For Chinese people who are accustomed to atheism, the amount of information in this film is not large, and even some paragraphs are long and verbose. For us, of course, God no longer exists. Why didn’t God help me when I was sick, and God didn’t help me even if I wanted to find a job? Why did the aunt next door, who recites the scriptures every day and prays for Buddha's safety, had a car accident yesterday? This is our logic, but religious believers don’t use this logic to think about beliefs. They pursue more inner peace. After all, there are countless sufferings that are unsolvable and can only be endured with perseverance. The consolation and hope that come, how can the suffering soul be placed? If you don't believe that you can be rescued in the end, and you don't believe that you can reach the other side of the afterlife, how can you live! At this time, if you deprive them of their beliefs, it is tantamount to trampling on their right to live. Isn't it too inhuman? So they protect their gods even at the cost of blood, and they are actually protecting themselves.
The film simply denies religion with a rude logic, and some scenes that make fun of religious culture seem inappropriate in a modern society that emphasizes cultural respect. If the creators have enough courage to deny religion, then there is a problem that cannot be bypassed. How will they fill the gap of religion?
Obviously they couldn't find the answer, and they hesitated to speak, so they had to turn to the gods who used religion to deceive the people for personal gain. But the next dilemma is that, on the one hand, it cannot directly question the social significance of religion, and on the other hand, it has to uproot the gods. But the root of the magic stick is religion. As long as religion is still there, the magic stick will not disappear. Who is the magic stick? Who is not? Maybe the Pope sitting in the Vatican is the biggest scumbag? If you want to uproot the magic stick, you must not avoid religion. A world with religion but no magic stick does not exist. If you don't have the ability and courage to deny religion, you'd better not touch the big proposition of religion, which will only cause the subject's self-castration.
In the debate at the climax of the film, in fact, the fat god is the real winner. No one answered the question he raised about "where is religion going". "PK" used the persistence of a loving couple to debunk the false predictions of the gods, but there are thousands of gods who can never be exposed, because people don't need them, because of the weakness of human nature.
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