Maybe religion is not so tempting for some people who live a heartless life. Those who do nothing and think they have nothing to do, such as me, do not have so much love and expectation for Jesus, Every day, I can choose different dishes between Taoyuan Restaurant and the halal cafeteria with peace of mind. I have no serious illness or minor disaster. Most of the time, I am poor and happy, and I am lazy. Hope, but still live happily and dirty” philosophy is more suitable.
But in fact, I think, a narrow-minded and rogue person like me, if one day, the rulers take away my naan and pilaf, and the class divide will take away my beloved girlfriend, and the pain is too much Once I was unable to incite a group of brothers to rise up, I might throw myself into the arms of a certain Lord. In the movie, it is the poor second-generation slave watching his beloved rich second-generation girl being taken away by the official second-generation little brother... Logically, this plot may become an inspirational struggle film or a murder film in the shadow of the heart. , it's just in this movie that we have religion, so thank my Lord Jesus for saving a young man here.
In this case, the religion is actually not all the Lord with me, it should be Nang and my sister with me.
I think no matter what the profound humanistic connotation of a religion is, its reach to the spirit of most ordinary believers is always limited. For most people, the concept of Jesus can be simply abstracted into bread, bread, milk, woman, or even sword and stick. , and when religion and politics are linked together, religion has become a tool for careerists to climb up step by step. Ordinary believers are easily instigated—especially in a time when no one in the movies can read the tadpole scriptures of the Bible—when they carry out zeal to root out dissent for their preachers. At that time, they only had the pleasure of killing in their minds instead of the Lord’s oracle. I don’t really believe that when a person continues to fight in the face of corpses all over the ground, he still clearly thinks of Jesus’ merciful teachings, but when there are so-called so-called behind them. People are often able to do the most incomprehensible cruel things when they are supported by their beliefs.
And in such wave after wave of preaching, we have invisibly lost many human factors, such as love.
Speaking of which, Rachel Weisz is really amazing in this movie, but as a heroine, she seems to have always been a little detached from the story, obsessed with scientific research and philosophical thinking, and occasionally gushing up in men's discussions A few sincere but impractical remarks eventually became a "tool" for the local bishop to bring down the admiral politically (although I don't understand how the admiral was exiled...), but despite the embarrassment of his position A little bit, but it still has a certain symbolic meaning. As an unbeliever in the age of belief, she loves academics and dares to speak, and this may be the simplest and highest expectation of intellectuals in Western society.
But the men who love her are a bit tangled. She appeared as an out of place and was killed under the barbaric pressure of the outside world. As the protagonist, she shone with the brilliance of humanity. She is very dangerous, because her discordant times can cause prejudice and all kinds of difficulties to those around her, and the slave who loves her finally chooses to flee to religion (although in the end he runs back with an atonement-like idea), love her The Admiral was exiled at the end, and love had a hard time winning over religion in the end, but it was a complete defeat in the face of politics.
Religion is not far behind in the face of politics. The main reason for the unfortunate destruction of the Temple of Spicera and the Library of Alexandria was the imperial edict of the Roman emperor to establish Christianity as the state religion to destroy other religious idols in the city. Presumptuousness also comes from this paper document. You must know that in the regime change that followed, Christians died no better than polytheists.
In any case, this movie was made by Westerners, and it still carried a universal concept of "rationality" as the highest. Hypasia is a symbolic image full of "human nature". People called "intellectuals" who have outdated personalities, have a high chest and a heavy heart, are extraordinary outstanding people who have the status of "human nature" that marks an era, but unfortunately, because such people are few and far between. There are very few, so it is usually inevitable to be lonely.
"Oh human nature, what an unfortunate term." Wang Zengqi wrote in his "Rereading "Border Town", which wrote the sorrow of a generation of intellectuals, but there is no way, this is history, Saul Bellow has a novel It is called "The Gift of Humboldt", and the attitude of the protagonist is relatively clear: History is a nightmare, and I just want to sleep well. The unfortunate thing is that the world of machines that allow people to sleep and avoid nightmares has not yet been invented. Anyway, I don't think religion is that useful.
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