The Belgian ghost director has another brain-opening movie "Super New Testament", which redefined the true meaning of life by joking about religion with his unrestrained imagination. In this film, God is still in control of the world, but he can only hide in an ordinary room in Brussels and peep out and have fun in a perverted way. Once he walked out of this closed room, he was no different from mortals, sloppy and sloppy.
In order to resist the violent oppression of her father, the daughter of God angrily leaked the secret of human life and death, and then fled to the mortal world to find six disciples to rewrite the "Super New Testament". This is where the film's playful subversion of the Christian faith really begins. People's life and death fate is no longer placed in God, but in their own hands. This is the beginning of God's majesty sweeping away.
The film's next subversion of the belief in God is the rewrite of the Super New Testament. Christianity is based on the authority of God, and this authority of God is communicated to the world according to the New Testament. Rewriting the Super New Testament would directly remove God's influence on earth. The Super New Testament is different from the New Testament in that it no longer tells the story of God, but the story of the six believers that Ijah was looking for in the world. This completely removes God from the human world.
So, the question is, what is the significance of this subversion of belief in God? What does this interpretation of the film express?
Then you must first open this "Super New Testament" and see what is written in it. With the help of the daughter of God, Aureli, the first disciple, got out of the shadow of her broken arm in childhood and met someone who truly loved her. The holy word she recorded in the book is: life is like an ice skating rink, and wrestling is inevitable. The second disciple gave up his step-by-step work, stopped staying in place, and resumed the adventures and travels he had loved since childhood. The third disciple no longer indulges in the fantasies of the past, and finds the woman he has been in love with since he was a teenager in the work of the society. The fourth disciple met the woman he truly loved, and his twisted psychology of killing people was changed. The fifth disciple had a thorough understanding of his husband and life, and bravely abandoned his current marriage to find true happiness. The sixth disciple was frail and sick from an early age, and when he knew that his death was near, he decided to be a girl. And fulfilled his wish to die by the sea.
The transformation of these six disciples comes down to one thing, and that is finding the self. In their previous lives, their ego was severely oppressed by reality, and they didn't have the courage to change the current routine life and show themselves. Prompted by the date of their death, they gained this courage, and how to live the rest of their lives became their primary concern.
So how does this search for self relate to belief in God?
God is the answer that human beings create when they face the world without solutions. It gives human beings the courage and strength to face various difficulties in the world. Most importantly, it entrusts human beings with many beautiful expectations and longings. It gives eternal hope and it represents happiness in the clouds. This is the reason why many people lose themselves. In their hearts, there are always many longings far beyond the current life, and this longing has been sentenced to death by reality. On the one hand, they obtained comfort from this vain yearning, on the other hand they decided in their hearts that it could not be realized.
And when people know their own life and death - the biggest mystery in the world, God's authority has collapsed, and people no longer care about the God who is in the clouds, but start to think about the happiness of the moment. The process of finding yourself is to come out of the false yearning for the future and start to arrange your life according to your own heart.
So heaven does not exist because of God, but because of ego. This is what Elijah, the daughter of God, said to the writers of the Super New Testament: After death there is nothingness, and this is heaven.
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