"It's not a fuel-efficient lamp..." This sentence, plus the ellipsis, can sum up the character setting of the protagonist of the story in the first few minutes of the movie: Daniel bullied with his friends in the Shaojiao Institute, his eyes were cold and alienated, but In a blink of an eye, the priest's eyes filled with sincerity and sincerity as his assistant during Mass, and even wept. So we are messy, and we are used to the characters being black and white. Facing this uncertain gray, a big question mark arises in our minds: "Isn't it some kind of fuel-efficient lamp...?"
Daniel was freed, but because of his experience in reform, he could not go to seminary as he wished, so he had to go to work in a sawmill in a small town. He walked into the church in the town, and because he was unwilling to be guessed as a sawmill worker, he told the girl sitting in the church that he was a pastor. After taking out the priest's holy robe, the girl believed him and introduced him to her mother. , that is, church administrators. Daniel, who just wanted to brag, was taken to see the old priest in the town. The next day, the old pastor who was too close to alcohol fell to the ground drunk, and Daniel was taken to the church as a substitute. In the end, he took over the town parish temporarily by accident and became a pastor.
In Daniel's eyes, there was no alienation and indifference or sincerity and sincerity at the beginning, only the word "finished" left in a panic. And then like... Maybe all of us, when we were not ready to face the world, or even ourselves, were put on that "sacred robe" and bit the bullet. Fortunately, there is the Internet, and Saint Google helps to deal with it. He is very similar to Baidu's "How to Write Resumes in English" in the confession room. (Can you really google the Confession Phrasebook? I'll have to try) It's just that Daniel has to deal with something more complicated (if that makes sense): Facing a beating mother in a confession room seeking redemption, doing Mass, in the face of death, in the face of power... Daniel's face can be regarded as very successful. His heartfelt expression of enthusiasm during Mass was very contagious, so more and more townspeople went to the church, and everyone loved him. more and more trust. But, in the end, he has to face true and false, right and wrong, and no search engine can give a guidebook on these two ultimate questions.
Right and wrong or good and evil, is a traffic accident in a small town not long ago, two cars collided on the opposite side. There were six young people sitting on one side, and a middle-aged driver on the other side, none of whom survived. The families of the six young people were in agony, and photos of the deceased were posted on a bulletin board at the entrance of the village. The picture of the middle-aged driver was not there, and he wasn't even allowed to be buried in the town because it was felt that he was responsible for the deaths of six young people. So the wife of the middle-aged man hid at home and did not dare to go out. The outside of the house was filled with insulting language.
Whose responsibility is it? Who is right and who is wrong? The sister of one of the young men who was killed showed Daniel a video of his brother that he had received three hours before the accident. The group of young people were drinking and taking drugs, so you can imagine their state when they were driving. The widow of the middle-aged driver showed Daniel an anonymous letter from the victim's family abusing her. At this point the scale seems to be tipped to one side: young people drink and drive. But after a while, the driver's widow told Daniel that her husband had left in a rage after a fight, because she wouldn't let him in, so he threatened to kill himself. The relationship between good and evil, right and wrong, and the truth is so irresistible, morality can be fat or thin or big or small in the changing reality.
The relationship between right and wrong and power is another balance that is difficult to reset to zero: the mayor is developing his own business vigorously, and he just wants to put his talents to rest. And so there is a calm but tense dialogue between the priest and him in the cramped car: "You have power, but I have reason." "You are right, but the power is with me."
In the face of the one-sidedness of truth and the absoluteness of power, right and wrong seem to weigh less, but not in the heart of the bereaved. Daniel said, forgiveness is love. When I heard it, I felt a large pot of chicken soup splashed on my face, causing moderate burns. But if you think about it again, it seems that there is only this no way. This love is a kind of acceptance. The meaning of forgiveness is to accept those difficult or even unacceptable, right? Those who are different from you, those who oppose you, and those who even hurt you. Choose to believe, or rather believe the one-sided truth that has been chosen, and recognize the absoluteness of power, pessimistic and painful, but perhaps no more painful than the pain of losing a loved one?
Regarding truth and falsehood, many movies use forced or erroneous lies as the basis of their stories, most of which are comically concealed, exposed, and then concealed, and finally the wrong is wrong or the truth is revealed. In a story like this, the lie must bring some benefit rather than harm, and then the audience becomes the most loyal accomplice, tremblingly hoping that the protagonist will not be exposed. If you don't believe it, think about the movie, when the old pastor asks Daniel which seminary in Warsaw he attended, after a short but well-placed pause, he names the college the old pastor is unfamiliar with Did you also breathe a sigh of relief? So for us, which is more important, truth or falsehood? Or is it only in movies that lies are more soothing than debunking?
The "real" pastor in the movie is the old man who fell to the ground drunk. The church administrator said decisively: "The pastor doesn't drink alcohol", after lifting him unconscious onto the bed. When the old pastor was there, the church became increasingly deserted. The "fake" pastor was religious, passionate and pious, and infected the people of the town, and people gradually returned to the church.
Is that Daniel who put on the robe or the one who took it off? Perhaps even he himself is not very clear. It was clear that the robe that was used to distinguish the true from the false was still important in this world, and Daniel could only take it off.
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