The English name is axe&cross, which is an axe and a holy cross, similar to using a sword to defend faith. From a filmmaking point of view, this film is indeed nutritious. However, I will watch this film because I want to see the writer's thinking. The focus on witches, alchemy and other subjects has been my thinking orientation for the past two years. East and West, using different symbols, say the same thing.
The witch hunter and the priest in the play are similar to the combination of a soldier and a political commissar. The latter needs to arrange tasks and psychological counseling for the former.
One of the lines of dialogue is interesting:
Dolan: The world is changing.
Witch hunter: only on the surface~
This is an 800-year-old man's view of the times. (It is worth mentioning that there seems to be a number plot of 800 in both East and West. Peng Zu is 800 years old). How to live long? If the soul is immortal, how to explain the population growth? Why did ancient people live longer? Is the cause of soul dilution? Should the "Soul Immortality Theory" + "Six Paths of Reincarnation" + "Animism" be used to construct an explanatory framework for the wandering of life? The increase in population stems from the deprivation of the spirit of mountains, rivers and trees? Thus, multiple deductions can be performed.
The heroine is a dream-walker. It seems that in the east and the west, dreams are more mysterious fantasy, but they are also the real way to cultivate reality.
Wizards are aliens. Magic is magic. All are ancient inheritance, or ancient technology, life technology. The big boss in the play is deliberately portrayed as a dirty image, which is somewhat inappropriate. This big witch obviously represents "life force". There is a shadow of natural theology behind the growth of trees, and the witch hunter represents the existence of alchemy, or Said "modernization" - I'm iron and I'm fire~ used steel and fire to revolutionize the life of the ancient witch. Behind the technological revolution is the outlawing of belief.
This play is concise and meaningful, and there is a reason behind the bad film.
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