Half-hearted detective

Jamey 2021-10-20 17:25:23

"Hell Detective" is a very cool movie. It only takes ten minutes and you will be deeply attracted by Levi's Cool (aftermath of "The Matrix"?) and the dark atmosphere of the movie itself. First of all, Constantine is a very fun person. Although he has something in common with ordinary superheroes, an exorcist who can walk between the world and hell, he is not a priest in the traditional sense, but rather like a priest. The deceived swinger. He is naturally distinguished between good and evil, and he knows the importance and necessity of fighting against the devil. At the beginning of the story, the Cool that imitates the "Arch Mage" can make all exorcists in the world stunned, but as the story develops, However, he found that his moral values ​​were a bit vague. He rooted out evil, but he did not necessarily use the most proper method. This made him different from the traditional way that even when facing the big evil person, he must use dignified methods. The hero who "convinces people with morality" has an essential difference, and has become a very different image.
From Constantine’s personal image, the biggest feature of "Hell Detective" is to blur the distinction between sacred and secular, noble and ordinary, because traditional exorcists and priests should be the image of a high saint, but Constantine Ding's debauchery, which is almost a bad boy, can resonate with the people of the lower classes of society. And this obscuration tendency even involves some fundamental belief issues. Because in the religious beliefs of the human world, everyone has always felt that believing in God is an absolutely correct and unquestionable act, but in fact, there has always been a view that the human world has always been good and evil, right and evil, from ancient times to the present. Power is always opposed to each other and maintains a delicate balance. Everyone chooses to do good or evil when he is alive. This determines his destiny after death. The good doer goes to heaven and the evildoer goes to hell, which is essentially A problem of attracting migrants, it seems that there are two countries that like that everyone can go to their place to settle, so the best way is to advertise and put out their own favorable conditions to attract those who are hesitant to do something that is powerful for them. In choice, both God and the devil are actually using the human soul as a bet, making a never-ending bet on who can get more foreign high-quality talents. Therefore, the reason why mankind has suffered all kinds of harassment and temptation throughout his life is actually just a boring game of gambling between gods and ghosts, and more temptations may not come from the devil, but from the God that mankind has always believed in. In this way, there is no essential difference between believing in God or believing in the devil. If people want to go to heaven, they must change their evils and return to righteousness. It has also become a kind of political enlightenment of the powerful.
This is a very bold but "life-threatening" conjecture, so we saw in the movie that Constantine started with an "anti-God and anti-human" rebellious behavior, but gradually returned to the old age of recognizing God. On the road, he finally willingly offered himself as a sacrifice to God. Such a "prodigal son turned his head" story, after all, made "Hell Detective" unable to get rid of the shackles of just a good-looking genre film, and all the sins When the black hand behind the scenes pushed onto the archangel beside God, he seemed to see the taste of some third-rate detective films.

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Constantine quotes

  • John Constantine: Close your eyes. And whatever happens, don't look.

  • John Constantine: Why me, Gabriel? It's personal, isn't it? I didn't go to church enough, I didn't pray enough, I... was five bucks short in the collection plate. Why?