"The Samaritan Girl" has a direct relationship with the "Bible" from its title to its content. In the "Bible • New Testament • Gospel of John", Jesus came to the city of Sychar in Samaria, and sat beside Jacob's well because he was tired from walking. At this time, a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus went Said to her, "Give me water, please." The woman said to Jesus, "How can you ask me for water, a Samaritan woman, if you are a Jew?" Because in 700 B.C.E. After the Israelites occupied the kingdom of Israel and captured Samaria, the people here turned away from the LORD they had originally believed in, and went to serve foreign idols. Since then the Samaritans have been despised by orthodox Jews. That's why women ask this question. But Jesus avoided answering, but promised her, I ask you for water to give you living water, and you will be thirsty again after drinking this well, and the living water I will give you—“If anyone drinks what I have The water I give will never be thirsty. The water I will give him will be a spring in him, springing up to everlasting life.” The Samaritan woman, who represented the betrayal of her faith, had five men in all, but none of them were Her true husband, who represents uncleanness but is ultimately saved by Jesus, when she returns to Samaria she spreads the thoughts of Christ throughout the land of rebellion.
I like the first half very much, I don't think Jierong suffers from desire, at the beginning of the film Jierong claims to be Vasumitra from India, and everyone who slept with her became a devout Buddhist Disciples, Vasumitra gives them the pleasure of sex and also triggers the love in their hearts, freeing them from lust and saving their dirty, greedy souls. Bodhisattva has thousands of faces, Vasumitra is the prostitute of World Friends Bodhisattva, and is often mentioned in Buddhist scriptures.
The purpose of prostitution, wanting to go to Europe itself is Jie Rong's way of exploring the world, and so is prostitution. It's a pity that this incorrect way can only be read in dead sentences. Jie Rong was smiling all the time. That kind of unadulterated smile made me think she was the one who redeemed others, saving men and saving Yi Jun. And when she jumped downstairs with a smile, shattered her skull and was about to die, her only wish was to see the guest she fell in love with again, the musician. I wonder if she, who has been smiling all the time, also wants to find someone to rescue her. In the face of Yi Jun's request, that person responded with ruthless violence, and finally he arrived at the hospital, but Jierong was no longer able to fulfill her wish. Kim Ki-duk brutally shattered the girl's dream, and straightly spread the indifference of the world.
Whether it is the sacrificial "giving" of the Virgin Mary of the daughter or the violent "judgment" of the father Yahweh, they are all accompanied by loss and cause huge moral defects. The daughter returned the money to the clients and offered her body to them. It seemed that she was washing away her sins and guilt in her heart, but it was actually a double loss of body and soul. The dialogue between the Samaritan women and Christ in the Gospel of John was written earlier, and this refers to the record of the Samaritans who betrayed Jehovah and went to serve foreign idols in the Bible. A man who betrays his faith (the restraint of secular morality) cannot be redeemed, and he will die without taking a sip of the living water that "flows into eternal life." I don't think it's two endings, it's a continuation and a succession, a continuation of reality behind fiction. The parable at the end of the father strangling his daughter and then burying it is like the last violent trial he did, and unlike those men, he wanted her daughter to be redeemed after being buried, he taught her to drive, and hoped for a trial in fiction After the end, the daughter can live a pure and new life, grasp the steering wheel of life in reality, and have the opportunity to drink the living water that "flows straight to eternal life". But the father's arrest will expose the daughter. The father's imaginary judgment is temporary, and the daughter will be judged forever and live with moral filth. And when the father was taken away by the police car, and the daughter manipulated the car, but was deeply stuck in the quagmire, stuck in the same place, whether it is Buddhism or Christianity, it also implies that redemption and redemption are impossible.
And the father in the dark to prevent these men from having sex with his daughter, using violence, from indirectly causing a man to jump off a building to killing a man with his own hands, all these are morally lost and cannot save his daughter. I don't like the story of my father very much. The family love is also superficial, and it looks painful to the bone, but it is actually wishful thinking, and I never think about what the other party needs.
And the men seem to have been redeemed through the body of the Samaritan girl. Some people say that they are ten years younger and begin to relate to their families. Some people say I thank you very much, I will pray for you the rest of the time, I never thought that a prostitute could be so sanctified, there are many examples of the emotional connection between a prostitute and a client. It is quite rare to sacrifice oneself and redeem others. But in the end, this redemption is still like a dream bubble, even if the dirty past is cleaned up little by little, and the things that torment them are gently smoothed by Yi Jun, but after their father's "trial", some of them jumped from the high building, Sin is like the watch that fell off, finally no longer attached to the body, and can go naked. The other person was beaten to death in the public toilet by Yi Jun's father, and his desire was sinful. In the end, no matter how fermented, sin was still sin.
I don't like this movie very much, I like Kim Ki-duk's extreme writing in closure, but I still think it's a good movie.
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