Is this a magical movie? Resolutely not, there is neither a miracle that makes our prophet invulnerable, nor is there a large amount of doctrine to metaphor the inevitable outcome of bad people. Throughout the story, ELI has accomplished his ideals only because of his firm beliefs. However, his tragic story will inevitably bring a more mysterious religious color to the new bible he dictated.
But that is not the shock the director wants to give you.
When everything is dead and the remaining human beings feed on humans, if God would give up humans, only humans themselves would not give up on themselves.
"God is good, is he not?"
"All the time"
Do you really think that God will come out and block the bullets for him? It was himself who helped ELI to get up, all the way to the west.
In the world of the last days, what mankind lacks is the spiritual destination and spiritual guidance. Mastering faith is the inevitable choice to become a ruler. If you replace it with the Koranic boss Carnegie, you may also replace it with Marx’s theory of capital. . . .
In fact, God will not give you water, no food, warm bed and woman. The pious prayer before the meal is to soothe the fragile and painful soul, soothe the tired spirit in hardship, so as to have strength tomorrow morning. Looking up at the vicious sunlight, summoned the courage to head towards the west where the end is unknown.
The path chosen by ELI is not to spread doctrines, but to practice beliefs, because it is an individual’s fulfillment of the meaning of life remaining in the world, thinking, searching, not salvation by God; what Carnegie wants is to control The religion of thought is a tool to enslave others. It was not that God blessed one of them, but that they themselves followed the direction they were pursuing, always having choices, but the result went in the opposite direction.
Those who do not believe in God will have eternal life, those who have not deceived the Lord will be condemned by God, the bad guys have not died in a stylized way, and God has not punished or saved anyone. Without the aura of religion, the film only expresses one message: only those with great beliefs have survived, and those with weak spirits can only survive, and the Bible, which exists as the only religion, has only assumed the role of a carrier of faith.
At the last moment, ELI gave up the Bible, because he realized that the continuation of human civilization is not relying on the Bible itself or the miracles it represents, but the humanity and wisdom that have been passed down and gathered in the words of the Bible for thousands of years-"do for others more than you do for yourself”
So, the end is that the Bible was placed on the shelf as evidence of ancient culture, and the girl who inherited the faith and will of ELI continued on a journey similar to ELI.
What is dead is religion, what is spread is faith.
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