about lamb and others

(Before writing the script and filming, I was thinking about "why did we make "I miss you" hhhhhh)

(About the lamb: a clever mix of imagery - lambs living in ruins and strata, inserts a story of Abraham killing his son when Dane wrote the script, and finally raises a new question, in the age of God's absence, Isaac Is it still possible to stay outside the conspiracy and be able to ask the "question that keeps humanity alive"; in a post-industrial Belgian town, with the problems of illegal immigration, underclass labor, racial discrimination and children's education, Can you still find the meaning and value of religion like that illegal African immigrant believer?)

(excerpt from some original text)

Luc Dane's diary notebook:

12/6/1992

I am writing a script. The script is tentatively set to be "The Vents" (Soupirail)

The interesting point of the film is that it shows the real life conditions of the black workers. It cannot be imagined or fabricated, because that will inevitably become a cliché.

It is necessary to design the relationship between some characters and make it a state after the intensification of reality. We have to push our resistance to aestheticism to the extreme.

12/26/1992

The new script is no longer called "The Vents," but "La Promesse."

1/20/1993

Children know nothing about conspiracy. Isaac accompanied his dad with a log on his shoulders. Possibly following him, seeing his back, with a knife in his hand... "Where is the lamb to be sacrificed?..." The co-conspirators knew, but the child did not.

God knows, he is an abettor. Abraham knew that he was an overwhelmed slave. Isaac doesn't know, and real questions can be asked, and that's the question of the innocent, the question of those who don't know the conspiracy.

Perhaps the only way to be innocent: outside the conspiracy. The innocence of Isaac's question seemed to shatter the conspiracy, as if sacrifice would not happen. Abraham felt the power of this innocent man's question, between the words of God and the child, who asked him to sacrifice the child, and the child asked him where the lamb was, and he replied, "God may find the lamb." The words imply that the sacrifice will not happen, that the sacrifice may be the conspiracy itself; it comes out of Abraham's mouth, but it is not what he meant to say, it seems that he only said it to comfort the child. Abraham could give no other answer. He didn't know the answer yet, but he had just heard the word of God and said this. God speaks for the innocent. God goes to great lengths to resolve the predicament.

Contrary to what the Bible says, the story puts the innocent into a predicament without God, to take on the enemy, and the man who devised the plot ignores his problems and will kill him. In a world without God, no one is left out of trouble, except the innocent. Alone, he continued to ask questions, to ask real questions, the questions of the continued existence of humanity as a result.

How can we "inherit" the meaning of those Bibles we read in childhood when God is not there?