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Maeve 2022-03-22 09:01:17
Eli should be transliterated as "Elai". This is another movie about doomsday prophecy. Eli walks lonely in the desert. The scene is very old-fashioned Western, full of lone rangers, robbers, small towns, bullies, gunfights and other elements. However, we didn't recognize until the end of the film that the original story happened in San Francisco, USA. It's just that San Francisco has become a barren ruin, perhaps the result of another world war. The reason why we can recognize San Francisco is actually from the Alcatraz (The Rock) across the sea, a small island with a high rate of appearance in Hollywood blockbusters. Ironically, the integrity of this island is much higher than that of San Francisco. Eli's life-saving bible was finally able to continue to be printed and disseminated in the printing house on the island. But can the Bible really become a book of salvation?
Extended Reading
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Eli: They say the war tore a hole in the sky, you've probably heard the stories.
Solara: Yeah.
Eli: The war tore a hole in the sky, the sun came down, burnt everything, everyone, I wandered, I didn't really know what I should do or where I was going. I was just moving from place to place, trying to stay alive. And then one day I heard this voice. I don't know how to explain it, it's like it was coming from inside me. But I could hear it clear as day. Clear as I can hear you talking to me now. It told me to carry the book west, it told me that a path would be laid out before me, that I'd be led to a place where the book would be safe. It told me I'd be protected, against anyone or anything that tried to stand in my way. If only I would have faith. That was thirty years ago and I've been walking ever since.
Solara: And you did all this because a voice told you to?
Eli: I know what I hear, I know what I heard, I know I'm not crazy, I didn't imagine it
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Hoyt: [seeing two dead hijackers] It's like he's protected somehow. Like there's nothing that can touch him
Carnegie: Oh, he's just a fucking man. You put a bullet in him, he'll go down like any other.