This is a movie that judges "kindness".
For his own goodness, the father does not participate in all forms of evil-he keeps his youngest son away from the battlefield, but he strictly abides by the duties of a recruiter and calls others to the front line; he hides it so that his son thinks that every cell of his own is written with kindness. After taking the identity information of their biological mother, he deceived his son to say that his biological mother was dead and dying of the cleanliness; he continued to forgive others like a great good man, forgiving his wife who did evil, and forgiving his eldest son every time he made a mistake.
But at the same time of forgiving, I picked it clean. I never contacted my wife for more than ten years. I didn't know that she lived on the other side. He also allowed his elder son to be jealous because he fell out of favor, but simply forgave him like a good man and read the Bible to him. But he never really loved the eldest son. He never noticed that the reason why the eldest son kept making mistakes was actually to attract his attention, and then broke the jar.
He gave the youngest son the same kindness as him, and kept the youngest son in a fragile mind. What he did and what he said made everyone in contact with him feel that he was wise, close, and upright, that he was evil to betray his wife and the eldest son was evil.
No one knows how big a lie this kind of perfection is. Because there are always people who have to bear the evils that he doesn't participate in, people around them gradually become irreversible evils.
He used his bestness to persecute the people around him, those close to those living in reality, admit his insignificance and sin before him, so under the identity of evil, his wife and eldest son really became evil. . Finally, the fragile young son saw his mother who had been doing evil on the other side of the river for many years, his faith collapsed and he was almost crazy.
Crude goodness is evil because it chooses the simplest way to do good, so it never has to bear the consequences and never reflect on itself. On the contrary, he is the eldest son of evil, who has learned to reflect and bear.
Goodness is so easy. True goodness comes from choice and compromise, not from closing your eyes.
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