Sure enough, Li Cangdong said that after watching this film, people who do not believe in Christ will definitely think this is an anti-Christian film, and Christians will definitely feel uncomfortable watching it. Li Cangdong’s answer in the interview was very clever. Of course, the position of Minister of Culture of South Korea made him afraid that his answer would be used more as a political explanation. In fact, to say that this film has nothing to do with religion is absolutely nonsense.
Li Shenai died and her husband took his son to Miyang, the birthplace of her husband. However, unexpectedly, her son was kidnapped and the corpse was thrown into the river. The murderer was the son's teacher. After experiencing the greatest pain in her life, she was preached the gospel by a local Christian. After that, she found comfort and peace in her religious beliefs. At this moment, she made a decision to go to prison to forgive the murderer in order to promote the love and gospel of God, but what she didn't expect was that although the murderer was in the prison, he was very radiant. It turns out that he also believed in the prison. And got the forgiveness of God. This caused Li Shenai to be hit hard, and the faith he had built up finally collapsed. After that, she made all kinds of strange walks to challenge the existence of God.
I think the most ingenious thing about this film is that it exposes the most controversial atonement loophole in Christian doctrine to the greatest extent.
Li Shen loves to believe in God, so she feels that she must "love her enemy as she loves herself", so she chooses to go to prison to forgive the murderer, but the problem is that this forgiveness is only one-sided, and she gets psychological through the act of forgiveness Compensation, but in fact, she didn’t think that God would forgive him, but what was it like in reality? Li Cangdong made ingenious arrangements here. This sinner also happened to believe in God, and here he entered Christianity." The concept of “justification by faith” is in Catholicism where merits are emphasized, but the “justification by faith” proposed by Martin Luther after the Reformation is different. As long as you sincerely repent to God, you can receive God’s forgiveness. The reason why Li Shenai’s faith completely collapsed was that she never thought that sinners might also believe in God, and before she forgave him, God could forgive him first. So Li Shenai questioned if the sin could be easily forgiven, then what is the meaning of the pain she has endured for a long time?
The meaning of pain is mentioned here. This is what I think Li Cangdong wants to express most in this film. Li Cangdong obviously feels that pain is meaningful. The first shot of this movie is to shoot the sky through the car window. The last shot was just the opposite, shooting the ground from above. There is no partition in between. Why is it designed like this? Li Shenai has been looking for the meaning of life. She came to her husband's hometown "Miyang" to find the meaning of life. Always looking for life and the meaning of life is the goal of all people. No one wants their life to pass without meaning. Li Cangdong believes that most people think that the greatest meaning of life lies in religion, and many people will eventually find religion at a certain point in their lives. However, what Li Cangdong wants to express more is that no matter whether God exists or not, the meaning of life is not in heaven, but in reality. Although reality itself is ugly and rough, it is the foundation of life. But the biggest problem lies here-
Li Cangdong wants to put aside religion to discuss the meaning of human suffering, but at the end of the film, he can not answer this question himself, so many people do not like this ending, I think it does not It's not that everyone wants Li Cangdong to give the answer to the question of whether God exists or not, but that it lies in the questioning of the meaning of pain.
Li Cangdong said this when he gave a lecture at the Beijing Film Academy. He said that he himself does not believe in gods, but he is religious. He said that an organization in the United States conducted a survey on religion, and his question was not directly asked you. Is there any religion, but asks if you think the pain experienced in life is meaningful, if the answer is yes, it is considered to be a religious person. If you ask him this question, he will answer yes. Because he feels that the pain he has experienced in his life is meaningful. He said that he just wanted to give the audience an answer through his film, an answer to the pain of life experience.
Unfortunately, in Miyang, we can't see this answer.
If the answer he wants to give is that after leaving religion, the pain of life will no longer have any possibility of being pinned. It has only become mere pain, an unavoidable and desperate pain itself.
"Miyang" means secret sunshine, but I prefer another interpretation of it, "places with dense sunshine", in the Bible, "Genesis" is always the most fascinating, "Let there be light", the Lord speaks loudly The underground fulfilled his will, so there was light. Light represents the beginning of life and the hope of survival, just like the sunlight that Li Shenai saw through the car window when she first came to Miryang. She said that she likes Miryang not only because it is her husband’s hometown, but also because it is a strange place. She can live a new life here and start over. The sun is cast over the shadows behind the film, but Li Shenai, who can no longer see the sun Where did she finally find the meaning of the pain she was constantly enduring.
Li Cangdong slyly avoided.
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