---- "The Gospel of Matthew"
I agree with a friend here. If you don't understand Christianity, or believe in the Lord, then you won't understand this movie with a strong religious atmosphere.
To understand this film, it is either a child or a believer, because this seemingly incomprehensible story has to be read with the heart, not the head.
The pure soul is more inclined than the mind to feel the mysteries of nature.
In the 1990s, there was a wave of anti-intellectualism in Hollywood. Many first-line stars competed to play the role of mentally handicapped people. The most well-known is Gump created by Hanks. History is a popular American history textbook, which records many important events, and the person who tells this history is actually a person with a questionable IQ who is called a fool by ordinary people. I think the idea of a movie like this could only be made by someone who was influenced by the good-hearted blacksmith Joe in English literature. In fact, this tradition has its roots in James Stewart's simple, confident, and shy screen image.
Kind, simple people are more likeable, as clean as a child, almost a saint.
Anyone who has read Dostoevsky's works must be impressed by those crazy women, idiots. This Christian creed of simplicity and kindness, suffering and love is the proud side of Western civilization, giving those pure and unfortunate people a holy light, listening to their voices, and treating them as their own brothers and even God The gift to remind us not to be arrogant and turn our backs on nature and God.
It is impossible to appreciate this kind of film without understanding this point of view. In a sense, this kind of film is the reflection of society on knowledge and the discussion of conscience. Although it is called anti-intellectual, it actually reminds people to face their own souls. Don't get lost in the hustle and bustle of the mundane.
Of course, we in China have followed suit and made a few such films, but the effect is very poor. They just treat people as clowns, at most pity, and they deal with this subject from the perspective of so-called normal people-savvy people. Ah, we also have a few famous lunatics in China, such as Fan Jin, who went crazy because of the exam, and now there are people who jumped off the building because of the college entrance examination, so I don't know what the college entrance examination 1977 is promoting.
As for a fool, I have been called a fool since I was a child, because I can't count, and I'm very poor at math. Until now at the age of 37, I am fortunate to be called a fool. From family members to those who unclog water pipes, they kindly remind me that I am a simple-minded person. I'm an idiot, because I always pay the workers a dollar more than the woman upstairs, pay the sanitation fee on time every time, and because I can't turn the water pipe to the minimum and the water meter won't run, but I can get the water.
In our home village, people who are introverted and don’t like to talk, don’t like to interact with people, and are loyal are called fools. Therefore, in our northern countryside, if a person is kind and trusts others Those who speak and fulfill their promises, those who have never deceived others but are often deceived by others, are all called fools.
I think the Chinese are the most shrewd people in the world. They have been educated smartly since they were young. At the age of four, they took a math Olympiad class. At the age of five, they could memorize the Three Character Classic. Not to mention how smart they are. Especially fast, very shrewd in imitation and laziness, because all creation is risky and breaking the rules, which requires courage, wisdom and hard work, but it is cost-effective to package other people's things that have been successful and then sell them. trade!
Therefore, we, a smart nation, can't shoot Forrest Gump and Nell. First, people don't like fools and lunatics. Second, people who make movies are smart people. They can't understand that one person will put all their savings It is incredible that a person can actually refuse to exhibit the opportunity to be famous in exchange for himself, and is willing to live in seclusion! What a madman, a fool!
If they don't believe it at all, they can't talk about loving those people, and naturally they can't take pictures.
Jodie Foster is the protagonist of a typical American fairy tale. She became famous very early, a talented student of the ivy, and an independent woman, but her talent is not controlled by Hollywood. She insists on her own style, dominates her own career, and does not make empty vases. , she is a smart, determined, principled free female artist, so she plays this Nell is very touching and believable.
Only a person who is equally simple, natural, and as innocent as a child can play this role. Because Nell is a child who has been hurt, I predict that Judy must have carefully observed and studied children, and even the innocent demeanor and tone of infants, which is the result of myself as a woman and mother. Feeling, a person who has never lived with children and truly loves children is absolutely impossible to perform with such eyes and actions. The famous actress and mother uses her strong sense of religion and knowledge and love for her children to create a classic figure, a saintly, pure woman.
She can't speak, she has no common sense of the world, she is the daughter of nature, nature gave her simplicity and love, she understands what has been lost by the so-called civilized world, kindness, love, and piety. She is a child, so she is neutral and has no desires, but she can understand the voices of lonely people, understand the feelings of those who are hurt, she understands all suffering people, and hopes to use love to unite people.
She loves nature, listens to God in the lake and the woods, she is far away from the hustle and bustle of sin, like an angel. She is free, pure, kind, with a smile like a child, and she is a saint.
The courtroom scene that was criticized is indeed a very American preaching, because anyone who has watched a lot of American movies knows that the more vulnerable those who seem to be, the more they will win in the final Jedi counterattack, but fortunately, Nelson's performance is still good. He is married to the actor who plays the female doctor.
I watched this movie with tears in my eyes. I felt as if someone understood my heart and comforted my loneliness and pain with warm hands. Maybe this is God's revelation and love.
You shall enter by the narrow gate.
For the gate that leads to destruction is wide, and the way is broad, and many people enter it; but the gate is narrow and the way that leads to eternal life, and few find it.
"Gospel of Matthew"
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