In an inconspicuous little street in Paris, I was attracted by the strange friendship between a 16-year-old Jewish boy and an Arab old man. If you hadn't read the cast, you wouldn't really recognize that this windy old man was actually the "Doctor Zhivago" I loved back then. Omar Shariff, I really can’t figure out why Hollywood chose this Egyptian of Palestinian descent to play the role of the Russian. Fortunately, he played the role perfectly.
There are a lot of films that have been handed in at the end of the year, but this film should be more than that simple. The racial and religious identities of the elderly and children are not arranged randomly. Let's take a closer look here. The life of a Jewish teenager, Momoa, was full of bitterness: his parents were divorced, his life was difficult, his father had some problems with his rigid mind, and he ended up suicide. After his mother returned, he didn't even know his son. Eventually, the child was happy to be adopted by the elderly. His father was addicted to books all day long and always reprimanded his son for not reading books, suppressing the child's nature. Forget it, even making up a non-existent son who loves to read to belittle this son, it's really abnormal! The child never smiled at home, it was the Arab old man who taught him to smile for the first time. Here, the stiffness and gloomy depression of the Jews lost to the peace and tolerance of the Arabs. During their long journey at the end of the film, Momoa said that he no longer felt melancholy in his heart, and that he still worshipped the Quran and the old man’s precepts and deeds.
The "Quran" throughout the film is not a rigid doctrine. The old man always mentions the "Quran in my heart" and the sect "Sufi" to which he belongs. After searching on GOOGLE, Sufism is a sect that emerged after Islam and Eastern Christianity and so on. It mainly "advocates for a lively understanding of the supreme Lord" and believes that "the Lord is in everything", and it is by no means rigid and religious. Ceremony can be pursued. Many people regard Sufism as a mysticist faction, but there are also many people who think that it brings life to Muslim beliefs. In this way, the old Muslim Ibrahim in this film is a practitioner of this doctrine: loving his only deceased wife all his life, living humbly and silently away from his homeland, and guiding a young man to his true heart. The road to happiness, passed away peacefully in my hometown. Such a life has completely subverted conventional Islam, showing the kind and wise side of tolerance and humanity.
Suddenly feel that this is true of any religion or doctrine. If you believe in dogma too much, people will lose their basic humanity and become cruel and ugly; and the moderate and moderate beliefs, no matter which school or school, can make people achieve goodness. Is the real well-being! So did our ancestors be the smartest and pointed out a way to happiness long ago? !
It is said that the movie is based on a novel, so I guess the author must be a man. The women in the film are flawed: Momo’s mother doesn’t even know her son, the street prostitutes are kind, but they trade money and flesh, and the girl next door is innocent but quickly falls in love with another boy, leaving her fickle. Notoriety. It seems that regardless of Judaism or Islam, the inferiority of men and women is the classic and unchanging law.
In addition to his possessions, the old Ibrahim left to Momo at the end of the Quran. His Quran was nothing special, except for the two dried blue daisies on the last page. What exactly does the flower of the Quran refer to? Occasionally, it is probably the ultimate truth to put aside all textual doctrines. In fact, it is very simple and plain, like a small flower, but it is so beautiful!
Where did you understand this truth? It should be the indescribable Zen!
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