I don't watch many religious movies, this one was on Sunday evening on the recommendation of a friend
The biggest feeling is a question - is it the belief that makes people crazy, or is it that a small number of people use religion/belief to make religions and beliefs extreme, and the general public follows crazy?
There are probably several beliefs in the movie, the teacher's belief in science, devout Christians, pagans, and Jews. From the square argument, the religious extreme beliefs of the film have been established, and pagans/Jews and Christians have come and gone several times. The past acts of revenge gradually pushed religious belief to the point of life and death.
The behavior of slaves can be regarded as the driving force of the plot of the movie, from the admiration of knowledge and goddess at the beginning, to the betrayal of the "family" (the logic behind the movie is not explained in detail, probably the reason should be dissatisfaction with social status, there are Favorite heroine, but identity does not allow expression and struggle), radical blackening, and finally change and hope to rescue the heroine (there should be two emotions, one is inner doubt and reflection on the behavior of radical Christians, the other is In the last scene, in order to avoid the humiliation of the heroine, she was strangled in pain in hugs/tears (he said that he fainted, but it should actually be death).
Faith and pragmatism - the first question after the failure of the pagans is why there are so many Christians overnight, what comes to mind here is that Christians follow pragmatism, the way the countryside surrounds the city, and unites the poor and lower-middle peasants .
Faith and Feelings - There are probably two typical couples in this conflict movie. The first is the betrayal of slaves. In fact, there is not much conflict between beliefs and emotions. Changing beliefs is also considered to change one's social status, so that there may be the possibility of being under the same roof with the heroine (the first time betrayal) Later, the slave finally brought the knife to meet the heroine, and kissed the heroine, and finally gave the knife/his life to the heroine. Unexpectedly, the heroine finally freed him as a slave). Another conflict was that the student officials were unwilling to kneel and worship the Bible. The starting point and maintenance of this conflict was actually their own feelings for the heroine.
Finally, although Western society is now less enthusiastic about religion. But the whole is still the mainstream values dominated by Christianity (including Catholicism and Protestantism). I didn't expect that Christianity in the movie was directly shaped as extreme as the Green Religion.
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