Interpretation of original sin: According to the biblical records, Adam and Eve were tempted by serpents, violated God's prohibition, and stole the fruit of wisdom from the Garden of Eden, thus committing sin. According to Christian theological arguments, Adam and Eve are the ancestors of mankind, so this sin was passed on to the descendants of Adam and Eve and became the source of all sins and disasters of mankind, so it is called original sin. Therefore, it is deduced that human beings are born with sin, human nature is inherently evil, and life is the process of redemption. When I saw the title of the film: Original Sin, I couldn't help asking myself: What is original sin, I have always believed in the existence of original sin, because I think human nature has an ugly side, so we need legal and moral constraints, another From an angle, sometimes I think that a person's life is a purgatory on earth, and people can't be smooth sailing, so we always keep atonement for ourselves on the way of making mistakes. I couldn't help but wonder how this film would express a point of view like original sin. Many movies, such as "Dogtown", "The Godfather", etc., have a theory of atonement and the ugly aspect of human nature. Too broad for a movie.
However, from the story of Adam and Eve mentioned in the Bible, Adam and Eve were punished for stealing the forbidden fruit. Combined with the encounter between the hero and heroine in the film, the hero's original intention is to marry a strange and virtuous good woman, have children for him, and then do his own business, without other thoughts and emotions. But when he saw the heroine, the beauty and charm of the heroine deeply attracted him, he got married without any hesitation and doubt, and lived a happy newly married life. He felt that he had fallen deeply in love with this woman, and he gave her everything he had. The part where the male protagonist's business partner talks to him: Alan asks him whether it is love or lust, love is giving, and lust is taking. luis says both, alan thinks luis is a lost man, luis says he thinks she is the lost one, and he will change that. The beginning of luis and julie is from appearance to sex, the beginning of lust, just like Adam and Eve stealing the forbidden fruit, and then he thinks he will love this woman, and it is precisely because of such a love of giving and taking that causes the evil in the back. . Julia deceived him, but he was still deeply indulged in this kind of love, deceived and betrayed again and again, and I kept asking myself while watching it, is this a love story or a human nature story. Then I remembered the words of the heroine in the title: "This is not a love story, but a story about love." It is because of love that they sin, and because of love, they atone for their sins.
When Luis finally finds Julia, Julia tells him that she's in love with him and that she's become more like herself because of being with him. We know that Julia has a partner who always seduces and coerces Julia to do something against her, such as cheating on her feelings to gain wealth, and Julia has never had the chance to be herself. Later, between coercion and love, Julia chose love. luis for what Julia thinks she kills, gets beaten at the gambling table, swallows poison, and I see them as atonement for what they did for each other's love.
A special place is the ending, where Julia escapes from prison and gambles with luis in a wonderland-like place where people are all dressed in white, in a white palace. I think such a scene arrangement is a symbol, it symbolizes Adam and Eve, the ending is good, what the director wants to express is that after the atonement, they have a happy ending, familiar cheating gestures, eye contact.
Perhaps the sins of life will not go away, but neither will the accompanying love. Even if our nature is inherently evil, our life is always on the road of redemption, but we are accompanied by love, how miserable life would be without love, and how much we should not live like ourselves.
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