Fearlessness and awe, from Lake Baikal to Harbin

Kelsie 2022-01-24 08:04:59

I actually hesitate to recommend this movie. Because there are at least two kinds of troubles, it is difficult for me to decide. The first is the love story that runs through the film. This love actually does not conform to the traditional Christian ethics. The second is that the movie is very, very heavy, from the sunny day to the winter and snowy night, until the hero is shot and killed, until the heroine grows old alone. I don't want to add obstacles to everyone in the days when we celebrate the victory of Christ. But in the end I decided to recommend it to everyone, mainly for two more important reasons. First, the film’s record of love is honest and can cure hypocrisy with Chinese (church) characteristics. Second, this film is really classic, allowing us to understand the Orthodox Church and its history related to China from a new perspective.

I love this film more than any other film. Not only is the photography beautiful, but I lament the honest memory of the tragedy in the movie. From a human point of view, our Lord Jesus Christ is a tragedy on earth, even though the final resurrection completely subverted all of this. Dai Desheng said that the preacher is a scaffolding. After the house is built, the jealous will be pulled out and beheaded to show the public, or stepped on to the next level. Kolchak is a tragic hero, but not a tragedy in a secular sense. In other words, his life was not a tragedy at all: he gave his life for his ideals and beliefs. The biggest tragedy in life is that you live elsewhere, so that you are at a dead end. From the Virgin of Kazan to the icon of Job, these props have revealed the trajectory of Kolchak's life: God blessed him, but in the end he will be sent into suffering and death just like Job, until the eternal resurrection.

What moved me in particular was the continuous eastward movement on the Siberian Railway. This is a train of destiny. We know that this train leads to death and martyrdom, but we can't stop it with our hands. This is a mission that must be born to death. This reminds me of what the Lord Jesus said to Peter: "I tell you the truth, when you were young, you put your belt on yourself and walked around at will, but when you are old, you have to stretch out your hand and others will bind you. Go up and take you where you don’t want to go" (John 21:18). God has bound us as a living sacrifice, and struggle and resistance are ineffective. On the contrary, you have to obey and go with joy. The Bible also records another famous event of consignment of sacrifices: "They went to the place indicated by God, and Abraham built an altar there, arranged the wood, bound his son Isaac, and put it on the wood on the altar" (Genesis 22: 9). And it’s hard for us to understand this sacrificial journey on our own, unless we continue to trust the promise on the road: "Abraham named the place Jehovah El (meaning Jehovah will prepare). Even today, people still say, There will be preparations on the mountain of the Lord" (Genesis 22:14).

A train bound for the Far East, love and faith fell to the ground in a row of bullets, or set off.

Love without ending bears witness to a kind of religious awe, perhaps God’s goodwill or love is the way it is. This train is coming to me, more than 5,000 kilometers, the destination is Lake Baikal and Irkutsk. To the east is my hometown. Of course, this is completely outside the personal imagination. I saw myself standing up from where Kolchak had fallen, and seeing the train continuing to the east. The glacier began to shatter, until the Sophia Cathedral in Halbing. Harbin Architecture Art Museum is selling tickets. I prayed silently among the crowd, and sighed to the sky. The flock of pigeons revolved and landed thousands of miles in the sky, and I heard a voice sounding: The kingdom of heaven is near, you should repent. Then my dearest relatives dug out the warm bullet from Kolchak's corpse and shot from behind me. A thistle flower, very beautiful, very beautiful, spreading its wings and soaring.

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