Winter light

Rubie 2022-01-12 08:01:36

"The Lord never speaks because he doesn't exist, it's that simple."

This is almost a church movie. From the beginning to the end, most of the scenes are in the church. The characters are the pastor and a few believers. An unbeautiful woman who loved the pastor but did not get his love or even treated her with kindness. He claimed that she only loved her deceased wife. A thin and tall man was panicked just because he read from the newspaper that China made the atomic bomb. He had listened to his wife’s persuasion and wanted to go to the pastor for some comfort, but he did not expect to see the pastor speak incoherently better than himself. Still confused, he left his wife and four sons to commit suicide in complete despair. The pastor finally felt relieved when he cried and said, "Why the Lord abandoned me". Others said that Christ was puzzled before he died, shouting "Why the Lord abandoned me?" Others suspected that when he was nailed to the cross, the pain in his heart was more than the pain in his body. It is true that the pain in his heart is the most difficult to bear.

At the end of the movie, the pastor insisted on preaching in the deserted church. The person playing the organ is a rare funny part in the film.

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Extended Reading
  • Wilburn 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    The most moving religious movie I've seen so far. Compared with "The Virgin Spring", the emotional expression here is more real and rich. Worldly love and religious love, a woman who cannot love, a priest who cannot read God. Large sections are monologues, trivial chatter, sun, snow, and death. The bell rang, and Marta, the least devout believer, turned out to be the only one in the audience.

  • Esmeralda 2022-03-20 09:02:24

    God’s language is silence. I think in fact, people are not talking to God, but to themselves; everyone is talking to you, either by God’s will, or simply by their own imagination; and these conversations all happen in Faro. island.

Winter Light quotes

  • Tomas Ericsson, Pastor: I had this fleeting hope... That everything wouldn't turn out to be illusions, dreams and lies.

  • [last lines]

    Tomas Ericsson, Pastor: Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts. The whole earth if full of His glory.