God of War comes first, God of Eros comes second.
This seems to be the prophecy of all the revenge journeys in the future. After the prison disaster and before the Jesus-shaped torture, Judas seems to have become a warrior who is only controlled by the God of War and does not give the God of Love a soft look. There are only two exceptions. One was the respect for Aru Si's emphasis on his father's generation, and the other was the intimacy of the four war horses with different temperaments, and no matter how you looked at it, the latter seemed to be more sincere and frank than the former. Of course in the end Jesus took the gun from his hand, hatred turned to forgiveness (love?), and the mission of religion was fulfilled for the first time.
Jesus never showed up from beginning to end, which is undoubtedly the ingenuity of director William Wheeler. The man who made "Roman Holiday" cast this layer of veil with the same delicateness. The hand that flows out of the clear spring, the outline of the commoner who preached on the grassy highlands, the peaceful back kneeling on the long stone road, and the rough limbs that cling to the cross at last. It is always easier and more difficult to portray pain than to present pleasure. In the symphony's strong pause, Christ's suffering is also Judas', Messera's, Esther's, Tasha's and his daughter's, all reduced to a stumble, and when Judas scoops the water, the A complex redemption is also nearing completion. But I can add that the distant cloud of black mist on the face is too deliberate, how can God have true tolerance, after all, a face that has endured all our pain must be unbearable to witness, this time Strong instructions may also surprise our souls more.
From beginning to end, I have been unconsciously making an invisible comparison between Esther and Hepburn's Princess Anne. Two women with different degrees of independence and male dominance will undoubtedly bring haggard to Judas and Joe, in order to obey The lover's superficial wishes can pretend to ignore the cry of the lover's heart, the years when Ester was alone in the empty boudoir, and Annie was coerced by a larger entity. This has brought a huge amount of pain to men that can be recalled, and the struggle for power is difficult to implement in the memory. The noble point of Judas is that it does not aim at rights from beginning to end, but only as a tool for revenge. Can be "taken the sword from my hand" by saying "Father, forgive them because they don't know what they are doing". I would also like to say that Ben-Hur is a Christian epic of man's self-redemption, while Roman Holiday is the summer sweat of a woman with one sleeve.
Or the other way around, why not.
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