This film is not so much a contemplation as it is a reverie, a entanglement of emotion and reason, while reflecting anxiety and calmness. ( ) The film is a comedy with heavy taste, a very interesting drama, a film about life thinking, and a lively work about death. ( ) The visual, intellectual and emotional climaxes in the film. ( ) This film is enough to make you feel the double impact of dizziness and moving. ( ) Gleason's real to sensational performance is admirable. The comprehensive mix and match of passionate performance, suspenseful plot, rude comedy, extreme belief and other elements doomed the film's classic status. ( ) The seemingly plain and watery film has a gripping rhythm, intertwined with emotions such as touching, funny and uneasy, but the final ending reveals a cynical sentiment. () The film looks very weird, very scary, and very charming. ()
Religious films always arouse human introspection. People will see the stubbornness of human nature and touch the faint warmth. This is the story of the crucifixion, but the director modernized it and placed it in a cold town on the Irish coast. Suffering and salvation will probably be the eternal theme of mankind. ()
The dilemma and loss of people in the small town between moral and religious beliefs expresses the director’s pessimistic attitude. This pessimism makes some humorous dialogues in the film lose their intended role, leaving the film only black and no humor. This pessimism also extends to the end of the film-Father James finally intends to escape the town, but at the airport he decides to return to the death covenant. He threw away his self-defense pistol and sacrificed himself like Jesus did to save the world. sin. This ending has sacred and sublime intentions, but the tragedy relentlessly refused to give hope. It only declared the director's compassionate cry: "Humanity is so hopeless." ( )
