If it were not for the interest in the history of the American Hmong (Oriental Jews), I would probably not have watched this movie.
The structure of the whole movie is quite ingenious. Whether it is the character's ethnic group, gender, class, religious belief, historical experience setting, the layout of the scene, or the writing of the lines, the dualism is fully expressed. This is both a lazy behavior and a mediocre behavior.
Eastwood’s ultimate goal, of course, is to propose a solution to realize the vision of an American melting pot.
Unfortunately and ridiculous, Eastwood chose to play the role of Jesus through the sacrifice of walking to the cross (take the initiative to let the Hmong gang kill himself, imitate Jesus' suffering posture when he fell, and use his own fall down To highlight the man you up he was trying to achieve, awaken his Hmong disciples, with his mission of tolerance, driving a classic car (how ridiculous and ironic! The cross became a Fordist industrial product made in the United States and representing the glory of the United States. ! Of course, whether it is a cross or a classic car, they are all products made by the empire! A symbol of the power of the empire!), leaving the closed Hmong community (the exiled Eastern Jews, do they still aspire to return to the promised land? Or is it already? Willing to dissolve itself in the foreign land of the empire?), sailing to the vast hinterland of the American empire (how is the empire established? How is the history of the empire written? In what temple is the glory of the empire pinned?). However, unlike the apostles’ efforts to make Christianity no longer confined to the specific ethnic groups of Jews and dedicated to the Christianization of the Roman Empire, Eastwood’s Hmong disciples looked forward to their own Americanization and became a male-hormone. American men who are popular with women (belief in a strong God, glorify theology). If St. Paul went from Saul to Paul, then the Hmong disciples fell from Paul to Saul.
Therefore, the problem may be classified as one of the core issues of early Christianity: the conversion of Constantine the Great. Is the conversion event led to the Christianization of the Roman Empire or the Roman imperialization of Christianity? Is religion subordinate to politics, or is politics subordinate to religion? Is it political theology or theological politics?
Starting from this, we can also see the realistic delusions and real attempts of contemporary American right-wing evangelicals: the whitening, republicanization, Foxization, imperialization, and global capitalization of Christianity.
It's just that Eastwood-can Trump really play the role of Jesus? Everything seems to run counter to the revolutionary spirit of Jesus-Paul.
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