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Bold interpretation, seek common ground while reserving differences
Estefania 2022-04-20 09:01:32
Very good horror movie! This is not a visual horror film shot to satisfy the audience's self-abuse or curiosity, but a literary horror film that requires understanding of the historical background of religion and psychological analysis to interpret. From the point of view of the Chinese who know little about Christianity, there are indeed many very different ways of interpreting it. But I don’t think there is any right or wrong. I still believe that the interpretation itself is the creation of the work, and there must be a lot of blank works to give the audience so much space for interpretation. This also explains to a certain extent the view that "seeing (reading) what you don't understand is the most artistic".
Extended Reading
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[first lines]
William: [before the court] What went we out into this wilderness to find? Leaving our country, kindred, our fathers' houses? We have travailed a vast ocean. For what? For what?
Governor: We must ask thee to be silent!
William: Was it not for the pure and faithful dispensation of the Gospels, and the Kingdom of God?
Old Slater: No more! We are *your* judges, and not you ours!
William: I cannot be judged by false Christians, for I have done nothing, save preach Christ's true Gospel.
Governor: Must you continue to dishonor the laws of the commonwealth and the church with your prideful conceit?
William: If my conscience sees it fit.
Governor: Then shall you be banished out of this plantation's liberties!
William: I would be glad of it.
Governor: Then take your leave, and trouble us no further.
William: How sadly hath The Lord testified against you.
William: [turning to leave] Katherine...
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Thomasin: [walking gradually toward her sister] I be the witch of the wood.
Mercy: Liar! Liar!
Thomasin: I am.
Caleb: List' not to her, Mercy.
Thomasin: I am that very witch. When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with The Devil. That's how I signed his book.
Mercy: No!
Thomasin: He bade me bring him an unbaptized babe, so I stole Sam, and I gave him to my master. And I'll make any man or thing else vanish I like.