Digging, Throwing, and Suicide

Meaghan 2022-06-17 15:15:29

An intellectual film with an easy-to-understand plot, it now seems to be a genre film exclusive to the Iron Curtain country, enough to satisfy the imagination of various classes and the outside world about the system. It doesn't need any footnotes, arguing that the existence of such a thing has become common sense in itself. So when such a film is played, it conveys such an attitude: "I don't care whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway." In fact, it is arrogant and unreasonable.
It conscientiously invents a time and space that is unknown but well-known, and creates a number of typical characters with simple personalities, a set of state machines that drive a carriage, are fully armored, and have no faces, and even the slightest intention to tell the story obscure nothing. Here is another aspect, that is, under a specific historical environment, the popularity of "openness" has nourished the courage of literature and art. It is not surprising that literature and art are released as part of the propaganda machine, serving as a pathfinder for a certain trend of thought, just as it has always been given the same meaning and function. The storyline, as you know, is that of a dead dictator whose grave is dug. The woman who dug the grave was turned over to the Public Procuratorate, and this woman thought she was righteous, and she hated the right family history in court. ). But those words of generosity actually defeated the grandson of the dictator, a handsome young man with a young and sensitive heart, his worldview collapsed, and he committed suicide in despair. His father lost his beloved son, and he collapsed. Finally, he dug his father out of the ground with his own hands and threw it off the cliff in a symbolic way. The conflict was resolved in this way. Justice seems to have been restored, and the murder of the father has definitely been accomplished, which has no moral sense at all.

There is naturally an element of taking things for granted here, such as the example of people breaking down after making a statement in court. Intellectuals like to exaggerate the rhetorical power possessed by their own camp, because that is their only weapon, and this can also be seen as a kind of psychological comfort for being petty. Such a story might have been seen as a coming-of-age fairy tale at the time, but it turned out to be a surprising reality a few years later. After the sudden change of the satellite state, the Soviet Union collapsed and disintegrated in such an astounding and natural way. It has been solemnly paid tribute to idols in the past, and has been abandoned and trampled upon when things have changed. Justice is rightfully restored, as the film tries to show, while the gravediggers have nothing, which is unexpected.

At this point I was thinking of a well-known Christian church organization in the capital (may God give them peace in body and spirit), which is said to be persecuted by worldly authorities during their daily worship and gatherings. The methods of those in power are very convoluted and not very clever. They are nothing more than chasing and blocking, repeatedly dispersing, and claiming that those who only look to God are those who have "ulterior motives" or are "used by people with ulterior motives." But this is a very practical trick—because gradually some believers have come into play following the baton of authority. People say that you are a political gathering, but you say that you just look up to God with a pure heart. However, talking about God in meetings and fellowships has gradually become less and less, and what is more attractive is how to "non-violently and non-cooperatively" strive for our rights that belong to us." Discuss which strategies and tactics to use to "technically defeat the antichrist's siege and interception". In this way, you are really someone with ulterior motives, so that when the law enforcement department is instructed to do errands, you rush up to bite someone's arm in a huff, and it is not similar. Beasts too. Anyway, when the sanctuary where the gospel of God is preached is full of worldly noise, the devil's work to corrupt people's hearts is complete. You don't give up spirituality because of worldly authority, but that resistance The way makes perseverance in vain, perseverance itself makes the perseverance lose the life of God. When I saw the gravediggers in the movie, I thought of such a group of kind-hearted people. In Matthew 8:22, Jesus told his disciples, "Let the dead bury their dead; follow me!". This is not to say that Jesus Christ disrespected the dead, and did not allow his disciples to go home to bury the elderly, perform full rites, and honor their relatives. The Lord Jesus loves life the most, and his care goes straight to the soul. All the dead must also report to him. In the third chapter of Philippians, the apostle Paul also moved to write to his brethren: "I have only one thing, and that is to forget what is behind and strive for what is ahead." This is a positive spiritual attitude. After all, the deceased is dead, and once the deceased is dead, he no longer belongs to this world. Even if it was once loved by me, it is useless to worry about it. As for what we hate, desecrating the dead body does nothing but show off an attitude and satisfy a narrow sense of vengeance. As mentioned earlier, a handsome young man at the age of secondary illness committed suicide with his grandfather's gift gun. He even gave a close-up shot of the gun so that the audience could see the inscription written by the great leader's grandfather to his grandson. The audience can take it for granted that this is the sin of the ancestors who killed innocent children, and can satisfy their own conscience and moral superiority needs while regretting. Those with a darker heart can also be refreshed by the self-destruction of a third-generation official and a vested interest. But the suicide itself is of no help to all that has happened. The incompetence and cowardice of the character child alone cannot move all audiences. If this young man had true faith, he would have known that what the Creator wanted was for a living person to experience and walk in the world, not for a coward who committed suicide. And the sacrifice offered by suicide will naturally not atone for your grandfather's sins, and it is not even qualified to atone for your own sins.

All the things that have been experienced, people always have regrets but can't go back to make up and change. This leads to a common attitude - trying to dig the past out of the graveyard of time and throw it away so easily - is childish and irresponsible. We must face up to the past and the past of our ancestors, rather than condemn and escape. Just as there are quite a few people who have infiltrated the Christian church, usurping God’s authority, stealing spiritual words for their own use, and using God as a tool to judge others. In a sense, such a corpse excavator is not fundamentally different from what the dead person who was thrown off the cliff did before. We don't need to put some corpses in a crystal altar to keep them fresh and embalmed. What is the benefit of worshipping idols made by humans? That kind of worship will only leave a legacy, as the heroine said in the dock, if you commemorate him, he will still be alive. But those buried corpses are just like countless abandoned and forgotten times, festering and decomposing at the end of everything. In the same way, a person who dug up a corpse buried in the ground would occupy his entire world, and would really live in the heart of a corpse thief for a long time.

At the end of the film, the old lady and the heroine discuss the issue of "the road to the church" in a serious manner. It is helpless for people who do not believe in God to talk about things in the temple of God. The Way of Vallam is certainly not the way to heaven and redemption. But that doesn't mean a black-and-white logic holds true. Those who oppose the Way of Vallam are not necessarily all on the way to heaven. For example, those who dug the graves of the dead, probably haven't set out on the road yet.

View more about Repentance reviews

Extended Reading

Repentance quotes

  • Female Voice: Shortly before his death, Einstein raised his voice for the last time to tell the world of the tragedy of a modern scientist. This was his testament: "The fate of a modern scientist is tragic. His inspiration leads him to clarity and inner independence. By almost superhuman efforts he had forged a weapon of his own social enslavement and destruction of his personality. The situation even reached a point where the political authorities had muzzled him. Has the time really passed when the scientist's intellectual freedom and independent research could enlighten and enrich people's lives? Has he forgotten, in his blind quest for the scientific truth, about his moral responsibility before humanity and about his honour? Our world is under threat of a crisis the scope of which seems not to be realized by those in authority. The released power of the atom changed everything but our way of thinking, and thus we keep sliding down to a catastrophe never seen heretofore. For the mankind to survive, we have to learn to think in a new way. The most difficult task of our time is to avert this threat. At this decisive moment, I'll be appealing to you with all my feeble capacity."

  • Sandro Barateli: The vibration has damaged not only the frescos. There are cracks in the walls of the church. If it goes on this way, the church will collapse. By the way, the church stands on piles. We ask you to immediately stop laboratory experiments in the church and put up as soon as possible a new building for the research institute.

    Varlam Aravidze: You mean to say that you're against science and progress?

    Sandro Barateli: We're against the science that destroys ancient monuments.

    Varlam Aravidze: Doksopulo, what was that church directive about?

    Doksopulo: It's about a dilapidated church.

    Mosse: Who says it's dilapidated?

    Doksopulo: It's almost ruined.

    Mosse: Almost. You hear that? Almost!

    Doksopulo: The building is almost ruined, it's the nidus of infection. There're snakes and lizards breeding in its foundation. No one attends your church anymore. Long past are the times when people were being told that G-d created man. The fact that we all had descended from a monkey was concealed. That's why it's been decided to pull the church down and on that place...

    Varlam Aravidze: Wait, Doksopulo! Esteemed Doksopulo! The Church of the Mother of G-d is one of the greatest monuments of early Christianity. A cultural monument! Demolishing it means cutting off the life-giving roots that nourish and spiritually enrich our people. Then throw into fire the works of Rustaveli and Dante! Stop playing Bach, Beethoven, Verdi! Let's demolish the St. Peter Church, Notre Dame, Svetitskhoveli. Esteemed Varlam! Our church used to have some unique relics. Through centuries our ancestors had protected them up to this day. But they've been lost without a trace. Now the building is collapsing. But we...

    Varlam Aravidze: Doksopulo, give me the text of my directive on the laboratory. Look what's written here: "I deem appropriate the construction of a new building of the laboratory. However, in view of lack of funds, we should temporarily abstain from it." You see, we're concerned, too. But it seems we can't put it off any longer, you have convinced me. Doksopulo! Do you have a mother?

    Doksopulo: Yes.

    Varlam Aravidze: How old is she?

    Doksopulo: Very Old.

    Varlam Aravidze: Aren't you supposed to take care of her? The same goes for that church, the monument of the 6th century, our pride and our history. A son should never leave his sick mother without care. Remember it well. We should be grateful to these noble people for opening up our eyes, for telling us the truth. I give you my word that I won't spare any effort to solve this problem. And the experiments, as far as I know, are conducted at a minimal capacity. It will go on this way until the new building is erected.

    Mosse: If the high voltage installations work at a full capacity, not only the church, but the whole town will blow up.