Looking back at the people in the film, the townspeople suffer from bereavement, pray all day, but also viciously write letters to widows. The whistleblower seemed to use this to coerce Daniel to seek money, but it was actually love and self-blame for his daughter. The mayor's intention was to quell the incident, and he was later influenced to some extent. Not to mention the bastard Daniel Black dressed as a priest, spreading divinity. At the final farewell Mass, Daniel took off his shirt, raised his hands, tattooed his sins, and prayed for forgiveness with his eyes. Divinity and evil nature dormant in him at the same time. The film revolves around the old case in the town, and the core is the question of "where is God". Daniel said at Mass that God is at the door. He himself is the most realistic practitioner of this sentence. A person who does all kinds of evil can become a kind person, even a person who spreads theology, when he opens his heart and begins to awaken his divinity. In my understanding, this is the answer to the unity of divinity and evil in human nature. It's actually how you see yourself, what you are. When he finally leaves the church shirtless, his mother tells him God bless you, the only time he doesn't answer. Because at this time he has been forced to come down from this position and return to his original state, which is undoubtedly sad. It is extremely ironic that a person who had been "awakened" was pulled back into the quagmire by the so-called religious authority. When the real Pastor Thomas told the girl that there would always be a priest in this parish, the girl smiled meaningfully. Although there are many pastors, Daniel has only one. What people lack is not a pastor, but a presence like Daniel who can awaken people's inner divinity. If the church fails to make people feel truly divine, where is its dignity and authority? In fact, it is somewhat similar to the feeling of the Protestants after the British Reformation, using a humanistic concept to interpret the meaning of religion. In the era when the church monopolized faith, is God in the temple or within reach? Does one have to repent bitterly or can one become a Buddha on the spot? This is also the question that the director threw to us at the end, borrowing Daniel's face full of blood and empty blue eyes.
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