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Among the four Gospels, "Matthew's Gospel", "Mark's Gospel" and "Luke Gospel" are called "Synoptic Gospels". Are there any Protestant netizens here? If so, they should know that Protestantism translates this theological term as "synoptic", which is "synoptic" in English, and these three gospels focus on the life of Jesus. In Pasolini's view, the Gospel of Mark is vulgar in writing, the Gospel of Luke is cumbersome, and only the Gospel of Matthew is beautiful. As a director, Pasolini has always had the attributes of a poet. He believes that in Jesus he saw a perfect and irreproducible soul: the son of a carpenter, born in a manger, wandering all his life, living at the control of the nomadic proletariat, living alone The power challenged the privileged class, died tragically, and finally mysteriously resurrected. In this regard, Pasolini is like the Bolivian mountain peasants, who see Che Guevara as the second coming, probably because of Che Guevara's beard that the Latins like, maybe because Che Guevara is not a minister to fight guerrillas, maybe It is because of Che Guevara's death, which is not listed here.
Pasolini possesses this rare and unparalleled sense of sanctity with the most succinct shots. The first shot of the whole film: the camera is aimed at Maria who is immaculately conceived for a long time, without any lines, the eyes of the girl Maria are full of immaturity, tension and confusion. Then a counterattack, St. Joseph, who learned that his wife was a virgin and pregnant, appeared in the camera. He had a philosopher's face with sharp edges and corners, and shock, or anger, gushed from the depths of his heart. He walked silently out of Maria's dilapidated farmhouse, walking alone on the gravel-strewn road without looking back. He walked towards the mountain city of Bethlehem, and looked up at the noisy city from the foot of the mountain. There was a noise similar to piling in his voice channel. In front of Joseph was a group of slapstick children. The noise and urchins symbolized the industrial civilization and urchins that Pasolini hated. young generation. Joseph was in a turmoil and lay on the ground to rest. Suddenly, the angel Gabriel appeared and told him that Maria's pregnancy was a human being, that is, Jesus. Although Joseph could not understand what the angel said, he ran back to Maria's house full of joy. The unrestrained black soul song begins for the first time. Maria, who had never touched a man, finally dared to look at Joseph, and their faces showed clumsy but really beautiful smiles. The first set of shots of the film set the tone: reborn from unspeakable pain, greeted with unimaginable ecstasy, the grace from above the sky will eventually come to these assholes at the bottom of society. They are such insignificant figures that for two thousand years countless theologians have been unable to dig out more information about their lives.
I guess that Pasolini designed these two pictures at the beginning of the film to pay homage to the paintings of the Annunciation by Jan van Eyck and Bruegel, the painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Always keen to subvert traditional Italian religious paintings, Doors captures an alternative sense of sanctity with almost amateurish daring. This is also Pasolini's idea. The actor who plays the angel is likely to be a classmate of the actor who plays Maria. After the traces of the performance are completely erased, the beauty that belongs to religion outside of human nature is finally released through film technology. To the weary minds of 20th-century audiences.
There are simple faces of non-professional actors one after another in the film. The director deliberately created a large silence, accompanied by desolate and tough black and white images, and the spiritual soundtrack of "Sometimes I'm Like a Child Who Lost a Mother", Jesus. The Palestine of the era exuded a kind of nobility only under Pasolini. Nobility lies in purity and loneliness. In the last shot of the first half of the film, Jesus said, "Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no pillow to lie on." With his disciples, when he accomplished the miracle of five loaves and two fish and the crowd embraced him as king, he fled from the crowd. Which revolutionary leader in history has done this?
When Jesus preached the Beatitudes, the camera was long-term aimed at the Spanish college student who played Jesus. The background was a wasteland and lightning. There was no dialogue or any audience. At this point he was as intimidating as a crazy extreme metal musician. Some critics say that passages in Jesus' speech to the crowd in Jerusalem are a metaphor for liberation theology, depicting Jesus as a leader of the left, so what? Can the words that came out of his mouth come from others? "Alas, Jerusalem! How I would have liked to gather your children together like a hen gathers her young under her wings, but you would not!" From 1:29 onwards, Jesus led the disciples and the crowd, and lived with them in the temple The Pharisees above started fighting round after round. At 1 hour and 39 minutes, he gave a speech under the city gate, full of passion, and challenged the Pharisees. At this time, a high-pitched chant was playing in the channel, At 1 hour and 41 minutes, the fanatical crowd shouted long live for Jesus, and the disciples built a human wall for him like the bodyguards of today's rock stars. Jesus looked back at the Jerusalem towering on Mount Zion, and predicted this with a grim expression. The destruction of the holy city, his eyes are so cold and sharp, his words and deeds are so unruly, before his time, there were generations of prophets who wanted to wake up mankind to purify this world full of sin. Behind him, there is no one who thoroughly criticizes the bottomless depravity of mankind like him. He is unique and unparalleled in the world. In English, he is a world-beater. You can also understand it as "a person who beats the whole world".
The film left a lot of facial close-ups of Jesus, and sometimes the shots were even close to the point where the actors would feel uncomfortable. This film language that smoothly switches between close-ups and panoramas is not from Pasolini, but from whom? And who would let their mother play the Virgin of the Passion? In this film, Jesus is not a wise man without power, nor is he a god who doesn't eat human fireworks, but a passionate troubadour and a fighter who is alone; at the same time, a large number of Panoramic shots of Jerusalem are repeated, and the sacredness and majesty of Jerusalem has long since been transformed into the arrogance and weakness of power. Pasolini's film does not change a single word of the Gospels, nor does it use a professional actor, because the life of Jesus recorded in the Gospels is shocking enough. He really exists in history, but he is not a man, he is the Son, he His silence is far more eloquent than people's eloquence, not to mention that he disdains to conceal himself.
At the end of the Gospel of Matthew, when a man betrays his lord under power and seeks glory, it is the woman who accompanies the failed savior under the cross, and there is his old mother, who is full of tears, in the words of the Bible "A sharp sword pierces your heart." Pasolini made his mother play the role of the Virgin of Pity. In his opinion, motherhood is the only weapon that can resist human tyranny. Did he expect that in reality, his mother also Will she be pierced by a sword like Maria 11 years after the film is finished?
Most of the stories left to us in the dark ages are about martyrdom and perversion. Only these women persisted to the end. It was these women who brought Jesus back to life. This miracle that shook the world for 2,000 years was the first to spread to desperate humans. Jesus said: "I I will be with you until the end of this world." At the end of this world, stars fall, mountains and rivers change their course, and the world will change forever. When Jesus was born, a bright star rose in the sky; when he was slaughtered with the Passover lamb, there was a solar eclipse in the sky, and the light at its brightest was swallowed up by an endless black hole. Light and darkness alternated in seemingly eternal time. God intervened in the world of man. He gave up the omnipotence of God, chose man’s humility, and endured unbearable pain. It's an absolutely incredible story, but it's also an absolutely moving one! The story of Jesus will never end.
The Vatican, the Communist Party, the atheists all love this movie, and all intelligent life in the universe should pay tribute to this movie.
"Behold, Lamb of God, behold, he who takes away the sins of the world, blessed is he who is called to his feast."
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