[xp38]

Yeah it’s really well done. Maybe 90 to 95% non biblical but like you say it supports the narrative and it meshes perfectly when the biblical parts arrive.

[Kandy Atz]

That was the key point of my post. Usually the extra stuff infuriates me, because it detracts so much from the actual text. This scene does deviate from the text, but does so in a way that "could" have happened - and probably did.

When Jesus starts recalling her husbands - it certainly sounds like:

29 Come, see a Man Who has told me everything that I ever did! Can this be [is not this] the Christ? [Must not this be the Messiah, the Anointed One?]

The Amplified Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1987), Jn 4:29.

If I were the director, I would have shot it a bit different. I see from the text that the woman was well spoken, doesn't come off as overly emotional, and is very familiar with religion, especially about the coming Messiah. That was one area I thought was lacking.