The ending miracle may seem abrupt, but there are clever film language foreshadowing:
1) Lines. Johannes entered the room and predicted that "there is a dead person in this room". Since the child is dead, the mother must be resurrected.
2) The language of the lens in the other place is very hidden. During the doctor's operation, the camera of the mother Inger was upside down, and soon the news came out: the child died; the second time in the same position, the mother's head was upright, and the news was that Inger had survived. Later, when the news of Inger's death came out, the image was still taken upright. So, according to this lens hint: Inger will not die.
I have to talk about the so-called "words"-resurrection. Didn't Johannes name the dead first? What is more "miracle" than the resurrection is the saying "There is a dead man in this room".
All life and death are doomed in the dark, and words are just a ray of light for people to see.
I read the comment before and talked about the law of man, the Greek word nomoi, and suddenly I found it interesting: nomoi means no+moi (the French accusative "I")-no self. Individuals are full of emotions and therefore uncertain, while the law and that rule are to go to me and find a commonality in the group, namely: God.
It is never "God created man in his own image", but man created God in his own image. Dreyer's choice of miracle manifestation was still too blunt, too wanting to prove something, craftsmanship. But it is indeed advanced craftsmanship.
I recently read Li Yiyun’s "Dear Friend, from my life I write to you in your life" and mentioned Turgenev’s sentence "We write to narrative, not to prove."
Talk about God, or the existence of God, without talking about miracles. God's existence is in the heart, and he is there, and he is self-evident. His great work of transforming people's hearts is far more shocking than the earth shaking the mountain and the resurrection of the dead.
In this sense, Dreyer's own shooting of such a rigorous and exquisite religious film is a miracle in itself. It seems a bit sophistry, but at least it expresses what I want to say.
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