But it is precisely because of this interspersed light comedy style setting that it greatly weakens Philomena's emotional expression of inner fluctuations on the way to find her relatives, and she feels a little bit of a waste of money. The so-called road film often completes the life experience in the conflicting relationship between people, and completes the communication with the self-mind and the sublimation of ideas on the road. And this film is mostly filled with gag jokes on the road of constant search, which greatly blurs Philomena's emotional expression, thus cutting off the channel for the audience to feel a sense of substitution, so that every time Philomena is in Philomena The emotional fluctuations brought to the audience are slightly abrupt and superficial.
If this kind of ingenious interactive sensationalism, the warmth of motherly love and the reporter's vigorous sense of justice bring tears to your eyes, the dark line in the film mercilessly exposes a dark history that belongs to the entire religion.
"I forgive you."
When Philomena uttered such a sentence loudly, the deep meaning that the director intended to express, that is, the opposition between faith and religion, became clear at a glance.
True faith is the belief in the teachings of a god or Buddha in human form. Religion is a man-made institutionalized product, a social organization. In the thousands of years of development, human religions often deviate from the original teachings of gods and Buddhas, and some religions have become political vassals or accomplices.
The director continued the discussion of this theme. The young girl who was pregnant before marriage must experience the pain of separation, while the nuns under the protection of religion wantonly vent their dissatisfaction with their lifelong ascetic practice by breaking up others.
For 50 years, Philomena has been confessing her guilt to being pregnant out of wedlock, and during the 50 years she has been devoutly introspecting and repenting. During the first visit after learning of her son's identity, Philomena had a flat response to her son being gay, but kept saying that if he was by my side, he wouldn't be where he is now. This scene subtly shows the spiritual level of the relatively young two who are far from Philomena. When the two young people (actually in their 50s) were still amazed at Chao Mom's unmoved state of her son's gay, Philomena said without any trace of her "love your neighbor as yourself, be tolerant. Fraternity" attitude towards life.
The historical background of the film takes place in Ireland and its strict religious system in the middle of the last century. Religion has also become Philomena's inseparable nightmare and sustenance for 50 years. After several heated discussions with the atheist Martin, Philomena finally completed her inner religious detachment, a scene where she stopped to pray. The director completed this dance of soul sublimation through strong contrasting lighting in the extremely limited narrative space. At this time, the director has perfectly presented Philomena's spiritual world to the audience.
And then a conspiracy that revealed the truth at the son's boyfriend's house also completely exposed the hypocritical side of the monastery. In the end, the great reunion that was in front of me was forcibly blocked by the nun. The twisted psychology reflected the sincere faith of the soul and the stubborn worship of the old-fashioned dogma.
When the reporter confronted Sister Hildegard in the final scene and called her a disgusting liar angrily, the nun was insensitive, but heard the reporter's obviously provocative question "You are not a Christian." Hill. But Sister Degarde was furious, staring at the reporter with anger, and expressed the deformed status quo of the entire religion in a way that was eager to justify. It also shows the essence of being loyal to religious dogma and giving up belief in modern religions. This is a very exciting scene, and it is this scene that elevates the theme of the entire film.
"Long after we set off,
we are back where we started
and reacquainted with this place.
- TS Eliot"
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