Only Imagine," we have a conventional portrait of a wife batterer and a child abuser in the figure of washed up football star Arthur Millard, resulting in years of anguish for his gifted son to try to come to terms with his dad. There is a certain dishonesty about a film biography that leaves out one of the pieces of the puzzle of a man's life. Reviewed by lavatch 7 / 10 What the Film Doesn't Tell Us About Pop
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