Jacob the Baker
A journalist has to interview Noah, who is the writer behind Jacob the Baker series which has been translated into 18 different languages. She does not want this assignment because she would rather cover more pressing news stories, but she does it anyway. She asks all of the right questions and with every answer from Noah I wail aloud in my gut. This happens throughout the movie again and again until I am crying at the end. Why?
To begin with, Noah is Noah benShea who wrote these bestselling books about this fictional baker named Jacob. He talks about how Jacob’s religion is caring-based and that his story started one morning when he was writing notes to himself before work. One of the slips accidentally got cooked up in a bread and the woman who got it was struck by its truth so she ran back to ask him about it.
Jacob (or is it Noah?) says that caring is what pulls people together magnetically. We all need help at some point in our lives vulnerability as humans is universal.
Noah’s mother told him that a good person is someone who tries to be better than they were yesterday. The film had quotes like this, truths so big they hit me hard emotionally. Maybe because I’m nearing my death or maybe because I’m in a contemplative state of being low down. But damn those words and that film are strong.
It could have been filmed like a sermon but there was always a human problem next to each scenario. For example, there’s the lady who writes to Jacob about needing guidance on how to be a mom.. No one loves their child more than her.. no one loves their child less than her. “Inside every parent is a child wanting love.” He tells her “In parenting and teaching what you get is what you give.” And finally, “Of all the things you can give your children give them your time.”
While he’s talking we see that single mother gracefully and joyfully move into meeting her son’s new needs.
There’s another one with a soldier who writes Jacob.. he wants to forget through addiction and asks for help. There’s an adulterer writing from Korea lamenting his cold marriage. A Danish woman writes about her spiritual doubts. Noah responds to all their letters and we see healing scenarios showing how transformative Jacob’s words can be.
The film introduces the writer, Noah benShea, a scholar poet philosopher Pulitzer Prize nominated author behind the acclaimed “Jacob” books. Published in 1989 by Random House, the “Jacob” books carry messages of wisdom and caring as does this remarkable film.
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