Heresy has always been the norm

Can't remember how long ago was the last time I saw Buñuel. Looking at him again, I once again learned the skill of taking absurd and unreasonable scenes with great seriousness... This film shows the major theological debates in Christian history with vivid methods and seriousness. (The word card at the end of the film tells us that all dialogues have a textual source), and tells us that the existence of so-called heresy (hérésie) is actually the norm in the history of religion: there is always a competition of opinions, and finally one is defined as a dogma ( dogme), the rest becomes heresy, and the process is often accompanied by violence... The reason is that the most mysterious part of belief itself cannot be explained. If there are not so many contradictions and ambiguities in the scriptures, I am afraid It can't be passed down like this... The audience does not have to be familiar with the controversy about the Trinity and Jansen's understanding of grace, but also can feel the incomprehension of the controversy and understand the fun in it. Seeing these now seem almost It's the contrast between a purely rhetorical controversy and its often painful historical cost...

As a movie released in 1969, it actually contains a side response of Buñuel to the May 1968 storm (there is a scene where a group of anarchist youths holding red and black flags parade through the streets and then put the The scene of the Pope's shooting seems to pull us back to the background of 1968): When the Marxist orthodoxy represented by the French Communist Party was challenged by various radical forces, the stories of various heretical sects in the history of Christianity were all at once. Contemporary Echo. In 1967, Buñuel had a bottleneck period in filming ("Beauty in the Day"), and for a time he didn't want to make any more. According to Jean-Claude Carrière, Buñuel saw Godard's "The Chinese Girl" at the Venice Film Festival in 1967 and was shocked. He thought that if Godard could make this thing, then he could also make this about Christianity. A heretical movie... From then on, he began to completely break the narrative continuity and completely unreasonable. (His subsequent films are also getting better and better! "Beauty in the Day" has a surrealist boilerplate feel, lacking a little creativity...)