Redeeming love : movie on Netflix
I’ve never cried so hard because of a movie actually no I cried even worse because of that show “from scratch” also on Netflix.
I have not cried a very long time and this movie had me bawling my eyes out! I am still crying writing this. (In case you want to watch the movie, go watch it and read this later)
Spoiler alert
This movie is about a girl named Angel who was sold at the age of 5 and she was in a brothel. Basically she would sleep with the men that came in and those man would pay to sleep with her. She costed the highest because she was sold as a little girl and she was extremely beautiful. Her mother died when she was little and her father killed himself after accidentally sleeping with her at the brothel. She didn’t know who her father was until after she slept with him.
Then came a man named Michael who’s extremely handsome and 6 feet tall. He would always pay for Angel but he would never sleep with her, he would just talk to her and he kept telling her that he could save her and take her out of that brothel to offer her a better life. She would laugh and she wouldn’t believe him because all she’s known is men betraying her and using her for her body. She kept telling Michael that she wouldn’t leave with him. And one day Michael just stopped coming, she started getting a little sad and she started thinking about leaving the brothel. But the manager would not let her leave, they beat her up so bad she was bed ridden. Suddenly Michael had a hunch that something was happening to Angel so he went to the brothel when he got there he saw Angel on the bed, beaten really badly. He asked the manager how much she owed and he said he will take her with him. He paid her debt and asked her to come with him but as his wife, Angel agreed and they left.
Michael lived on a farm and when he brought Angel back she had to stay in bed for a few days because she was still recovering from the beating at the brothel. But little by little she regained her strength and she started asking Michael to sleep with her as a way to pay him back. Michael felt offended because he didn’t bring her with him to be a sex slave, he genuinely loved her from the moment he saw her walking down the street where he worked in the city. He wouldn’t dare touch her inappropriately because he loved her and he wanted her to trust him. So she started trusting him but she still couldn’t fathom a man loving her because she had slept with so many men before but Michael didn’t care. He said God told him that Angel was his wife. Angel didn’t believe in God ever since her mother died and she was left alone to fend for herself.
She then tried to escape the farm but Michael found her and gave her water and a coat because “it gets cold out there” he said. He left her to make her own decision whether to go back to town to the brothel or back home safe with Michael. So she made the decision to go back home to Michael. That was her first act of trust, and Michael valued that. He still wouldn’t touch her because according to him she wasn’t ready even though they were married. One morning Michael took her out to see the sunrise after she had a bad dream, she then asked him why he wouldn’t touch her because she was his wife, she said “I don’t blame you” she thought Michael wouldn’t touch her because she had sex with a lot of man but Michael told her that simply he was waiting until she was ready. And oh boy was she ready, they made love not sex. She let herself be in his presence and she even called out his name which was a first for her because she normally wouldn’t know the men she slept with. But a few days later Michael’s brother in law named Paul came by and immediately Paul recognized Angel from the brothel. He tried to warn Michael but he had already knew and that wasn’t a surprise. Angel then tried to escape again this time she asked Paul to take her to town, and Paul ask her to repay him so she had sex with him ( she immediately regretted it but she went to town anyway)
When Angel got to town she saw that the brothel was burned down and a lot of the girls died in the fire. Another man took her in and pimped her out. Michael went back to town and got her back. She came back to the farm with Michael. Immediately she saw how much pain she caused Michael she felt dirty and she tried to take a bath in the river she was bleeding from washing herself too much. Michael told her he forgave her.
They moved past all of that and they started helping a family they found on the side of the road. When Angel realized how much Michael wanted children and she knew she couldn’t have any. She told Michael she can’t have children but that didn’t change a thing Michael still loved her. She felt so bad that she ran away again but this time she left a girl from the family who they were helping a letter asking her to be with Michael and to give him children.
Angel left and went back to town, she started working at a restaurant but that restaurant burned down by the guy she was sold to when she was a child. That guy took her and wanted to start another brothel with Angel. He also had young girls who he took, Angel prayed to God for the first time to save her. She then outed the guy in front of the whole town and told everyone she was sold as a kid and the guy had little girls locked away in there. The town got mad and hanged the guy and Angel escaped with the girls.
Angel then started a shelter for girls like her who wanted to get a better life but one day Paul came in and asked her to go back to Michael. Angel told him she can’t go back because she can’t have children and that’s why she left so Micheal can be with another girl who could give him children. Paul started crying when he realize that Angel didn’t leave because she was selfish she left because she wanted Michael to have children of his own. Paul begged her for forgiveness and she told him that she forgave him a long time ago.
She then went back to Michael (ugh finally) Michael forgave her and Angel tells him her real name is Sarah. Then they went on to have 2 kids! She got pregnant by God’s grace!
Ugh this movie really taught me that love is patient, kind, it doesn’t take into account what happened in the past, love is relentless… I am crying just thinking about how Michael really loved Angel unconditionally yeah yeah it’s fiction but a girl can dream. I hope I find a love like that… God knows how weird and stubborn I am and I need a very patient guy.
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