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Ericka 2022-04-22 07:01:13

When I saw the layout of the scene, I was really shocked by Feng Daopi... I was also convinced that the performance was finished in a parking lot for three hours.

The heroine is called Grace, which means grace from God. Grace is the outflow of God's love. The essence of God is love. Why can't she be God? The narration leads the story to a moral and ethical level all the time, referring to grace as a tempting forbidden fruit, but don't forget Feng Dao's identity as an antichrist, I prefer to see it as a blasphemous and judgmental parable Isn't the taking and rape of God's love the essence of a hypocritical believer's belief?

Tom established an exchange relationship with Grace from the very beginning, indicating that the divine grace has been blasphemed from the very beginning, making the divine grace subordinate to the economic category and losing its sanctity. What followed was intensified insults. Tom is more of a theologian than a philosopher in Dogtown. He always flaunted his love for Grace, and when he finally fucked her, he said they all fucked you, why can't I. An outbreak of a twisted ascetic belief. If Grace has always symbolized the image of a virgin woman like the Virgin Mary, then in this forced depravity she actually became a symbol equivalent to the great prostitute of Babylon. In terms of appearance, there is not much difference between the two images.

At the end of the father-daughter dialogue, Grace's desire to forgive everything further shows her identity. They accuse each other of being arrogant-arrogant, but who is the most arrogant and most qualified to be arrogant? God. Father and daughter are actually two sides of one body, grace and judgment. Both parties knew of the inexorable relationship but at the same time did not accept each other, which was why Grace left in the first place. In the end, Grace inherited the authority of her father and began the doomsday judgment. All people will be judged by God in the end, and the righteous and the wicked will enter heaven and hell respectively. It's just that there were no righteous people, so the trial turned into a one-sided slaughter.

Maybe they don't have to go to hell. After all, the world is full of sin, and it may be a hell in itself.

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  • Narrator: How could she ever hate them for what was at bottom merely their weakness? She would probably have done things like those that had befallen her if she had lived in one of these houses. To measure them by her own yardstick, as her father put it. Would she not, in all honesty, have done the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and Mrs Henson and Tom and all these people in their houses? Grace paused and as she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through, and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light. It was as if the light previously so merciful and faint finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly, you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now. The light now penetrated every unevenness and flaw in the buildings and in the people. And all of a sudden, she knew the answer to her question all too well. If she had acted like them, she could not have defended a single one of her actions and could not have condemned them harshly enough. It was as if her sorrow and pain finally assumed their rightful place. No. What they had done was not good enough. And if one had the power to put it to rights, it was one's duty to do so - for the sake of other towns, for the sake of humanity and not least, for the sake of the human being that was Grace herself.

  • Narrator: [as McKay explores even further with his hand] It was not Grace's pride that kept her going during the days when fall came and the trees were losing their leaves, but more of a trance like state that descends on animals whose lives are threatened - a state in which the body reacts mechanically in a low tough gear, without too much painful reflection. Like a patient passively letting his disease hold sway.