What if being a knowing deceiver for ill-gotten gains turns the World unto a better moral union and therefore serves the Lord’s Ultimate Purpose, in helping the unfortunate in life? Such a hysterical idea is likely something to be glossed over by the lead “Jonas Nightingale”; an exceptionally casted Mr. Steve Martin who unleashes his worldly experiences at performing in a truly unique act involving the intricacies of directorial choices to involve the all-encompassing “remnants of mass” towards a prayer for relief in the Kansas dreadnought drought.

This remark upon major motion picture film & art direction rewards those spirits who choose the path unto entertainment, to bring others joy, not predatory miseries that only rub salt into the wounds of the salt of the earth.

Yet, bizarrely, in The United States, snake oil of the worst bottling is avowedly defended, for the sake of ultimately rewarding true fidelity with the truth of beliefs and ideas.

Thus, the wonderfully unique artwork itself, in presenting a tried-and-true fashion of the sorcery kind.

For the sorcerer knows he (or she) is putting on an act. To more than deceive; more than trick; but to play with others innocence, in a way which natural leadership is designed to possess for the ultimate imperative of social struggles for life. Against forces that are opposed to it. 

This internal corruption is what is ironically cautioned with the “Jesus-stick” fable – a fable in the mind of the snake in the tent, anyways.

And yet, the turn onto repentance through abstaining and therefore voiding evil thought content is the magical experience of the film. A, maybe not conversion, but a returning to a time before wrongdoing – before manipulative traces of deception; not onto returning love to the family, like Joseph causes with his brothers and father Israel through fraudulently representing Benjamin’s theft of a goblet; but by the destruction of the love of the family union in the first place (by his brothers.)

“Besides, although you intended me harm, God intended it for good, so as to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.”-Genesis 50:20 King James Bible Translation

Perhaps it is in this wrinkle where there is cosmic goodness after all? To believe in? To trust?

Grade: A-