1. Andre's transformation
"The colors on him are delicate, gentle, and good at depiction. There's just no fear, no faith in it all," Kirill's description of Andrei. Although Kirill was dazed by jealousy, this description was not wrong, it was laying the groundwork for the impact of the reality that Andre later received. The icons written by Andrea are gentle, different from other traditional icon paintings, making people difficult to look at, bowing their heads, and admiring them. The icons written by him are full of soothing power. "Soothing" - this seems to be the most fundamental spirit of Andre's painting, and it is also a choice for him to accept the influence of Orthodox teachings on people's attitudes towards the world since his training. This is why he was able to repaint the icon with passion after he saw the child who cast the bell building the bell, which inspired the people so much. He was looking for the reason why he painted icons, and when the icons were daunting, he said, "I can't draw them, I don't want people to be scared." After much suffering and spiritual After the trauma, he found the meaning of the "gentle and peaceful" icon painting, which is what he has always believed in, the kindness to people and the comfort to people's hearts.
2. A scene in the church
The horrific slaughter of the crowd gathered in the church - this reminds me of a scene in high school reading "When the Stars of Man", the last mass in Hagia Sophia before the fall of Byzantium, "Three Thousand Years of Jerusalem" with a Roman general mentioning Tus attacked the looting of the Jewish Temple. "The temple itself eclipses the divine glory of all other places. As the sun rises, the glittering palaces and gilded gates reflect a fiery radiance, and those who compel themselves to gaze upon it are forced to look away."
The drawing of the church and the icon paintings in it is to make the divinity of religion more prominent, so that people can belong to and worship God. The golden light of the temple, the dazzling jewels in the Gospels, the Turkish miniature paintings, etc., have endowed God with more soul-inspiring power.
But Titus and the Tatars did not understand this power, and the leader of the Tatars asked the brother of the Archduke "who is that bitch", he replied "It's the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus", and the Tatars answered He "has given birth to children, so it's not a girl."
This is a great blasphemy. Here, the Tatars are compared as the opposite of religion. In fact, what is preached is also a kind of spirit-the barbarism and lack of reverence and fear of human beings under the rule of religion or god.
3. The Holy Fool
There is a crazy girl in the movie. She was in a state of madness from the moment she appeared on the scene. She had a great sense of pain at the pure white walls stained by Andrei's paint. In the church that had been slaughtered and looted by the Tatars And Andre is the only surviving person. If Andre has the aura of the protagonist, then the existence of this crazy girl definitely has a special meaning. After she had gone with the Tartars, she appeared in the form of a holy Virgin in white robes when the bell was cast. This is especially like an image of a holy fool in the Orthodox Church, who, through penance, transformed himself into a holy believer of God.
(From HowNet: Holy Fool is a special cultural phenomenon in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It originated in Egypt, and later spread to Syria and Asia Minor, and was once popular in the Byzantine Empire. From the 14th to the 17th century, it became prosperous in Russia and became a Russian perspective. A prism of culture. Holy Fool ( юродивый) is short for Fool for Christ ( юродивый Христа ради), referring to a unique type of saints in the Orthodox Church who have adopted a special way of asceticism: pretending to be stupid and crazy, giving up The normal material life in the world overcomes the pride and glory of the heart by voluntary suffering (самоизвольное мученичество) ⑤, and constantly improves oneself in order to realize the holy (святость). In the context of the Orthodox Church, the holy is one of the most important attributes of God. One is that it is separated from the world and is higher than all creatures. It is mysterious, unspeakable, and unknowable. The outer clothes are ragged, and the behavior provokes the world, prophesies and exposes, and faces the world with silence and ridicule)
This crazy woman undoubtedly influenced Andre, because of her, Andre killed people, violated the canon, and became silent and faced the world in a self-absorbed way. They all seem to be doing this sober voluntary penance, like the mad woman who suffers so much from the Tatars and goes away with them. When she later appeared in a holy and sober state, it meant that she had completed the most humble penance. The state of the mad girl is actually a more exaggerated reflection of Andre's mental state. His understanding of the icon and religion seems to be following this mad girl. For example, at the beginning, the mad girl was sullied as soon as she appeared on the stage. The church walls have such a violent and revealing mood. After the mad girl faded away from her madness, she showed a detached peace. Therefore, can it be said that this is the spirit of the icon that Andre has been pursuing that can be reflected in art?
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