Scorsese’s Catholic life background does not mean that he should substitute Catholic concepts into the textual analysis of Scorsese’s films, but the imagination of religion has permeated his way of reshaping the world and understanding the world. Clear religious themes, but religious symbols can be seen everywhere in the film, such as the Jesus sculpture in the hospital, the Chinese nuns preaching on the street, and the protagonist’s identity as the savior, all showing religious connotations beyond ordinary horror and supernatural films .
Sir, ask him to take a bath first), a black maniac saw an ambulance hit his head and made atonement with the blood spattered from his head, lying on the road just to get on the road to heaven, and the man in the hospital was thirsty The tramp who couldn't drink a glass of water was obviously punished and couldn't get the holy water that quenched his thirst. The light in the whole film is very particular. The night view of New York is shrouded in exaggerated blue, red, yellow and black. The buildings are dilapidated, the streets are chaotic and corrupt. The number of street girls who are pregnant and still working is unchecked, and everyone who lives in them They are all in collapse, yes, this is the hell where the angels live. As a guide in the real world, the protagonist is tortured because of doubts about his ability as a savior, and he cannot distinguish between life and death, and the boundary between reality and fantasy. Mental crisis, and the protagonist’s work experience has many elements in the Bible, including the power of a virgin daughter (a pair of Mexican siblings insist that they are virgins who do not drink, smoke, or take drugs, so they don’t even believe that their sister is pregnant), The temptation brought by the use of psychedelics (in the Bible, Jesus was tempted by the devil to be lost in the desert for 41 days, while the protagonist woke up and left with his lover in the drug dealer’s room), his second black colleague mobilized the crowd to pull hands After praying for a broken love, the young man who took drugs was reborn, and finally prayed for success. Suddenly on the road, he was suddenly excited and drunk driving and overturning the car. It was this black colleague who was like a magic stick who pulled the drug-taking coma back to the real world and deliberately came out. The car accident caused the protagonist who was on the verge of a mental breakdown to experience the test of death. The protagonist climbed out of the car without any injuries. Just as Jesus had an indestructible and immortal body after his resurrection, this black colleague is a bit like the god of dreams in Greek mythology, followed by mercy. Sacrificing self to save others: the next colleague of the protagonist beats a gangster who smashed a car in a back alley. The protagonist stops and saves them in time, which embodies loving forgiveness. The content of sacrificing self to save others appears. In the most surreal scene in the film, a jumper's body is pierced by a pointed guardrail. The fire light from the ambulance's chainsaw hitting the iron fence shines on the opposite Empire State Building. The punishment for piercing the body and the firelight are images of hell. After the railing was sawed off, the protagonist almost fell with the jumper who lost the support. This plot corresponds to the story told by the black colleague in front of him (persuade a suicide to accompany him if he jumps downstairs). The liberated soul produces a sense of freedom and makes a moral decision. Take off the old man’s oxygen cylinder to avoid the suffering of the world. At the end, the protagonist and his lover lie on the bed and enjoy the shower of holy light. This image of light and body fusion breaks through The frightening loneliness formed a dark and closed inner world, as if his physical body was flying to heaven. He jumps together). The liberated soul produces a sense of freedom and makes a moral decision. Take off the old man’s oxygen cylinder to avoid the suffering of the world. At the end, the protagonist and his lover lie on the bed and enjoy the shower of holy light. This image of light and body fusion breaks through The frightening loneliness formed a dark and closed inner world, as if his physical body was flying to heaven. He jumps together). The liberated soul produces a sense of freedom and makes a moral decision. Take off the old man’s oxygen cylinder to avoid the suffering of the world. At the end, the protagonist and his lover lie on the bed and enjoy the shower of holy light. This image of light and body fusion breaks through The frightening loneliness formed a dark and closed inner world, as if his physical body was flying to heaven.
In summary, wine, water, blood, and psychedelics represent the holy artifacts of God’s activities in the material world. There is another saying that the bloody scalpel is in its shape as a metaphor for a cross, and the clothes of police doctors resemble the holy robe used in Catholic ceremonies. .
The film tries to show that the belief in the savior, the infinite tolerance for saving others and personal love, and the hope of ultimate salvation are the moral behaviors that human beings must have in order to be saved.
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