I didn't expect this film to be so good, telling a true historical story, but the specific details and reasons may be fictitious. I think the attraction of the film is in two aspects: 1. The internal structure of the Catholic Church and the existence of the Pope himself to the audience. Mystery, 2. The contrast formed by "the pope is also a mortal" is cute. Is the pope who eats pizza, watches football, and dances tango more cute than himself standing on the ceiling?
Documentary-style lenses and shooting techniques, such as zoom-in-focus-zoom-out, unconscious shaking, as if the person in the lens is the subject being interviewed, which instead creates a sense of reality;
The two old actors are very exciting. The whole image, temperament and way of speaking make people feel that they are the two leaders. Their authoritative tone, penetrating eyes, and determined and humble attitude make it too easy for people to enter the drama. .
The film made a positive propaganda for Catholicism: the efforts and contributions made in improving the living conditions of people in poor areas of the world, they can see the problems of the world, see it step by step towards differentiation, classization, polarization, and see people's The spiritual world is degenerating day by day. They have been fighting against the torrent of the times and trying to improve these problems. What they want has always been the common happiness of all mankind, but what they can do is still quite limited;
Seeing the peculiar distress of the Pope, who is above all people: to appease the loneliness of all people, but unable to calm his own loneliness; to forgive the sins of all people, but no one came to forgive them for him; never had the courage to try the worldly life, and this It is precisely the most important way to bring wisdom; he likes to play the piano, but no one dares to stand beside him to evaluate and appreciate, he always eats alone, eating food that will never change; the essence of the clergy is perhaps loneliness, God won't joke with you; and you don't know when God will give you a call and when he will abandon you. Therefore, the arrangement at the end of the film is very warm. The two popes before and after eat pizza together and watch the World Cup together. It doesn't even need to be friendship, just company.
You come to the world, but think about heaven every day, whether you have realized the meaning of this life, it is not for me and other mortals to judge.
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