Seven days is apparently how long it takes to fix the car of a professional golfer, who crashes through a rancher’s fence while avoiding a cow on an isolated country road.
Seven days is also – conveniently – how long it takes theTexan pastoral community of Utopia to perform Christian conversion therapy on said golfer. Welcome to Seven Days in Utopia (2011).
What is it about golf in movies as a metaphor for some deeper spiritual journey? Isn’t it enough to simply let a golf movie be about golf?
Perhaps director Matthew Dean Russell saw The Legend of) and concluded that sparkly, ephemeral cinematography is what you need to open viewers’ mouths in wonder just wide enough to shove a heavy-handed lifelesson down their unsuspecting throats.
