Christmas eve, I rewatched the four-episode version of the TV series "Thorn Birds" alone at home. There is no other play that can better explain the love, hatred and confusion, all past and future, that I have been born with because of my faith.
Two years ago on Christmas Eve, I read the Bible and exchanged gifts with brothers and sisters in the church. After that, I left and never wanted to go back. A year ago, I went to a nearby city 4 hours by car to seek my homeland and old people on Christmas Eve.
Today, the short messages of blessings on the mobile phone have never stopped. There is a "Christmas dinner" menu at the door of the fashionable restaurant on the street. I remember someone jokingly said that Christmas is now a pagan festival, and their idols worship. It's Santa. This is also good. More festivals will have more meanings, even if the original meaning is lost. On the contrary, I am indifferent and confused about this festival, standing above the borders of Chu, Han, and Han, and do not belong to any side. For all the short messages wishing happiness, I repeat the word "peace", which is the atmosphere that I personally think Christmas Eve should have.
When I was younger, there was a translated version of "Thorn Birds" on TV, but I didn't watch it all, but at the end, the sickly but noble priest said to the twilight beauty: I saw that you were against God all your life, but You are closer to his will than I am, because in the end, you have always been in love, even if you lost everything, you have never lost love... These words gently flowed into the depths of my heart, when I was still ignorant, I suddenly fell in love with Religion, another understanding of God that is different from what the textbooks say, is a gentle and divine touch.
I have been a sensitive person since I was a child, and materialism is practical and vulgar to me. I studied Jurisprudence in college, I read Plato's world of ideas, Augustine's "City of God", and many other philosophical related issues. Doubt and yearning arise. Later, I believed in the Lord, read the Bible and prayed, and joined the brothers and sisters in the school. Looking back now, I am actually a person who is willful and pursues feelings. I like the simple and elegant language style of Heheben, and I am calm and serene when praying, and it is not that I am not proud of myself for being different-just like treating all arts With knowledge, get what you need, but don't trust completely.
There are too many helpless loves in the world. There is a kind of love called divorce: the east wind is evil, the joy is weak, the sadness is full of melancholy, and it is a few years away. Sin: She belongs to this man, and this man belongs to God.
When she was a little girl, he told her the story of the bird of thorns. He told her that it inserted thorns deep into its chest and sang for the only time in her life. She asked why, and he said: The best thing is to pay the most painful price to get. A beautiful story, a prophecy.
I can fully understand this kind of thorn-bird-like obsession. Maggie is to Ralph, a strange woman is to a writer, and Lady Butterfly is to Pinkerton. This kind of love is not worth it. It can be measured if they are willing to take pain as the The honor touches the bottom of the soul. Compared with those who live shallowly and are good at calculating, luck and misfortune are self-aware.
Like Maggie, even like Ralph, the former is persistent and the latter is complicated, both are fascinating aspects of human nature.
He is a gentle and elegant man. His words and behaviors are given a certain divinity by his faith. In the wild Australian grasslands, in the childhood when little girls were not valued, he was like a lighthouse on the dark sea, gentle and firm, so he became her soul. Tie.
Richard Chamberlain is handsome and tall. At first, he only looked at Ralph's silver-haired twilight. He was already drooling. The sculptural elegance and beauty of the young priest in his eyes is difficult to settle in the end - I still habitually think of Kim Rossi-Stuart, Julien in the priest's robe in "Red and Black", so he has a Ralph feeling.
This isn't a story of an ambitious, parted man and a foolish woman in the usual sense, I see more from Ralph. It seems difficult for people who grow up from our soil to understand why a person has a deep and powerful love for the so-called God. For religion, they simply evaluate it as the spiritual sustenance of empty people. But most of the great art in European history came from the creator's almost crazy love for God. In this case, should the word "spiritual sustenance" be re-evaluated? Ralph is the god of love, and I'm sure it wasn't just ambition that led him to the altar, it was the adoration of God's holiness - a love that has a clearer and purer expression in Dane; and he loves Maggie as much as he cherishes flowers , from budding to early blooming to full blooming and even fading and withering, it is a kind and long-lasting emotion; because of this, his ambition, disappointment, and a little hypocrisy are all forgivable.
Finally, Ralph, who was dying, recalled the story of the thorn bird. He said that we knew the pain, but we still pierced the thorn into our chest. That last scene, as if the final reconciliation and forgiveness with God, as if in the story, God could not help smiling when he heard the song of the thorn birds in heaven. I was therefore confused, if God really exists, if the truth is all in the "Bible" I once read, what should I do to win God's approval and smile. The love between Ralph and Maggie may be a very serious sin for Christians, a temptation by Satan, and the defeat of the Holy Spirit to the flesh. Is it possible to be forgiven because of love, because it is close to God's will, or is it sinless from the beginning? Sodom and Gomorrah, who were destroyed by God, and those who were spurned by Paul in the book of Romans, would there not be a pair of people who truly love each other, and would there not be singing birds of thorns?
In the end, I still chose to be born from my own rationality and turned my back on the thick book that was gilded.
Those impressed by Richard Chamberlain's image of a clean and elegant cardinal should not care that he is gay these days. And literature and video are not the Bible after all, maybe I have always established my own spiritual cleanliness in bits and pieces. It has nothing to do with that Jewish religion, that carpenter's son who was born in Bethlehem before 2005.
Be true to your own heart before being true to any faith. Christmas Eve with Birds of Thorns as a feast, too.
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