Golden Mind

Although the film comes out as a large commercial for the selling and trading of precious metals to make your fame and fortune, Golden Mind still has enough of a Christian story in it for church audiences and only for church audiences.

I have to say that at certain points of the film I was moved, but when I finished it and looked back on what I saw I realize my emotions were being manipulated. Josiah David Warren was just too much of a goody goody and I fear would not in real life be the success he made himself into.

For one thing child welfare surely would have stepped in with no father and a minor child in the picture even with Warren 18 he was still going to high school. To emphasize how poor he was the first part of the film he went totally without shoes, just wearing sandals without socks to school. Glad he got some footwear when he made a few dollars. Didn't improve the rest of his wardrobe.

Be frugal, invest in precious metals and become a born again Christian are the secrets of success. Were it only that simple.

Golden Mind tries to be a 21st century Horatio Alger story, but Alger's heroes may have struck gold, but never invested that way.