The God of the Super New Testament is like this: He lives in a cramped room in Brussels, he has a grumpy personality; he has a submissive wife, a failed son Jesus, and a rebellious daughter Ija. God does not go out every day, hides in his office, and writes down all kinds of dilemma rules on the computer to toss human beings, such as "misfortunes do not come singly", such as "the bread must fall to the ground with the sauce", such as "the person who married you may not be It's what you love."
Such a God, who takes pleasure in it all day long, rules over mankind, and rules over his own family. Until one day, his daughter Iya betrayed him, sneaked into his office, and sent out all human death information. Yiya, who was in trouble, simply ran away from home and followed the advice of his brother Jesus to find 6 new disciples.
Because all human beings know their own time of death, the world will never be the same. Some people are passively waiting for death, and some people are willing to test the limit of death. The various weaknesses of human beings are exposed. Ijah will find her disciples among these people. Because Jesus said, if you put together 18, you can change the world.
These six disciples are extremely representative. They stand for: fear, disaster, disability, emptiness and apathy and discrimination. With Yiya's help, their souls were led out of their original predicament and became Yiya's followers.
This film deconstructing religion contains a lot of deep meaning in the absurdity. Although it is a comedy, many scenes are touching. For example, a woman who lost her left hand dreamed that her left hand was dancing, so she burst into tears; for example, the clumsy but trembling voice of a killer after meeting his love. Everyone has shortcomings and loneliness, but they all have the opportunity to get out of these difficulties and gain peace of mind on the road of life. In the "Super New Testament", it seems that Elijah helped them, but in fact, it was their own humanity that made them come out - kindness and a heart that believed in love.
At the same time, God is in the world in a state of embarrassment. He walked through the long washing machine aisle, ready to take his daughter back to teach him a hard lesson, but in the secular world, he was tortured by the predicament rules he set. He yelled at the hospital and was beaten; he refused to line up to get porridge and was beaten; he grabbed the child's jam bread, and the jam side fell to the ground; he made rude words in the church, and finally the devout believers could not bear it, it was like a storm The fist fell on him. At the same time, the statue of Jesus in the church smiled - finally someone beat up this bastard Lao Tzu and got angry for me. This scene is ironic.
In the end the world is saved and the countdown to people's death is abolished. Only later did I realize that the dumb wife who saved the world was the Virgin Mary. She smiles like a child: she likes baseball rather than football. Although she is usually suppressed by God, her husband, only football games can be shown on TV, but after the disciples have gathered 18 (also the number of a baseball team) , She finally realized her little wish, so she happily reset the world on the computer, and flowers bloomed in the sky on earth.
This movie is very interesting. It dissolves divinity in an absurd way. It sets a grumpy and incompetent God and sends a little girl to successfully resist him. It tells us that nothing is omnipotent, and those fears only come from the unknown: God doesn't even know how to restart his computer when he crashes, and he can't even find the washing machine door when he goes home. Why does he let him rule and play tricks on mankind ?
Nietzsche once declared loudly: God is dead. Since then, mankind has stood up. Yiya led the homeless to float on the water, but God fell down and fluttered in the river. The fear of the unknown cannot and should not rule mankind. Only the love of mankind itself is the ultimate weapon to resolve all predicaments.
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