Death comes earlier in the Ten Commandments (Part 2) than in the previous one. The cleaners found a frozen rabbit under the thick snow. He went from house to house to call the door, but no one claimed it. It's just a rabbit, but as a life, this way of ending has shown people from the very beginning that life and death are uncertain.
One of the protagonists of this film is an old doctor who is over sixty years old. Through the story he told to the maid Barbara, we can know that this is an old man with a sad past. He lost his wife and children in the war for many years. The solitary life that came to him made him withdrawn and slightly irritable, so when the heroine Dora appeared at his door to introduce herself and asked him if he knew her, he said slightly meanly: Yes, two years ago you met her. dead my dog.
Dora mustered up the courage to knock on the eccentric old man's door because her husband Keeler lived in the hospital where the old doctor worked, and from a medical point of view Keeler was dying, but Dora wanted to know more. The exact answer, because she is pregnant and the child of another man, he and her husband cannot have children, so if the husband will die before the child is born, she wants to have the child, otherwise, she will go for an abortion , even if the doctor told her that she would never have children again, she didn't care, she didn't want her husband to be hurt before he died.
Obviously this is a dilemma of choice, and it is about the survival of two lives, whether it is a dying husband or a child who is pregnant, they are completely equal in terms of the value of life itself, and as and A person whose two lives are closely related, Dora easily fell into this kind of moral dilemma, so she found a doctor, she hoped to use a scientific criterion to help him make the final choice, but the old doctor gave The answer is: the only thing I know is that I don't know.
Usually, doctors make pessimistic predictions about patients based on existing arguments, which is a fairly common phenomenon in medicine, but as a senior doctor with deep experience, he is reluctant to give Dora what she thinks. The answer she wants (the answer is not a death notice, she can also accept the other), as a doctor, in the eyes of ordinary people, he should be a kind of person who is quite numb to death, but the old doctor seems cautious and conservative, his personal The experience made him well aware of the uncontrollability of life, that death can take away those who should have lived well, and those who were considered to be obliged to die also struggled back from the brink of death by their own will.
This metaphor of indomitable vitality appears many times in the film, one is the doctor's pot of cactus that recovered after being sick, the other is the plant that was not broken under Dora's hands, and the other is in front of Keeler's hospital bed The bee struggling to escape in a glass of juice, whether it is a plant, an animal or a person, has such a strong desire to live, so as a doctor who has witnessed many deaths, including those of his relatives, he appears to be cold-hearted. , in fact, hidden his extreme respect for life and his refusal to give up the vague hope of survival.
However, as a film that expresses the theme of "choice", the doctor is not immune to the dilemma of choice, because his "non-judgment" of Keeler's fate has invisibly pronounced the fate of the child. If he cannot prove the fate of Keeler Le was going to die soon and Dora was going to have an abortion, so at the end of the day, the doctor sentenced Keeler to death, and swore it in the name of God. In his analysis, Professor Liu Xiaofeng regarded the doctor's promise to Dora as a well-intentioned deception. Such speculation undoubtedly aggravated the moral situation after the choice, but the original script and film did not clearly point out that the doctor's choice was adulterated. Personally, there was a scene where he and two of his assistants observed Keeler's tissue specimens in the lab and concluded that his condition was rapidly deteriorating. So the doctor's conclusion was not intentionally giving up one life for the other, he just made the kind of pessimistic prediction that most people would make, except that if you look back within the commandment, then he The "criminal" of him was that he pronounced the death of a man in the name of God.
Although at the end of the film, "taking the name of the Lord in vain" got a near-perfect happy ending: Keeler survived with his own will to survive, and he happily told the doctor that he was going to have a child. But the sin of "falsehood" does not change its nature due to the good or bad ending, and no one can make choices for other people's lives in the name of morality.
So when the "angel" reappeared in Keeler's ward, I didn't agree that it was a revelation of Keeler's life coming back to life, instead he was expressionless, just like Pavel's death in the first episode , he just acts as a bystander and is powerless to change anything, because the impermanence of fate can neither be predicted nor changed and chosen.
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