The film begins with puzzling details and a generally understandable synopsis, with the boy in the chair (and later a man) appearing throughout; Joan of Arc can be understood as a child with a good heart, right? , and there is this seemingly divine paranoia inside. Later, she got a sword, and the fire of war could not wait to burn to her hometown. She saw the saint who helped her - her sister was humiliated and died. As we all know, the later plot is a heroic saving the country, and then a heroic death.
There are several very notable imagery in the film - the sword, the red wine, the man in black, the man in white and the wind.
Before Joan of Arc met the French crown prince, the original side of Joan of Arc was shown in the film, but her gradual paranoia and self-imagination factors were also added; these factors became more and more important in the later stage of the film—— So much so that many conversations are carried out in her mind. Seeing this, I thought of a word - schizophrenia; it may be a bit heavy to say that, but Joan of Arc is indeed out of balance in terms of balancing the two selves - the inner balance is out of balance. Director Luc Besson "sanctified" Joan of Arc and tried to find out what caused such an illiterate and immobile peasant woman to lead the French army to victory in the war. There are two forces in Joan of Arc that support her to accomplish what she says - the message to be conveyed: one, the most primitive belief in her heart, and two, her inner paranoia, persistence and self-imagination. Of course, the second point came after she was ridiculed. The most primitive belief in her heart came from his belief in God. Regarding God's covenant and oath, she firmly believed that the Lord Jesus was always with her and was her spiritual food. However, Joan of Arc also had doubts and incomprehension. He did not understand why God told him to drive away the invaders, but he could not help but kill. At this time, the scene of the man in white covering his head with blood—I think, not only got me together, but also attracted the attention of many people who have seen the movie; this can be regarded as one of the more terrifying scenes in the movie. I think that's when Joan of Arc's first layer of self-imagination collapsed, and it happened near the end of the war. She found an inevitable contradiction in the thoughts that had been swirling in her mind. Joan of Arc came to the rescue of the French people with a message from the Lord Jesus of Justice, and she always believed that she was the embodiment of absolute justice, so she ignored the orders of the field commander - which later proved to be the right thing to do. The man in white grew up as Joan of Arc grew up, constantly appearing in Joan's mind. The man in white is always accompanied by the wind. I think this is the inducement that can make Joan of Arc imagine; there is a scene in the movie, when other people are still fighting, at this time, a gust of wind blows from Joan of Arc, and the sky The light and the cloud are constantly intertwined, and Joan of Arc has a very doubtful expression to generate an inner conjecture. Perhaps it was in this way that her inner beliefs were continuously strengthened, so that she could persevere in the eyes full of criticism and ridicule, and it was also because of the man in white behind her.
After the crowning of the French crown prince, the man in white hardly appeared, and Joan of Arc was betrayed and imprisoned. At this time, a man in black appeared instead. Joan of Arc used to call him Satan because she saw that the man in black could constantly change his face. But the man in black can't be called a devil. The man in black is the force that makes the heart gradually face reality. The men in black frequently attacked Joan. He questioned Joan's inner beliefs and tried to break the falsehood that Joan had built up in her heart. The vision of Joan of Arc under the "torture of the alter ego" is intertwined with the secular inquisition. Was Joan of Arc not believing what she did was just a coincidence, or was it a misunderstanding from the very beginning? When Joan of Arc was in a desperate situation, she had to ask questions about her original insistence. When she discovered the truth of her inner form—everything might be just her own imagination, Joan of Arc’s first layer of imagination really disappeared without a trace, and what was left was just living with reality and remaining inner beliefs in a small cell. struggle.
Joan of Arc's sword appears only a few times in the film, but it is precisely the beginning of Joan of Arc's self-imagination and misunderstanding. Joan of Arc may have believed that the sword was descended by God, and then Joan of Arc got the message she was going to bring to the crown prince. The sword - is the beginning of misunderstanding and the path of Joan of Arc. The sword may have been a weapon lost in the war, after all, the war had come to her hometown; but Joan of Arc saved the French with it.
Joan of Arc was a great person, she saved the French in her inner struggle; her sentence "God, why did you abandon me?" before being burned at the stake moved everyone.
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