HELLO MY NAME IS CHARLIE

HELLO, MY NAME IS CHARLIE is a surprisingly appealing, interesting movie about a brilliant high school student named Charlie, who tries to be neutral and solve everybody’s problems.

People come to Charlie with all their personal relationship problems. He makes copious notes in his notebooks. He gives people solid common sense advice and even moral answers.

Charlie’s neutral, standoffish attitude becomes annoying, however. When one notebook disappears in a scuffle, he’s afraid all his private notes about the students will be revealed. He even gets called to the principal’s office, but he outwits the principal.

Eventually, two of the groups he’s advised, the punks and the football jocks, are about to destroy each other on the basketball court. Only Charlie can stop it. Charlie asks his father what’s wrong, and his father refers him to DANTE’S INFERNO condemning neutrality. That refers him to Jesus Christ’s condemnation against being lukewarm in Revelation 3:16 of the New Testament. Is it too late for Charlie to take a stand and how will it affect his reputation?

Written by two of Movieguide®’s Kairos Prize winners, HELLO, MY NAME IS CHARLIE is surprisingly entertaining. There are some very creative cinematic techniques, such as Charlie’s notes on people appearing next to them on screen. There are a few static moments, but very few. The direction is amazing. These non-professional actors do a terrific job, and no one is over the top. All in all, this is one of the more entertaining low budget movies. It’s a wonderful, inspiring movie, with a strong Christian, moral perspective, for high school students.