If Bergman's trilogy of faith is a complete denial of the existence of God, then Dreyer's "Words" is an affirmation of the existence of God. The story of this film revolves around the contradiction between the two families of different beliefs.
The farmer is a devout Christian and he has three sons. The eldest son is an atheist, but he is kind-hearted and hardworking. The eldest son had a daughter with his Christian wife, and the wife was pregnant with a second child.
The second son is the one that the father values and admires most. The father worked hard to train his wise second son to become a theologian, and hoped that the second son could teach Christianity to other people in the village, because only his family in the whole village was a Christian believer. But in the process of studying religion, the second son went crazy and turned into a "madness" full of words in the Gospel of Matthew. Often ran to the top of the mountain alone to talk to the sky, claiming to be Jesus.
The third son fell in love with the daughter of a tailor in the same village, but due to the different beliefs of the two families, both parents firmly opposed the relationship.
The film spent a lot of time for the eldest daughter-in-law to persuade the father to fulfill the love of the three sons, but the father just couldn't accept any son in the family to associate with infidels. At this time, the third son ran to the tailor's house secretly to see his sweetheart, but was blasted out of the house by the tailor on the pretext of being a heretic. The ecosystem where the two families despise each other is quite happy.
After the third son went home, he told his father the story, and the father angrily took the third son to find a tailor to reason. At the tailor's house, the two attacked each other, belittled each other's beliefs, and persuaded each other to change their beliefs. Just when the two quarreled, the second son called and said that the eldest daughter-in-law was about to give birth, and the situation was critical. The father immediately prepared to leave, and the tailor even cursed the farmer's family for misfortune. As a result, the eldest daughter-in-law died on the bed, as did the child in her belly... Just as the family was grieving, the crazy second son also disappeared. The news spread throughout the village. After the tailor learned that such an unfortunate incident had really happened to the enemy, the controversy over faith seemed naive and ridiculous in the face of death, and the previous curse was even more embarrassing. So he took his daughter to the farmer's house to attend the funeral and agreed to the marriage of the two families. The two also shook hands and made peace. The eldest son looked at his wife in the coffin with grief, but at this time the missing second son came back. He became normal and looked mature, sensible, and wise. He took his niece by the hand and resurrected his sister-in-law in the name of God in front of everyone. The eldest son held his resurrected wife. He, who had no faith, saw a miracle, and everyone witnessed the birth of religion.
It is a new beginning for the two, a new beginning for the two, the beginning of faith, in the name of Jesus.
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