The story begins with a Jewish funeral. At the grave, Lou confessed to Rabbi that ten years before his grandmother died, he thought she was dead and ignored her, not because he didn't love her, but because he couldn't stand the hospital and the breath of death. Rabbi said with a smile, we only believe in guilt, and if you want to repent, please find a priest.
Lou was shaking with fear when he said this. He had just learned that Prior, his boyfriend of four and a half years, was sick, and he was afraid that he would run away again in the face of the patient.
The sexless marriage of Mormon Joe and his wife Harper leaves Harper living in hallucinations all day long. In dreams she can go anywhere. But in fact she saw Joe everywhere, the indifferent Joe.
Two soulmates abandoned by their loved ones, Prior and Harper, meet in a dream one day. Prior told her the truth she knew, but didn't want to admit.
Then, their dreams parted ways. Harper traveled to Alaska, where she froze her emotions so that not a single Eskimo could see it. It's hard to find one, and it's still Joe, who doesn't need her Joe.
Prior was told by an angel exactly like his head nurse that he was a prophet. He climbed the ladder to the heaven abandoned by God. There he will speak his prophecies and make his choices.
Obviously all the couples have broken up, but it is a happy ending.
By the pool of the angel Bethesda, who can cleanse all diseases in the world, four old friends chat and laugh. The last decade of the twentieth century has passed, but they are no longer confused. The bright but not superficial tone is still to be praised.
Two major themes of politics and religion. As expected, he hardly understands the real politics. It can be roughly seen that the voice of the left is dominant. The right-wing Al Pacino is in power for a while, but before his death, only Meryl Streep, the ghost he killed decades ago, sings to coax him.
Religious, and only the political philosophy part understands a little, freedom, God, the United States, the hot topics that have been intertwined over the years, "Angels in America" also has its answer sheet, I repeat but I don't know how to judge.
As follows:
If the person you love and is responsible for abandons you when you need him most.
If one day after a long time he said: I still love you. do you still love me? can i come back?
You may be able to answer "yes" to the first question; be sure to answer "no" to the latter.
- "Angels in America" said. He has abandoned you in the name of freedom, and he has got what he wanted.
In the long and miserable twentieth century, human beings have long been no longer the darlings of God.
The way forward. progress. Infinite progress toward God's perfection.
However, every time I walked out of a dark cave, I fell into a more secluded abyss.
Is the sin of modernity not being humble enough?
Did we pronounce the death of God, or did he abandon us?
If it is the latter, should it be frozen in place, waiting for God to return?
But don't want to move forward, don't want to struggle, is it still life?
If progress is an inevitable necessity, why not be happy on the road?
Even if there is no longer the blessing of God, even if the road ahead is so lonely, even if there is only silence in the end.
However, how can it be said that God has abandoned us, rather than that we have exiled God?
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2006.12.30
Modified on 2007.2.18
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