The etiquette of the Catholic Church is the most complicated. Although there are various meanings behind these etiquettes, etiquette itself is only etiquette. In the past, when the Chinese Catholic Church used Latin for rituals, the participation of Catholics in Mass was not called "listening to mass" but called "wanging mass." why? Because the faithful do not understand Latin, even many priests just read it according to the pronunciation. But this does not affect everyone's participation in the life of the church. Because of the inevitable secular life, the mystified sacrament can become the foundation of people's miserable lives. The theology of the sacramental liturgy is basically like this: no matter how unbearable you are in life, whether you are a murderer or the priesthood of a child, in the sacramental liturgy, your identity is sanctified. This kind of beauty is connected with the beauty of pure mathematics and pure logic, and it is a kind of escape and relief.
But the comfort brought by the ceremony has its limits after all, and it needs our lives to be at least bearable. For example, others will not rudely replace your Bible and cross with "My Struggle" and a sword; for example, you will not be driven to Siberia because you participated in a sacrament presided over by someone who did not obey Moscow's orders. The worst humanitarian disaster of the 20th century was based on the political theology of racial purity or class purity. The bad thing about these new theologies is that, first of all, they value results rather than methods than old theologies; second, and more dangerously, they consecrate secular nations, secular countries, and secular political tactics. Some people blame this on enlightenment, but in fact, whether there is enlightenment or not, these will come sooner or later. This is a failure of old theology. Therefore, contemporary churches have begun to intervene in secular life, make faith and life related, and try to rebuild a life that requires faith instead of sanctifying life itself.
So, in this culturally prosperous post-enlightenment era, is the value of the ceremony itself lost? This video tells us that this is not the case. Regarding the complex modern life, the film did not express any opinions, but showed the whole process in a line-drawing style. The effect of this technique can be seen in film reviews. As a result, everyone is trying to give the film a meaning: about naturalism, about human alienation, about efficiency and benefits, about advanced technological civilization... …
Kubrick, Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, and Tarkovsky also value the sense of ritual, but their form is still serving purpose, and they still want to express it in a way of condemning the teeth. Opinion, they are representatives of old theology. For modern people, if you want to express your opinion, you must either speak it bluntly or in the way of Verhoven or Alan Moore: You know exactly what you want to say, and you pretend not to say that until the final truth. Dabai, happily play with your audience as idiots. As for documentaries like "Our Daily Food" and "Unbalanced Life", they are different. They completely gave up their theoretical efforts and just quietly showed it to you and let others comment on it. For the first type of film, the audience said "what does he mean" after watching; for the second type of film, the audience's impression is "Ah! He actually meant this!"' For the third type of film , The audience will say: "I think..." after watching it.
This is the reason why we like to watch "Mushishi" and listen to Philip Glass. At least at a brief moment in your sad life, you don’t need to think about whether you should support LGBT, support deportation of immigration, support gun rights and austerity policies, and support exit from the European Union; you also don’t need to think about whether children should be taken by the elderly and how to get rid of them. Should we say hello to ex-boyfriends and meeting old leaders... As Schopenhauer suggested, at this moment we are just appreciating a purely ritual beauty, appreciating one like the one in "Star Solaris" A simple and purposeless existence like Dayang. Existence precedes essence. In this meaninglessness, we can see infinite possibilities.
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