Few movies understand what it's like to grow up as an evangelical teenager like the 2004 comedy, Saved!
The Big Picture There was the pact for four high school seniors to lose their virginity in American Pie; in The Breakfast Club, a group of teenagers from different social groups realize they’re not that different from each other; and Cady Heron embarks on a revenge plot to topple queen bee Regina George in Mean Girls.
'Saved!' Is Written from Experience Saved!’s director and co-writer Brian Dannelly drew from his own experiences of attending a Baptist high school: “In the Baptist school there was the one Jewish girl that everyone was trying to save, there was a girl who got pregnant, there was a gay kid. And there were definitely those kinds of social dynamics: The more spiritual you are, the more you know how to quote Bible verses, the more popular you are.
Like in Saved!, many Christian teenagers attend Christian schools because their parents fear secular influence on their children and non-Chrstian education like teaching sex ed and evolution. As Dannelly has said, being more devout can affect one’s standing in the school. Hilary Faye does love Jesus, but she also loves status, and being outspoken about her beliefs helps her retain her social currency in her school.
The film begins on a note that is painfully relatable to those who were brought up in Christian eschatology. Mary talks about how she believes she’s living in the End Times. As a Christian youth, you’re constantly inundated with the belief that the end is nigh. This stems from the Christian belief in the Rapture, which posits that in the blink of an eye, all Christians will be summoned from the earth, and trials and tribulations will overtake the world.
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