A long time ago, in a chat, we were asked this question: "If you knew you were going to die in a year, what would you do?" My dad said, "It's business as usual, life has to go on." My mom Saying, "If you know when you're dead and life is meaningless, then there's no point in doing anything." And when I was younger, I didn't know what life was for, I just wanted to play, so I said, "I I'll spend the year traveling, going to Paris, going to the Alps, going to Australia, going anywhere I want to see."
Iya said that in order to make his playthings struggle in pain, God created human nature. And human nature is so unpredictable, so different people have different answers to the same question, which is also one of the questions explored in the film: what will people do when they know the date of their death? The film interprets this issue through TV interviews and conversations with the new six disciples. The former focuses on elaboration, while the latter focuses on solutions. Some people, like my dad, live as usual, day by day, and death does not kill their enthusiasm for life; some people like my mother think that life has lost their passion; some even give up on themselves; some people like me want to spend the rest of their time watching Time; more people (Kevin) constantly challenge death (really hilarious).
The film can be said to be seriously anti-religion, or rather, anti-God. Compared to Lars von Trier's blatant attempt in "The Antichrist," the Trans-New Testament writers confront God with a more witty, more Christian, and more acceptable story.
Contrast is the theme of the film's unrestrained imagination. The film is full of contrasts. The God we think is noble, holy, fraternity, and supreme sage, while the God in the film is the opposite, he is perverted, he is sloppy, he is short-tempered, his happiness is based on the suffering of others On, he's just a bad old man living in Brussels. We think that the goddess in the film is elegant, pure, and the goddess in the film is an aging, bloated, but girlish aunt who is immortal. When we think that heaven is a holy place and a place where people will go after death, Yiya said, this is heaven, and after death there is nothingness. The film satirizes Christianity and opposes God through such contrasts with Christian doctrine and the world's thoughts.
Subversion is another theme of the film's unrestrained imagination. In our impression, Jesus, the Son of God, was under the guidance of God to save the world for the sake of the common people, but in the film, he ran away from home because he was dissatisfied with his father and wanted to change his father's cruel rule. The 12 disciples were called because of a A hockey team consists of 12 people. But God's daughter Yiya ran away from home because of a bickering with God. Under the guidance of Jesus, 6 more disciples were gathered because it was just enough to make up 18 people. 18 is the number of people in a baseball team. It also happens to be the lucky number of the goddess (fortunately, 18 at the end changed the world, just as 42 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy changed the universe).
In the traditional Christian belief, the time we live in is created by God, and the laws of the operation of all things, including birth, age, sickness and death, are controlled by God. This presupposition of God determines that God has supreme authority, and mortals must believe in God if they want to obtain happiness and salvation. The film completely overthrew the belief in God without reason through contrast and subversion. The world we live in is the so-called "heaven", and we rely on ourselves to obtain happiness and salvation, and it is useless to believe in God.
The choice of the 6 disciples is actually very realistic. These people exist in reality and they are very painful but easy to be ignored. The film is not only a serious anti-God, but also a very sad criticism of reality.
The first disciple was Aureli. She was a beautiful and dignified one-armed girl. She lost her arm in an accident when she was young. She was not very enthusiastic about life. She knew when she was going to die. There is no room for broken hearts to be broken again. She is admired by men but remains single, she is envied by women but does not say a word, she is like a toy loved by children but forgotten in the corner, full of contradictions in itself. Her motto is: Life is like an ice skating rink, and wrestling is inevitable.
The third disciple is a pornographer, he is addicted to the flesh of women and cannot extricate himself from it. He only sees and does not touch, and he is full of fantasies about beauty, which originated from a girl he met on the beach when he was a child. When he learned of his own death he went to work under the guidance of Elijah. He dubs porn, meets a woman who is the same girl he met as a kid, and they fall in love, which fills the rest of his days with passion.
The third disciple is a pornographer, he is addicted to the flesh of women and cannot extricate himself from it. He only sees and does not touch, and he is full of fantasies about beauty, which originated from a girl he met on the beach when he was a child. When he learned of his own death he went to work under the guidance of Elijah. He dubs porn, meets a woman who is the same girl he met as a kid, and they fall in love, which fills the rest of his days with passion.
The fourth disciple is a killer who has been very bloodthirsty since he was a child, a victim of God "whoever lives with you is not necessarily the one you love". When he learned of his death, he came to the bridge with a gun and decided to kill to see who was destined to die. Instigated by Yiya, he shot and hit the prosthetic limb of the first disciple, Aureli, who had just crossed the bridge. She was neither dead nor injured. The killer followed Aureli but was attracted by her temperament and fell in love with her. that's all. The killer harvested love and promised not to kill again, and Aureli's heart was opened.
The fifth disciple is Martina. She learned that her husband died nearly 30 years later than her. She also recognized the failure of her life and marriage. She bravely abandoned it all to pursue her true love. And the object of her true love is a gorilla. It is well known that we evolved from apes. Does this imply that we should return to nature?
The sixth disciple was Willie, a frail boy who wanted to become a girl when he learned of his death. Everyone has dreams, big or small, realistic or ideal, but it is important that you have a heart to pursue your dreams.
The 6 disciples represent the 6 types of people in society. They changed their lives after learning the date of their death. Life is changeable and unpredictable. There are no absolutes, only relative, and fate is in their own hands. .
The style of the film is changeable, from plot, to love, to comedy, to erotica, to literature and art, whatever style you want, but the overall tone of the film has not changed, it is a warning fable. It also strictly adheres to the three-act play process of constructing conflict - unfolding conflict - resolving conflict.
At the end of 18, the world was changed, God was exiled to Uzbekistan, the goddess took power, and the center of gravity was changed from male power to female power.
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