Eric Lockley

Arvid 2021-12-27 08:01:54

(Serious spoiler) "The Last Temptation of the Pastor" (First Reformed) director and screenwriter Paul Schrader was the writer of the controversial "Last Temptation of Christ" 30 years ago . The theme of "The Servant of God Experiencing the Spiritual Night" of this play has a long history in Western...

Zechariah 2022-03-26 09:01:09

First of all, I am not a religious person, but I am interested in religious movies. For example, the domestic religious themes of Lin Zhengying and Wu Ma, and the Buddhist themes of Wu Chengen. I don't see many Christian-themed movies, but I also know about The Exorcist, Crazy Monastery and God's...

Winfield 2022-03-23 09:02:33

In the process of watching, I always unconsciously compare this film with the religious films of the masters (the film itself is also very retro), but whether it is Dreyer's "Words" or Buñuel's religious trilogy Or Bergman's "God's Silence" trilogy, all of which show enough shocking miracle scenes while doubting, this film just lacks this miracle.

Elza 2021-12-27 08:01:54

Schrader is a person who has lived through the 70s, and a director with a sense of religion. The old horse has fire, the rebellion is reasonable, and the sacredness is also slightly evil. It does not seem to matter whether God is absent or not. In the end, he must head towards the path of transcendence. People can only learn the road that Jesus walked (but this radical line is never taken seriously, Jesus is also a revolutionary, and his death is not just a sense of religion), so he is now a taxi driver, a dancer , Novelists, or priests, all surpass themselves with actions. But why not be popular to the end? People who take the world too seriously will eventually go toward self-destruction, believing in self-sacrifice in exchange for the redemption of others. Schrader's core idea is undoubtedly Bresson's "Pickpocket", but can the world still use "love" as redemption? You are also desperate to watch the late Bresson movies, even he denies the value and becomes nothing. The film also embodies the Transcendental Style he himself thinks, and makes image integration and rethinking. Although Bresson, Dreyer, and Ozu are branded everywhere, how can they not think that the final sign after the Trinity turns out to be Manoel de Oliveira?