Confucius said, "Repaying grievances by virtue, how can you repay virtue?" So he wanted to "repay virtue by virtue, and repay grievances directly." This is an obvious human law based on moral laws. That is to say, Confucius-more likely Song Confucianism, presupposed a moral law that is transcended to human beings and can exist independently. A superb goal of life is to experience it in practice and practice it. This metaphysical moral lever is the core of Zhu Zi's theory, who metaphysicalizes ethics. Many people have been pursuing this profound and mysterious moral law silently all their lives, and some people believe that it exists in our serious and hard-working ordinary life, and can be perceived through "insight", such as Wang Yangming, or as the name of the movie. Sceret Sunshine as implied.
The film is impeccable in terms of technology and performance, especially its tailoring of the plot, but the more valuable things seem to be as deep as the title. This thing may involve the secret spiritual territory of modern people. , It is more likely to involve the belief attitudes of both Eastern and Western thinking.
A simple analysis of Li Shenai’s mental journey: 1. [The unenlightened life]: After losing her husband, I decided to take the child back to her husband’s home and work hard to start a new life; 2. [The life of relying on God]: Losing the soul of his son’s religion A state of comfort; 3. [Absolutely free life] A state of madness without faith after being disappointed with God; 4. [Finding the true meaning of life] Return to the first state of life, but already has a stronger and more determined mind, which can also be said to be Found a stronger faith. (There is no frontal description in the film at this stage, but it is implied by the last shot and title).
In the eyes of Westerners, the dilemma in "Miyang" may not be a dilemma, or they may have solved the dilemma. When faith becomes a sanctuary for sinful souls, how do we understand "the Lord"?
Of course, this is an absurd question from the perspective of Western classical theology, because we only have to believe or not to believe in the Lord, and we don't have the right to "understand". This belief based on natural Quge surrender has formed a kind of lasting suspicion tension with the personality publicity of modern society. Western thought after the Enlightenment attempted to gradually devalue God to publicize human nature, but when the halo of human nature faded after the World War, God returned to the deepest part of people’s hearts. The 20th century’s chaos against God has always maintained this way anyway. The bottom line of hard work: God belongs to God, reason belongs to reason.
The situation in South Korea is more complicated. Christians, who account for 40% of the country’s population, cannot fail to reform the spiritual level of Koreans. As a typical Confucian country-and it is still the school of Confucianism, how did Koreans, especially Korean intellectuals, treat Zhuzi? Is moral reason unified with God's ultimate reality? In Marx's words, it is the question of reconciling objective idealism atheism with objective idealism theism.
Li Shenai might have encountered this kind of problem-she lost her husband. But she still has a son. When the warmth of the world has not been completely lost, she can devote all her energy to caring for the world, running a piano school, educating her son, and the death of her husband is completely an accident. But when her son was deliberately deprived by others, her soul began to torture what was going on in the world. This extreme situation provided room for maneuver in the confrontation of beliefs.
Forgiveness for the murderer is the node where all contradictions are intertwined. When she received care in God's arms and gradually healed the trauma of her heart, she had the idea of forgiving the murderer. This was originally a moral sense formed spontaneously in the heart of a kind-hearted person. Once she had this idea, she would have some kind of "holy" possibility. And here is the difference between Christianity and Zhuzi's philosophy: Christianity believes that this is the glory of God, and once people take this kind of moral feeling as their own, they are coveted; while Zhuzi believes that this is the inherent sacredness of human beings. , All can be sanctified. When Li Shenai gradually discovered a certain kind of human sacredness after suffering, she found that God had stolen it and used the name of mercy to protect the sinful soul, so she completely lost her faith.
But what she didn't understand at this time was that God was not really important, what was important was faith. God is not the same as faith. Abandon God and true faith may emerge. After she was discharged from the hospital, when she came out of the barbershop, an angry glance at the sky declared a complete break with God. And what really helped her find her faith was an ordinary, unremarkable life, including the man she had always disdained.
The subtlety of Song Kanghao is that he is willing to be such a humble old man from start to finish, and when the heroine and the audience at the end of the film, they will suddenly realize that he has always been there, waiting for us to find out.
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