EntertainmentJust in time for Valentine’s Day, a true love story of a couple’s Christ-centered commitment winds up shredded by Hollywood’s moviemaking machine in this sign-of-our-times “chick flick.”
Kim and Krickitt Carpenter’s
real-life story is one of sadness, true love, and God’s grace and
protection. The couple—whose inspirational account was first told in
their 2000 book, The Vow, and now in a movie by the same name—never gave up on their marriage, despite tremendous obstacles thrown in their way.
After only 10 weeks of marriage, the Carpenters were involved in a life-threatening accident the day before Thanksgiving in 1993. Though Krickitt was given a less-than-1-percent chance to live, she eventually awoke from her coma. But Kim’s excitement to have his wife back didn’t last long: Krickitt had no memory of meeting him, getting married or going on their honeymoon. Doctors explained that the last year and a half of Krickitt’s memory was gone and would possibly never return.
Throughout their struggles to restore the life they’d dreamed of sharing, the Carpenters clung to God and centered their broken relationship on Him. And through His goodness, they were able to save their marriage and push past Krickitt’s memory loss and personality changes caused by her severe head trauma.
That’s what happened in real life. Onscreen, however, it’s a different story—literally.
