The former Catholic Pope, Pope John Paul II, passed away. After three rounds of votes from 52 countries and 115 cardinals, the white smoke (the winner needs to exceed 2/3 of the votes, or 77 votes), was finally elected. The new Pope - Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI (Benedict), a conservative figure from Germany, while another reformist Cardinal Bergoglio from Argentina lost the election, and Bergoglio wanted to resign the bishop. Position.
The whole film can be clearly divided into two parts. The first half tells the story of Bergoglio going to Rome to ask Pope Ratzinger to resign, and the second half tells the conversation between Ratzinger and Bergoglio in the Vatican, frankly confessing his life. The sins of Ratzinger's planned abdication in 2013 following the reminiscence of his life's experience, after Bergoglio Pope Francis was elected under the name Francis. There are no more plots and stories, just the conversation between two people and the story of the elected bishop.
What needs to be felt is that since the two bishops have different values and worldviews, and in an organization that believes in the same God, the same social system, and is in the same high position, the people in it still have such a great conflict of values. On the remaining 1.2 billion believers and 7 billion people in the world.
Ratzinger believes that the church is detached, and the sense of ritual is a must, and it does not need to change with the pace of the world. Bergoglio maintains that bishops and priests are no different from everyone, and everyone deserves to be taken seriously. Ratzinger travels on a special plane, Bergoglio travels as a civil aircraft, a public bus, and takes his own luggage; one dresses carefully and has his own luxurious summer residence, and the other dresses casually, eats pizza and stays in a hotel on the street, and is crowned. There is no need for a crown, it is the responsibility that falls on the head, "to be elected Pope is no different from martyrdom"; a self-proclaimed scholar, who does not care about the world, likes reading, music, and enjoys eating alone, one enjoys eating with others, and likes football , dances tango with others every week; Bergglio is heavily branded in Buenos Aires.
In Bergglio's self-recollection and confession, the filming method is slightly attractive. Around 1976, when the Argentine military government took power and carried out a "dirty war", he and the military government general compromised (comprpmise) to prohibit the priest from going to missionary. The "arrogance" and "inaction" at the time made it think that he was not qualified to be the Pope. "It's your inability to express your position that makes us irrelevant." Interspersed with this recollection, Bergoglio was wearing a priest's clothes and wandering in the foggy and deserted grasslands, with no roads, bowing his head and moving; later, he changed himself and criticized the unequal economic structure, 20% of the world uses the earth's resources excessively, and advocates that the world needs to build bridges not walls. When facing the problems of this world step by step instead of compromising, what is switched is that he is on the road full of stones, although hard, circling, Down, but with a direction, a sense of grit and fusion.
In his position, what a leader needs most is to maintain not the group's superficial harmony and colourful but touchable reputation, but to help everyone who really needs it, the human being, to punish those who give to others If it brings harm, the problem can only be solved by facing it squarely, change but not compromise.
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