The review

The Lord tells Abraham to take the son he was promised and offer him on a mountain. Sarah is in the story. On the way Abraham tells Isaac that he is the sacrifice. Isaac does not want it, and he complies. Abraham binds him. The knife is stopped, and a ram is there instead. Nicolas Mouawad plays Abraham. David Helling wrote and directed it, on a very small budget, and it found a large audience. Angel's synopsis asks whether faith can stand when you are told to give everything. That is the actual question of the chapter, and the film stays on it.

Not for a small child. The dread is the point, and a child who only hears the dread will miss the ram. Older children can watch it with you, and then you read the chapter, because a film's dialogue is not the text. The charge is the one the story already has: do not love a promise more than the one who made it, and do not tell the story without the substitute. The number is 71.