On Saturday, the Handsome Husband and I went to see The Book of Eli. It was a great movie. There is plenty of action and I loved the story line. Eli is protected by God as he travels across a 30 year post nuclear US and heads west to deliver the Bible into good hands. He doesn't know exactly who or where to deliver the Bible but he has faith he will know when the time comes who to give it to. He crosses a budding town controlled by an evil, educated man (everyone born after the war is not educated, due to destruction of most books) who is in search of the Bible to use for evil purposes. Eli must escape him and his violent goons with his Bible. Exciting stuff. The ending was a little generic for me, as a Christian, but I liked it non the less. 
Denzel Washington
I took a Wednesday afternoon and went and saw An Education all by myself. A first for me! I loved it. This movie was hard to find as it came out in October 2009 and I don't remember hearing anything about it. It is a coming of age story about a 16 year old girl who is conned by an older man in the ways of love. It takes place in 1961, in London and Paris. It is not a heartbreaking story, but an eye opener.
Carey Mulligan does an excellent job playing the smart, driven, and naive Jenny. She shows us how love is blind and you're willing to look the other way when things don't quite add up.
I loved all the clothes and the scenery in this movie.
Peter Sarsgaard plays the older (40ish) David. You have to wonder what kind of weirdo he is that he is courting a 16 year old. He wins over the parents with his smoothness and lies, but is eventually found out to be the scoundrel that he is. Jenny is humbled and regroups and realizes her dreams with a more mature outlook.
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Great choise indeed!
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