Mueller's mother knew the ins and outs of this, but out of love for the child, she hoped that he could get some care and love from the outside world, before allowing such a thing to happen.
It doesn't matter whether Mueller and the priest had a homosexual relationship, at least in the movie, what matters is the seemingly favorable evidence linking these things. The priest usually behaves casually, likes to have long nails, likes to eat candy, and often has physical contact with boys. These behaviors that people seem to pay no attention to today, in the eyes of nuns at that time, would deduce and deduce. A conclusion, in the society at that time, especially in the church, things like this should happen from time to time, so there will be such reasoning.
Because the priest had been misunderstood before and knew that he could not fight against the social atmosphere and the status quo, he chose to give up his resistance and leave.
When the old nun was doing these kinds of reasoning and confronting the priest, she did not doubt such reasoning at all, and even threatened and challenged the priest with such reasoning. The darker it was, but when the matter passed, although the priest left, he was promoted, and he did not lose the bishop's trust.
At this time, thinking back to Mueller's mother's words, the priest's words, calm down, the old nun will realize how terrible it is to rely on her own subjective judgment, so she also began to doubt. It turns out that the previous experience and the principles learned may be applied to the naughty children around you, but they are not perfect.
Luckily, this happened in the past. So be afraid.
If the director makes the relationship between the priest and Mueller too obvious, and can only focus everyone's attention on the issue of homosexuality instead of the world view, then this theme cannot be expressed, and the level and depth of the entire film will be great. discount.
In real life, it is common to make judgments based on one's own subjective judgment, linking things that seem to be irrelevant, but some people are very likely to deeply hurt others under the condition of self-righteousness. This is especially the case with people who have quite a wealth of life experience. What's more, it is even more terrifying for a group to rely on this subjective judgment to do good deeds self-righteously without knowing that it is hurting others or directly refereeing a person's affairs. In Chinese history, things like this have often happened. Many injustices are played out this way.
The little nun is inexperienced in dealing with people because she is still inexperienced. Although she discovered the matter and reported it to the old nun based on her previous experience, with her participation, she will find that she has fallen into a mystery that is hard to get rid of. Among them, she was also very contradictory. Intuitively, she did not believe that the priest was such a person, so as soon as the priest gave an explanation, she said with relief that everything was explained clearly. She was influenced by both the old nun and the priest. The old nun used her lifelong experience and love for the Lord and her children, while the priest used his so-called spirit of great love. spirit), and finally she chose to believe that the factual evidence was insufficient, and she should believe in this characterful priest. Maybe the priest was worried that the presence of this witness would make things worse, and the church would use it as evidence against him. Maybe he just didn't want the little nun to get into this troubled water, so he persuaded her to leave.
Therefore, when it seems reasonable in both aspects, how to choose, how to advance or retreat, has also become a problem worth thinking about.
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