Romance and colour fill every frame, elephants wander in and out of view. This is big-budget movie making. Yet for all its exquisite beauty and appeal you can walk away from this film feeling strangely detached. Cleaned up for political correctness, this movie also opts for a pluralistic approach to faith rather than dealing with conflicting beliefs. For Christians, belief in God is not just one option among many.
Christians believe that salvation only comes through faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus.
That there is no other path to God. At times sentimental and melodramatic, Anna and the King is still an entertaining and strikingly beautiful film. But you're not going to walk out singing.