Recently, I often hear news about the end times, and all the signs this year have made many Christians feel the signs of Jesus’ return. Although this is a good thing, after the Lord returns, there will be judgment, and there will be new heavens and a new earth. There are no more tears and grievances, no more battles and pain. But whenever I think of the scenes before the end of the world, I still have lingering fears. In his letter to Timothy, Paul said: "Dangerous days will come in the last days. Because at that time people have to specialize in themselves, love money, boast, arrogant, disobey their parents, ungrateful, unsanctified, unkind. ...Sellers selling friends, arbitrariness, arrogance, love of pleasure, no love of God, appearance of godliness, but betrayed the true meaning of godliness" (2 Timothy 3) So, how should we prepare psychologically?
Going back to this film, Max was very sad to learn that China had created the atomic bomb. Pastor couldn't explain it to him because Pastor himself was facing a spiritual crisis-he couldn't find God. Max committed suicide, and his wife and children could not relieve his mental anxiety. From our point of view, is he too worried? Is China's creation of the atomic bomb directly related to him? The danger hasn't reached him yet, hasn't it? Why not'It's better to die than to live'?
The dead are dead, the alive is still in crisis. Bergman said that in all his works, this is the closest movie to himself. Why he said so, needs to be further sorted out.
With the development of the world today, more and more movies present doomsday scenes, but fewer and fewer can look forward to a better future. Why is it easier to imagine a dystopia than utopia? Has mankind lost the ability to imagine utopia? If so, where will this world go?
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