There really is heaven

Benedict 2022-01-16 08:01:13

There was snow in Spain in July. After a day of unconsciousness, after doing yoga, even though it was already ten o’clock, I decided to go to a movie, and found that I was more and more inclined to watch movies with content instead of there. Special effects movies, especially after watching a few old movies without special effects that subvert my worldview. So I chose this "El cielo es real" (El cielo es real), which was based on the 2010 best-selling novel in the United States. It sold 3 million copies, including e-books. I haven't read the book, but I really like the movie. It is a film with a very calm narration. I saw my heart beating several times and my soul was out of my body, so I scored 9 points for this.

The story tells the story of a 4-year-old child who went to heaven after death and then returned. While watching the movie, I have been thinking about death. This is a subject that is not easy to grasp, because many people will reject the discussion of death. Death is reflected everywhere in the movie. The professions that appear include doctors, firefighters, and priests. They are all professions that face death every day, but they don’t feel the horror of death. On the contrary, they see the helplessness of life. To fully enjoy the beauty of these people in life. Suddenly I feel that life is like this. Every day we have to face crisis events similar to death, and then we wait and pray, even if it should happen in the end, it will happen. But this is the real life, otherwise, like Jia Baoyu in the Grand View Garden, how do you know if you have lived or just had a dream?

Before watching the movie, I didn’t believe in heaven. I thought it was made up and deceived. After watching the beginning, I think it’s understandable for people to believe in heaven, because after their relatives leave, they don’t want to accept this fact, but believe it. They are still living somewhere; halfway through the story, I began to think, why can't there be heaven? Human beings are so ignorant, maybe it’s just that you don’t know it. I think if you let people sit in a movie theater a hundred years ago and tell them what they are seeing now happened on the other side of the earth a few months ago. Yes, they will definitely feel that God exists. Then who knows that five hundred years later, people cannot collect the souls of dead people through some kind of machine, so that they can reappear in our lives and tell us what is happening on the other side of the world, just like the little boy in the film. ; At the end of the movie I saw, I found that I actually began to believe that there really is a heaven. There should be a heaven. It is a world similar to the world we live in, where the people we love are always young, happy and in love. Of life. We don’t believe in the existence of heaven, just because there are too many deceptions in this world, let us learn to doubt everything, but why should we doubt such a beautiful world because of those who make deceptions, those who are ignorant Authenticity?

There are a lot of things I like in the movie. For example, the male protagonist has a married life that I admire, spacious country houses, beautiful fields, and lovely children, but more importantly, understanding and trust. He really believes that his son has been to heaven. Most people probably I think he is crazy, but he finally won everyone's approval and support in the film. I think this kind of love and understanding is the most basic thing for a good life, even if there is no money. For another example, the purity of his son's eyes all the time. The child is like an angel without the logic of an adult. This reality is so rare. He fully believes in the heaven he sees and can be unpretentious. Describing what he saw was like describing how he ate and slept. I think many artists do the same. The essence of art is a kind of prayer, which is to return to the true soul, which is to pour the moment of divinity into their works.

In fact, Jesus is among us. He has passed by us hundreds of thousands of times, but we have not noticed it, and even think that he is false. This is a sad loss in itself.

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Heaven Is for Real quotes

  • Todd Burpo: What if you have an experience so far beyond your own experience, it's irrational. What then?

  • Sonja Burpo: Honey, you know you should have turned the other cheek, though, right?

    Cassie Burpo: I did turn his other cheek. When I hit him.

    Colton Burpo: Is Cassie going to get a spanking.

    Todd Burpo: Heck, no. I'm going to teach her how to hit without hurting her knuckles.