When you write an incredible, generation-defining, genre-defying book like Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz, how in the world do you expect to translate such an experience to film?
Well, you don’t, exactly. Miller’s bestselling "nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality" were put into narrative form, in order to tell an external story that captured the internal musings Blue Like Jazz explored.
I watched Blue Like Jazz The Movie on opening night, although it was more out of production curiosity than it was for the content of the film per se. I had seen the rough, yet VERY[…]