High-energy warning, this will be a very nonsense drama review, focusing on analyzing how the characters and events in the drama are high (mo) energy (name) Qi (qi) and (miao) correspond to the interpretation of the Bible, don't take it seriously, above.
This show is built on a very big Christian theological problem - doomsday, and it's impossible to explain it, hello, so I'm going to be very biased in choosing biblical passages that make a strong point for me, and Ignore the ideas of theologians who disagree with me.
So let's talk about the word Apocalypse in the title, this word from Greek corresponds to the chapter of Revelation in the New Testament. Eschatology is not only about unlocking the seven seals, the angel gong and drum team twisted a yangko to cheer for the archangel Michael who was fighting with Satan. With the fire of the two gang leaders, the angels hugged the costumed brother The enraged Golden Bowl and the Antichrist's Lala Corps start a melee like a village woman fight in Armageddon. After Brother Di, who has the secret book, bound Satan to SM for thousands of years, the illegitimate son of Di Brother appeared again, and the final judgment kicked off. After going around in a big circle, the new heaven and new earth can be regarded as appearing. In the glorious New Jerusalem, you don’t need to pay for meals and toilet paper.
Well, this is probably the most straightforward and uninteresting (nervous) narrative of the doomsday judgment. As a neurotic (director) with a broad thinking, how can it be made into a Bible education film mode. The director chose a messed up family as an entry point to express his views on eschatology (maybe he is purely for the sake of the foundation, no). The reason why the director chose a family as the narrative point of view is that the budget is limited and the brain is too big... This family corresponds to the necessary and sufficient condition of the 'chosen nation' in the Bible, and the chosen one is saved and entered. The bunker (to become the Messianic kingdom), the chosen ones are the Lord's crusaders, they are God's crusaders. But please note that these lucky ones are not flawless little white lambs, and the exegesis believes that the 'chosen people' must have 'guilt-free' in their self-consciousness. This sense of innocence is subjective, such as the shooting of an innocent driver in the last episode of Rhonda, the killing of Arnold and Scotty for 'righteousness', they think the killing is for a 'higher' purpose, this 'higher' ' Endowed them with innocence,
The eschatology described above was circulated in the Middle Ages when ordinary people with a low level of education could only understand oral stories of gods and monsters, and now between some ignorant and deceitful women and uncles who are easily brainwashed. After more than a thousand years of debating the scriptures, there are several mainstream versions of eschatology. The first is personal eschatology.
The personal eschatology is embodied in the innocent people who are killed without the halo of pig's feet in this play. In the horrific process of known death (the comet hitting the Earth) and looming death, the director created a cast of men and women to highlight his mockery of the modern outlook on life and death. The narcissism complex of modern people points everything to itself, and the end of the self (destruction of the body) means that everything will end. The ability to perceive human beings is blocked by their own anxiety and fear of death. That's why when the play declares that the earth will die and human beings will become extinct, all kinds of extreme performance disorders are caused by smashing, looting, and burning.
At the same time, modern people's eschatological view is also reflected in Rhonda's dying husband, especially in the last episode when he decides to sacrifice himself and drive a truck into the door to save others, the people around him, except Rhonda's Besides, not even his dear stepson expressed any objection. Why is this? Health is the number one consideration in the modern view of life that is meaningful only if one can accomplish one's own purposes. Those who can't survive in a society that emphasizes performance and competition are pushed to the edge and out. Therefore, Rhonda's husband, as a seriously ill person, has been branded as death by others. Anyone who has a clear understanding of death will surely retain the love of life, and respect the life of himself and others. Regrettably, regardless of the self-sacrificing spirit shown by Rhonda's husband, just talking about the expressions that others agree with, it can be predicted that Scotty's husband, Rhonda's son, the Nazi girl, and that aunt with bangs do not have the ability to have a future world after the second trial. qualifications.
Next, let’s talk about the second kind of eschatology—the eschatology of history. This is about Ariel (don't worry, there will be a paragraph about his brotherhood and feud with jamie) Ariel is a real representative of human history, hello, his egocentricism, the destructiveness of the exclusion of others Consequences (passer A who was killed by him and jamie who was abused by him for many years). Ariel's behavior is universal. From a historical point of view, those who have power must understand the future as a continuation of the present, and will not stop pursuing the promotion of power. Ariel has absolute power over jamie's behavior, and in brotherhood, he is at the top of life, which is why Ariel is so worried about the destruction of the world, he must continue his history of controlling jamie, even if it's just wishful thinking . For others, Ariel is the 'beast from the bottomless pit' and the harlot of Babylon mentioned in the Bible. He is the big dragon with claws and claws in the thirteenth chapter of Revelation. It is no exaggeration to say that Ariel is in The play takes on the unglamorous role of the Roman Empire in persecuting Christians in history.
Ariel's morbid psyche is understandable if what Ariel did to jamie was a Messianic experiment for himself. Ariel has long lived in the shadow of his biological mother's madness about Jamie being the Son of God, and he is bound by past memories. For him, in order to eliminate the influence of jamie, he must intervene in jamie's life. This experiment is far-reaching and unprecedented for jamie. If it is enlarged, this experiment can be understood as the end of history. How to understand this, for example, life is an experiment means that in the torment of jamie, Ariel is redesigning it again and again in view of the changing situation, he is constantly correcting his means to jamie to a certain degree of 'perfection' '. But as an experiment, everything is in flux, nothing is absolute, Ariel pays the price, he loses Layla's love, Ariel tries to learn from wrong trials, but he doesn't get it, Armageddon is not The experiment, no one could survive.
The next paragraph to be said is very thunderous, high-energy warning. Marx said that the history of all societies up to now is a history of class struggle. According to Orwell, the history of mankind has merged into a super 'big machine' that can calculate and control everything, and mankind has become the cog of the machine. During Ariel's early relationship with jamie, Ariel took control of the machine and jamie's life revolved around the cogs designed by Ariel. Based on such a roundabout and unreliable argument, I take Ariel as a representative of eschatology.
Let's talk about the end of the universe represented by jamie. In the book of He Nuo it is said: 'The earth will be smashed to pieces, everything on earth will die, and the judgment of everything will begin. ''The Son of Man' will come, the throne of God will be revealed, and the heavens and the earth will be recreated. The Gospel of Matthew says: 'The stars will fall from the sky, and the power of the heavens will shake'.
Doomsday theories about the destruction of the world and the new creation come from a very old stalk - the Noah's Ark stalk. It is said that God regretted creating man, and he turned the will of creation into the driving force of destruction. He came to flood the Jinshan Temple (sorry for the wrong theater), and Noah's family was saved in the great flood. Because Noah is a great silver, there should be applause below. . Doomsday theory unintentionally exposes God’s little secrets. First, the omniscient and almighty God exists because of himself, not because of other factors. Second, although the world he built exists, it does not have to exist. The world itself can also exist. It doesn't exist, is this a god horse? This is the truth of the lottery world - contingency!
Jamie's life is hard for most of the time, trapped in Ariel's way of seeing the world is terrifying, but behind all the terrifying destruction will rise the beginning of creation. To use the biblical analogy again, jamie's suffering is a perfect answer to the theme of 'end-time labor pains'. The birth of a child is linked to the mother's labor pains, and the world must be destroyed so that it can be saved. Remember the part where jamie and dave helped the girl deliver the baby? In the midst of the destruction of the world, there is still hope in Jamie's life, and this hope is not just based on optimism. It's interesting that before the finale, jamie doesn't have a particularly clear lineup about God or the existence of God, but his behavior caters to God's expectations for humans. In the midst of unavoidable disasters, jamie showed a spirit of resistance and enduring hope, which is evident from his never giving up his love for Layla.
The hope of the end is not to blindly accept the mercy of fate, but to stand up in failure. Think of what jamie has done to find Layla, his efforts to unlock the veil of fate, twin brother, crazy mother, horny father father, daughter who loves prosthetics and giraffes... jamie is at the helm of the ark connect the stories together. If Ariel's negative actions forced God to have a positive result, that creation requires chaos, then God's actions are reflected in jamie.
In the last episode of jamie's prayers or orders, the story has become a religious allegory. The classic meme of Moses leaving the Red Sea is vividly displayed by jamie holding a baby and holding a prosthetic leg as a walking stick. Some people say that since it is the final judgment of the universe, why did Jamie not enter the bunker? Isn't he the illegitimate son of God? Hey...this is still a theological mystery, hey hey. That's right, the early church believed that in the final battle between Christ and the Antichrist, Jesus will triumph in the cross and resurrection, but the doomsday theory is based on battle, defeat, resurrection, victory, and battle again. in cycle. The beast (Ariel) from the abyss will rise again, and the final battle between Gog and Magog will still be required.
In the vision that Christianity looks forward to, Armageddon is bound to be Armageddon, a messianic dispatch, a devastating catastrophe, and the resurrection of the final resurrection. Even the buddy who was nailed to the rack needs to be recreated through death and judgment, and he is equal to the universe.
Therefore, as the son of God Jamie who performed miracles, he must and had to be blocked from the bunker. Only by experiencing fear can we hope for the coming of God. Without fear, there is no hope. Fear of death wakes people up and keeps them alert. It can be said that fear is the opposite of hope. The presence of jamie, the representative of doomsday, ensures the Christian doctrine of hope. This is a little difficult to explain. First of all, Christianity believes that there is peace, but in fact there is no peace (Jeremiah, don’t ask me which paragraph, the brain capacity is limited...) The concept of peace is nothing but a false prophet of optimism. No one, including God, can guarantee us that disaster will not come. In view of the fact that all living things cannot avoid death, which is also an unconditional affirmation of life, we return to Brother Luther's mouth-twisting apple tree metaphor - if tomorrow will be destroyed , he will still plant apple trees.
In this show, jamie is the one who planted the tree, only a few minutes away from destruction, and he still chooses to help Rhonda's husband (it can be said that this has a selfish side, but dave and his adoptive mother and even his wife choose to hide In the bunker, you could say they trust jamie, but at the same time self-preservation probably dominates).
Regarding the Last Judgment, it is easy to conjure up religious scenes. For example, on the right is the righteous who will ascend to heaven, and on the left is the sinner who will be cast into the underworld. Jesus is sitting in the middle with two swords in his mouth, either life or death . This medieval doctrine is called the poison of God. Fortunately, the screenwriter of this play is not a person who lives in the Middle Ages. He did not do a simple double ending of addition and subtraction of going to heaven and hell. Instead, he often shocked me and conditionally used the theory of full amnesty (enough) , flower arrangement, the theory of full forgiveness also coincides with jamie being trapped outside the bunker (like Christ on the cross, and God his dad pretended not to see this, hello)
The final judgment is probably the favorite topic of scholars, they Always like to explore the outcome of the Last Judgment. Is it true that believers go to heaven and unbelievers go to hell? Or is everything redeemable and everything redeemed? The ending of the film apparently chose the latter. If the grandmother who kills and steals goods and Rhonda, who incarnates the Amazon female warrior in the last episode, stay in the double ending option, it must be a good material for hell. ps Instead, it was the Nazi woman who did justice to the gay and black buddies at the last moment. In view of this, it can be said that her kind deeds redeemed her conscience at the last moment, and she can go to heaven. pps, so you can do bad things all your life, but you must remember to do good things before you die, and write off the past (nonsense)
whether it is a double ending or a full pardon, there is an invincible bullshit involved in this. topic - the nature of God. How can a God-loving creature curse those wicked and sinful creatures? And he is the creator of creation. This is bound to lead to what the apostle Paul called in the Gospels 'righteousness for justice and salvation'. Then the question arises again, what is the ultimate purpose of the final judgment? If the Last Judgment is God's reckoning of sinners and saints, then the Day of Judgment is the 'end' of the world.
As mentioned above, the screenwriter's choice of full amnesty is shocking, what about woolen yarn? Most church theologians sneered at this point of view and even pierced the proposition and advocate of the theory that the villain cursed every day. The reason is very simple, you can't ruin the jobs of our priests, if everyone believes that no matter what they do, they will be saved, then let us drink the northwest wind? Our church teaches believers to behave well and eat carefully. On the day of judgment, Jesus will definitely prepare Peking duck for you. Feed it.
Because the Bible does not speak out about the doctrine of total forgiveness, but instead repeatedly mentions the double outcome of judgment, the doctrine of total forgiveness has been a false theory for many years, and has been regarded by the church as a denial of judgment. The theory of full amnesty and the theory of double endings are not acceptable. One side says that if we are all saved, why should we strive to live a life of goodness and righteousness? Does preaching the gospel make sense? On the other hand, if only a small number of people are saved, what is God's purpose in creating man? Do you strangle to death if you don't like it? If the outcome depends on man's faith and justice, then doesn't God's judgment depend on man's free will? With free will, why don't we believe in materialism?
In a word, the public is right and the mother is right. Both of these viewpoints can be found in the Bible, and the right and left fight is also very Zhou Botong. In view of this, we can only take a priori and forcefully believe that the Bible does not contradict itself. , there is no such illogical and purely brain-damaged remarks as mistakes, and can only barely strengthen the dispute between the two factions.
First of all, the curse in the double ending is real, but it is not eternal, and the fire of hell is not a real bbq skewer, but an educational punishment. In pardon, God wants to help everyone, but does everyone want God's help? God's redemption speaks of a possibility, not an actual act of redemption, which is possible only on the basis of human belief. The differences between the two factions on the relationship between God's decision and human's decision are not unresolved, and Jamie's behavioral model is simply a weapon to merge these two views. First of all, his actions depend on each of his own choices, but in his choice, God is also involved in the whole process. God designed the succession of events to make these seemingly coincidental events full of connections, and these events prompted jamie to accept himself. , He grew from a submissive clerk to a man with determination and full of human strength. Jamie accepted the savior in his heart with his actions. Jamie does not need to fast and recite Buddha every day in exchange for salvation. In fact, if God and human beings are placed on the same scale, and God's grace and human judgment are placed on the same level, eschatology is full of cheap salesman temperament .
The topic goes back to the fact that jamie is kept out of the bunker, everyone knows that Jesus went through hell, and this experience means 'if I stay in hell, you are there' (verse) The hell of Christ (jamie) This trip is to express that Christ suffered in hell for us, and the gods and horses said so. According to the arrangement in the play, only those who enter the bunker may have a chance of survival, and those who did not enter, including Jamie, belong to those who have died on one foot. Christ (jamie) had to experience for himself this kind of life and death, and it is only through the hell walk that Christ is truly trinity with the Father, because he is totally obedient and seeks the Father where he cannot be found.
Christ 'seeks' the lost and brings them home, making himself lost. I believe that if there is a second season, jamie will also experience a Christ-like sacrifice and torture.
After Hu wrote the gist of the play (as I thought), let's talk about the symbolic meaning of the main characters.
Let's talk about the twins Jamie/Ariel first: until the last episode, I firmly believed that they were Abel/Cain. First of all, the word Cain originally meant artisan, and Ariel, a computer hacker, was often in line with the modernity of artisans. meaning. And Abel is a dutiful shepherd. Jamie, a bank clerk, abides by the law and is definitely worthy of the title of a contemporary righteous man. In their relationship, the mad mother replaced God, and Ariel, who was not favored by her mother, became jealous, and then began a century-old drama of cannibalism. Ariel's image of Cain continues throughout, until it's jamie that changes, from Abel-Noah, Noah-Moses, and finally Moses-Christ in this staggering triple jump.
In the flower arrangement sentence, in the last episode, the doctor said to the evil grandma, we don't have enough food rations, what should we do if there are too many people in the bunker... I almost screamed at the screen to save jamie! He can make five loaves and two fish! (I’m sick of my brain) When I
think about it, Jamie fits Jesus’ setting. They were all inactive before 30, and the women around them were regarded as frivolous (the missing wife, Mary of Mordala), and they didn’t have to die. Yes, but Judas (Ariel) pushed it to the cross, and in the end they were all abandoned by God in the wilderness (enough). As for whether Jamie is the Son of God or not, it will be revealed in the next season, if there is one. The two events of Divine Language and Splitting the Red Sea have proved that the play has set the prerequisite for the existence of God. Since God exists, it is reasonable for him to have a son (God logic).
The role of Sister Celine is not very interesting, hey, as God's wife, she broke her vows and got together with dad jamie. Daddy is suave and suave, and he keeps seeds everywhere. He looks like King David. If Daddy is King David, then Sister Celine is Pushsheba. Inferring that, Sister Celine is carrying King Solomon in her stomach, that's enough. I don't want to analyze Daddy Jamie's Vatican Church line, in a nutshell, a bunch of Antichrist's lackeys have something to say.
Frankie is a quirky little girl who can listen to the words of angels and understand all kinds of images, which reminds people of Daniel who is also smart and clever. Given that Brother Di often visits her, she will not die easily, hello.
The only character I can't find a counterpart to in this show is Rhonda, and in a way, she's had a few transformations that I don't know how to write about. She is from - weak and frightened - determined and brave - murder is like nothing, I don't know what the screenwriter wants to show, how does a person who is normally considered a good person go to a dark road due to abnormal events? The scene where she shot an innocent truck driver completely lost my ego and conscience. Watching her gave me a sense of fear. Her righteousness about injustice, her random trampling on other people's lives, made me reconsider this. The character, perhaps, I misjudged her from the start.
In order to allow her son to escape from the law, she voluntarily gave up, whether it was out of maternal love or other, this was the result of her self-willed choice. But in every episode, she emphasizes that she did not break the law, and the theory of innocence is her usual explanatory language. Could it be said that the top package is not illegal? Isn't it illegal to shelter criminals? Shelter for whatever purpose. Maternal love, or all love in the world, is subject to justice, whether it is the law of the world or the law of God. Love is not an excuse to escape injustice, Rhonda steals the concept of justice and motherhood in several episodes, she is not doing good deeds, but doing evil in the name of good.
After that, her various chain behaviors caused by self-protection are easy to explain. I want to be with my husband and son at the end of the world, not for pointing a gun at others. Her rescue of the Nazi woman is like a carefully wrapped antichrist candy. The Nazi woman is kind to her, so she wants to help her, even if it causes her brother's injury and the death of an innocent prison guard. When she pulled out the gun, she knew the consequences, but she made the choice for her personal desires. This is not Christlike redemption of others, but an arrogant satanic act of putting oneself in God's perspective.
The scene of shooting the truck driver made me realize that the Antichrist is lurking around us, no matter what disguise they use, when fear comes, and judgment day is approaching, they will eventually reveal their true nature and become someone else's in order to prolong their own lives. hell. To this extent, I think Rhonda may be the personification of the serpent, who bewitches the world to make wrong choices in the name of family and love. But having said that, even in the far and perfect Garden of Eden, the serpent is still entrenched in the tree of wisdom, waiting for an opportunity, and it is not surprising that Satan is infiltrated in the bunker.
If there is a second season, I would love to see how the writers deal with the imagery of Jerusalem on the ground and in the sky. As for the Crystal Palace and the Garden City, they probably won't appear. If the city of God comes, then make up a woolen story, stop... ...
Anyway, this is really a drama review full of nonsense, maybe not even a drama review at all...
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