-Li Cangdong's movie "Miyang"
Shi Hengtan
Li Cangdong's movie "Miyang" has stung many people and annoyed many people. This is a movie about the Christian life. Believers think that it has taken faith to blaspheme Christianity; unbelievers are gloating, or even more convinced of their unbelief: everything is a lie, where is there a God!
Regardless of the ideological and artistic value of this film, I think it is at least true. What the film reflects is the true state of humanity and the true life of faith. For people who believe in Christianity and believe in Christianity, people always look at them from a high and low perspective. Some people complained of disdain from a distance, and some people approached and pierced their noses and eyes. In fact, there is panic in disdain, and being picky is often due to high expectations. What does this show? It shows people's unbelief and shallow belief.
What is faith? Belief is an inherent inversion, a change of habit, a reincarnation and a new life. What is the biggest obstacle to accepting faith? It is the ego, the self-centered concept and consciousness; and what is the most stubborn and strongest of the ego? It is human pride.
"Miyang" tells a story of pride being shattered, including its shocking process and terrible consequences.
Li Shenai is an extremely proud person. This kind of pride is in the bones, and it will naturally be expressed through her every move. Proud people are people who live in the world they have constructed, and they are self-righteous people. Of course, the way in which everyone expresses pride may be different, and the capital that everyone is proud of is also different. Facing the remote Miryang, Li Shin-ae from Seoul, the capital, naturally has enough pride and capital. Moreover, she is also a top student of the Seoul Conservatory of Music. Therefore, she is confident that she can find spiritual comfort here and seek career development. The condescending attitude towards Miyang people has been revealed from the very beginning. When she first entered the clothing store, she felt that the decoration was old-fashioned and the lighting was not good. She suggested that the owner remodel it, so that the old lady was inexplicable and did not know how to deal with it. She is even more arrogant to Jin Zongcan, the owner of the car repair shop who loves her to pursue her, and dismisses him at will. Jin Zongcan followed and followed her, busying herself with her. She took it for granted and took it for granted, but she did not give him a little encouraging response, and she never even had a good color. Even her love for her husband is mainly out of wishful thinking and fiction, rather than true fusion and love. Her younger brother once kindly advised: "In fact, there is no need for my sister to live like this. My brother-in-law died for other women..." But not only did she not believe it, she also angrily prevented her brother from continuing to speak, and asked him to quickly Go back home. After the death of her husband, she resolutely decided to leave the capital to settle in Miryang, the hometown of her husband, and set up a piano academy. This was also out of pride. This is not a natural expression of love for your husband, but to show others your love for your husband. Her husband is not worthy of her love, but she has to use this way to exaggerate her love. It is definitely not her Li Shenai who doesn't do anything ruthless.
Pride did not give her everything she wanted, but became the source of her tragedy. In fact, her husband's death should also have something to do with her pride. We won't go into this further. Because of her pride, she put on a posture of wealth and wealth, saying everywhere that she wanted to buy real estate and open a piano academy. She had no precautions, but she didn't know that this was simply tempting greed and giving birth to evil. Just when she was engaged in public relations and celebrating her success, her beloved Jun'er was kidnapped by criminals. Leaving a six or seven-year-old child alone at home for so long, in itself shows that her maternal love is very problematic. After the incident, she first did not call the police for help, but took the money to deal with it by herself. This was also out of pride, she thought she could handle it. When putting money into the designated trash can, she thought she cleverly took out a lot. After failing the first contest with the criminal, she wanted to seek help from Jin Zongcan, but when she saw him singing alone there sadly and painfully, she turned and left again, not knowing whether she was contemptuous of him or afraid to provoke him. Can't get rid of it. In this way, she missed the best time to rescue her son, and when she finally called the police, her son was buried in the reservoir. The death of her son did not destroy her pride. She was also proud of the way she treated her son's death. She avoided the criminal who had been captured—the son's teacher. This was a kind of pride at work, and she hadn't figured out how to deal with him yet. The son's grandmother and other relatives were so painful that she cried into tears, but she didn't say a word, dumbfounded, and did not respond to the accusations of her relatives. She may be disdainful or unwilling to express her despair and sorrow in such an unusual and ordinary way.
One can insist on being proud, but one cannot resist despair and sorrow. When she was crumbling with grief, the great love of God that she had repeatedly rejected in her pride came to her again. It was the singing of praise from the church-"Now in Love", she couldn't help running towards the beauty. The place where music comes from. "Lord, I have been favored because you have accepted me. Now you are your son and daughter in love. You save me and comfort me, you hear my heart cry,..." She finally couldn't help but let out a heartbreaking heart. Weeping and yelling. This is her giving up human pride and sincerely surrendering to God. "I will always praise your holy name and dedicate my life to you." She received comfort and release from God, and her life changed a lot. What I didn’t understand before, now I understand. The wife of the pastor who opened the drugstore once said to her: "In every ray of sunshine, there is the will of God." But at the time she couldn't figure it out: "Isn't there any, this is sunshine!" Now, she bears it. She couldn't help sharing these words with every friend of her, she was also preaching the gospel. She saw the criminal's daughter being bullied by the ground ruffian, and she couldn't bear it. Then, she had the idea of going to the prison to visit and telling him that she had forgiven.
All these are real changes and real feelings of people. If there is no accident that she thinks, the ending may be perfect and very moving. But life always deviates from people's imagination and design, and poses new problems for them. When Shin Ae brought the wild flowers into the prison with excitement and said something that moved him, the prisoner calmly told her: Since entering the prison, under the influence of his mother, he has also believed in God, he Believing that God has forgiven his sins, he is still praying for the mother of the dead child every day. This scene once again made her extremely shocked and angry. She froze there suddenly: "I am so sad, but the man said that he has been forgiven and redeemed by God." "I haven't said forgiveness, how can God be in me? Have you forgiven him before?" She fainted in the sun as soon as she got out of the prison, and the wild flower that she personally picked to give to the prisoner also fell on the ground. After returning, she changed from extreme gratitude to God to extreme hatred of God, and this hatred was manifested through a series of hysterical and reckless actions. She clapped and slapped the table in the church to interfere with the order, so that the believers could not pray; she stole the CD in the audio-visual store, refused to admit it, and ran into the clerk; It’s fake") to replace the pastor’s hymns when praying, destroying the preaching meeting; what’s more, she seduced the pastor and took him to the wilderness to commit adultery, and said in a pretentious manner: "Look clearly Now." She also threw stones at the homes of believers who gathered late at night to pray for her...
Why is this happening? Why is there such a big reversal? Is the belief itself false or her own belief not true? Does faith have nothing to do with her at this time? Doesn't it work? This is exactly what Li Cangdong wants to ask the church and society through her. In fact, the crux of the problem is still pride. If before believing in God, her pride is rational pride, emotional pride, and worldly power pride, then after believing in God, her pride is moral pride, spiritual pride, and spiritual power pride. If everything she did before was to show how deeply she loves her husband, then what she has to show in front of everyone is how tolerant she is to criminals. Although her spiritual identity is different, her inner mirror image has not changed. She still arranges her life completely according to her own wishes and methods. Although believers and pastors have repeatedly advised her not to forgive in this way rashly, she was convinced of her ability and insisted on doing her own way, and the result was defeated. In fact, this is not God's cruelty, but God's justice. God has long seen through her pride, and what God wants to deal with is her pride. The worldly pride is gone, and the spiritual pride comes up again. A person may hide it deeply, even he himself does not know that he is covering up, he still believes that he is sincere, but everything is hidden from the Almighty and All-Knowing God. God will use events to reveal our nature, and God will use repeated blows to refine us. "God, you have tested us and refined us like silver." (Psalm 66:10) "The cauldron is for silver, and the furnace is for gold. Only the Lord refines the heart." (Proverbs 17 : 3)
So, does God have the right to forgive criminals before forgiving? Should we forgive this way? The answer to the first question is yes, so the second question is also taken for granted. God has the authority to forgive and not forgive any of us, because each of us owes God, and God owes no one of us. "The world has sinned and is short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) God forgives and forgives our sins because of his love and compassion, and what we should cherish for God is endless grateful. As for us and those who hurt us, it's just the difference between fifty steps and a hundred steps. And Shin-ae’s attitude towards prisoners is like the attitude of the servant who owed her master ten thousand taels in the Gospel of Matthew to those who owed her ten taels of silver. She forgot that the master had waived her ten thousand taels of silver. The debt, but grabbed the neck of the man who owed her ten taels of silver. She wants to be the first for herself, and she must not give up this sovereignty of forgiveness. Of course, it is not easy for someone who has been hurt to turn this corner. Shen Ai also has the right to ask questions, argue with God, and even compete with God, but in the end, she should be humbled like Job, acknowledge God's sovereignty, and obey God's will; or be as cautious as David: "O Jehovah, My heart is not arrogant, and my eyes are not high. I dare not do important and unfathomable things.” (Psalm 131:1) God is God, and he has the authority to act according to himself without asking our opinions. Acting consciously, God doesn’t need to make us understand what he does. "Deep! God's rich wisdom and knowledge. How unpredictable is his judgment, how hard is his trace, how hard to find! Who knows the heart of the Lord? Who has been his counselor?" (Romans 11:33 -34)
Of course, there is a problem here is the attitude of the prisoner. He was too calm. True confession should not be like this. Although we have received God's forgiveness, we should also be forgiven by people. Jesus taught: “So when you offer a gift on the altar, if you remember that your brother is grieving against you, leave the gift in front of the altar, reconcile with your brother first, and then come and offer the gift. On the road, hurry up and settle with him. I am afraid that he will send you to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the servants, and you will be put in prison. I tell you the truth, if you have not paid the penny, you can never get from there. Come out." (Matthew 5:23-26)
Afterwards, Shen Ai always used her own way to resist God and vent her resentment towards God. Her slashing suicide was also directed at God, so she said to the sky: "See it! See it!" Of course God saw it. , However, God did not fight her, God still pityed her and saved her life. She finally asked for help, which was still bowing her head to God. Finally, Jin Zongcan picked her up from the hospital and went to the barbershop for a haircut. By coincidence, she was given a haircut by the daughter of the prisoner who had become a hair salon girl. So Shen Ai suddenly stopped cutting out of the shop. Fortunately, she encountered clothing again. The shop owner, she finally accepted Shen Ai's suggestion and redecorated the store, which gave Shen Ai some comfort. The scene at the end of the film is: Shen Ai sits in the sun and asks Jin Zongcan to cut her half-cut hair. The strands of hair fall off and are blown to the mud by the breeze, shaking gently... This scene is meaningful: She walked to the crossroad again, is she willing to accept God's brilliant sun spread all over the earth? Or continue to curl up in the dark corners woven in your heart?
The panic caused by "Miyang" revealed people's misunderstandings and misunderstandings about the Christian faith and belief life. In fact, Christianity is not a cheap gospel, and God is not a Santa Claus full of candy. Not as soon as you believe in God, everything will be fine and everything will be fine. In the course of faith, there are still traps and whirlpools; temptations and temptations; struggles and confusions. Pastors are also human beings, they also have weaknesses, and they also make mistakes. Believers are more likely to fall down and fail because they don’t understand God’s will and don’t know themselves well. Among the weaknesses of human nature, the most difficult thing to deal with is pride; in the life of faith, what is needed most is sincerity. We must recognize who we are, neither arrogantly underestimating ourselves, nor bluffing, let alone walking in front of and outside God. "However, wherever we are, we should walk according to what we are." (Philippians 3:16) No matter where we fall, God is still willing to welcome back with open arms, as long as we truly repent and confess. He is our Lord. "The sacrifice that God requires is a sorrowful spirit. God, you will not despise a sorrowful and contrite heart." (Psalm 51:17)
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