Honors Those Who Went Before

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2016)

This movie powerfully portrays the importance of honoring our heritage. Woman in Gold gives voice to our ancestors. It shows that to the degree that we remember our roots and live in a way to honor our ancestors, then a link divine is forged which impacts us here and now and and sweetens the inevitable reunion on the other side. Remembering, simply remembering our fore-bearers creates an inheritance that exceeds gold.
Deuteronomy 6:10-12 serves as a good summary of this movie:
*Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build, and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are satisfied, then watch yourself, that you do not forget...*