The power of tranquility

Alec 2022-01-19 08:01:31

When I was insomnia a few days ago, I finished watching this long-collected movie in half asleep and half awake. It seems that after listening to a gentle poem, the impetuosity and anxiety in the mood are alleviated, and what emerges spontaneously is a belief in life and a sense of peace of mind of returning to home. This may be attributed to the music used in the film, to the photographer's capture of the beautiful scenes of nature and daily life, and to the director's calm, restrained, gentle, subtle and powerful narrative control.

The Vatican should award this film and the director and acting team an outstanding honor award: because it shows the best aspect of faith in God.

Jerusalem should have carved a tear on the stone wall for it: because it portrayed the gods and their respective believers with tolerance and compassion, whether lost or saints.

This is an epic that sings and sings in low voice, because the people it recalls, like the people who sing it, have a compassionate and tender heart. Even if there are weakness, fear, and bloodshed in this story, kindness cannot be concealed. , The existence of trust and love, and the ultimate power of tranquility and compassion.

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Extended Reading
  • Jessyca 2022-04-24 07:01:22

    It's very beautiful, I don't know, I thought it happened in the Middle Ages, but when I saw 1996, I knew it was in the present world

  • Sunny 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    The director focused the lens more on the hearts of the characters in the play. The pictures were rich in texture, and the solemn and pious prayers, from the fear of the upcoming catastrophe to the final peace of mind, highlighted the steadfastness of these monks. Faith, the transition from a weak human nature to a strong divine nature.

Of Gods and Men quotes

  • Christian: We are martyrs out of love, out of fidelity. If death overtake us, despite ourselves, because up to the end, up to the end we'll try to avoid it. Our mission here is to be brothers to all. Remember that love is eternal hope. Love endures everything.

  • Christian: Once they were gone, all we had left to do was live. And the first thing we did was - two hours later - we celebrated the Christmas vigil and mass. It's what we had to do. It's what we did. And we sang the mass. We welcomed that child who was born for us absolutely helpless and already so threatened. Afterwards, we found salvation in undertaking our daily tasks: The kitchen, the garden, the prayers, the bells. Day after day, we had to resist the violence. And day after day, I think each of us discovered that to which Jesus Christ beckons us: It's to be born. Our identities as men go from one birth to another. And from birth to birth, we'll each end up bringing to the world the child of God that we are. The incarnation, for us, is to allow the filial reality of Jesus to embody itself in our humanity. The mystery of incarnation remains what we are going to live. In this way, what we've already lived here takes root as well as what we're going to live in the future.