The Crossing

"Don’t forget my Friend's love"

 

Summary:

Not many teens can relate to the death of a close friend or family member. When you're young it’s easy to think you're invincible or that, at least, death is far away. But with what high-schooler Jason Reynolds (Kevin Downes, “The Moment After”) has been going through, he is faced with the reality that nothing is permanent. His best friend Matt (played by David A.R. White of “Mercy Streets”) dies one day after battling leukemia. But just before his death he leaves a cryptic note for Jason: “don’t forget my Friend's love”.

The pieces of the puzzle fall together for Jason as he is taken on a strange journey. First he visits a place where each sin every person ever commits is recorded for use in the courtroom (tallied by computer and printed on dot-matrix printers, no less). In a courtroom he visits next the eternal fate of each person is decided upon: life with God in heaven or eternal separation? (Effectively dispelling the notion that good works are enough to get you to heaven.) This scene, and the scene following where Jesus iscrucified, make the message of thegospel come alive and clear. “The Crossing” is the strongest evangelistic film I’ve yet to see from Bill Muir (also the producer of “Shattered” and “Invisible Enemies”).

At the conclusion of the film we find that Jason has a clearer picture than ever before on what “the most important thing in life” is (a school presentation he was preparing for, now an opportunity for him to share his new faith inJesus). “The Crossing” deals specifically with mankind's sin (The Computer Room scene), theconsequences of that sin (The Court Room scene), God’s solution(The Crucifixion scene), andsalvation through faith (in a scene where Jason must use the cross to go over a vast chasm separating him from God).