The evil of faith

Adah 2022-01-27 08:25:15

It can only be said that this film is full of loopholes, but it can barely watch a pseudo-scientific film in the suspenseful atmosphere of pretending to be B. He promoted the feudal superstition of mysticism (there is no disrespect to the mysticism himself), and contributed to the bad ethos of believing in a certain buddy for immortality. All those who believed in science and held a mystical attitude to God were dead; only a doctor of science, a woman for god Moore, escaped asylum.
As a suspense film, Julian Moore's investigation process does not stand up to scrutiny. When investigating the two personalities earlier, why not go straight to the Primarch's family background and look for the variant first? Once again, in this story about faith, people's beliefs are all kinds of strange and chaotic. Grandma confiscated Jonathan's soul, but why is Jonathan a sanctuary for so many? Wasn't his mouth blocked by mud? Isn't the channel for the soul to enter? The people who were killed by Jonathan did not believe in the existence of God, but Jonathan himself was a pseudo-believer. His child was saved because of the flu shot. He did not believe in God at all.
On the other hand, his beliefs were antithetical to his grandmother's. He preached that there was no need for witchcraft medicines to cure diseases as long as one believed in God. The Hollers punished him for letting other people's children die at will, and his God did not protect other peoples. They took him to the grandmother to punish him. And the grandmother punished the priest's false beliefs with her own witchcraft beliefs.
This is a very interesting question. It is not only a question of whether or not to believe, but also a question of the struggle between two beliefs, and at the same time whether it is a question of sincere belief.
The paradox is that grandma turned the priest into a sanctuary for the soul, and the priest is not guarding the witchcraft faith, but using witchcraft to maintain people's belief in God, in other words, he takes away The life of a person who does not believe in God is simply using witchcraft to promote the teaching of God. Oops, what do you mean! Did the grandmother punish him for his dishonesty, or for conflicting beliefs? Not at all. Grandma just said you have to believe it thoroughly! You have to believe that God is able to treat people like fire and water, and you have the kind of thing not to vaccinate your own children. Therefore, the target of this punishment is actually the unbelievers, and the basis is the incompetent preaching of the pastor. That's why the priest's body uses whether or not to believe in God to judge whether a person deserves to die. He wants to make those who do not believe in God get the same punishment as him, the soul leaves the body.
Let's talk about the jar, that jar is a container for storing souls. The treatment process Julian Moore saw outside the tent was that the grandmother took the patient's soul for a while, then removed the lesion on the body, and then put the soul back. . The grandmother blocked the passage of the priest's own soul in and out - the mouth, but at the same time turned his body into a shelter for the soul. Therefore, this pastor is also a very pitiful person. He has many souls on his body but his own soul is a lonely ghost. From this level, it is indeed a punishment, but then again, if a person's soul is in himself, then the person is dead or not, it's really messy. But it can also be explained, because by the logic in the picture, as long as there is body and soul, there is life, so Jonathan can switch between n people. So he is still a poor man, he lives, but not himself. But the problem is that he is so powerful that not everyone can control the souls attached to him to kill people and reverse their beliefs. There is only one sentence to solve this problem, "shelter now the faithless". This human jar is an order enforcer and a walking dead. To shelter the unfaithful to God is to take away their lives. Is this a punishment or a curse, redemption or a crime?
Because there is no redundant explanation in this film, the soul is assumed to be eternal. They either stay in jars, or stay in human jars, which is the "shelter" of the title. But human jars are mortal. Julianne Moore strangled Jonathan in the end. Moore's daughter then becomes a human jar.

This film talks a lot about faith and questioning. Between Moore and her father, between Moore and her daughter, between Moore and her grandmother, the problem is that I still don't understand, what is the film trying to tell the audience to believe? Folk witchcraft is really super powerful, but why do the human jars keep asking people whether they believe in God or not, and those who do not believe will be killed without mercy. As the grandmother of the supreme ruler, it is a paradox to let one hand carry out an order that is not beneficial to him. The tragedy is that Julianne Moore meditates on God and hugs "Human Jar" = "Murderer".

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  • Osvaldo 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    Strong cast, solid performance, broken or not-explained logic.

  • Joy 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Originally thought it was a crime suspense film, so I was quite fascinated by it... But it turned out to be a fantasy film after layer by layer... well... likability plummeted... but julianne still likes it very much. The actor's multiple personalities are still Slightly worse, the feeling of anticlimactic is very strong.

6 Souls quotes

  • Cara Harding: Just because you're older, doesn't mean you're right. It could just mean that you've been wrong for longer.

  • Mrs. Bernburg: Your books may have failed you, but God has not.