Martin Scorsese's consistent style, slow and steady 161 minutes, is about the history of European missionaries who went to Japan to preach during the Tokugawa shogunate era, and were finally sworn to abstain from religion. From a film standpoint alone, there are many reasons why missionaries are bound to fail. language barriers. Regardless of the believers or villains who appear, Yishui's fluent English is really surprising. Knowing oneself and knowing the enemy can be successful in a hundred battles. If you fail to master the language of the other party, you will go deep into the territory. No matter how ambitious you are, it will be in vain. If you want to draw pagans into religion, the charm of language is indispensable. Even if you have the spirit of risking death one after another, you have to practice your lip-smacking skills first. The loyalty and firmness of their own beliefs is true, but they are dismissive of the religions of others, and have a strong sense of pretentiousness and aloofness. Despise pagan language, diet, habits. The Japanese saw through it at a glance, "arrogant guys are doomed to fail". Perhaps it is due to insufficient practice, and a round of confrontation with the opponent is completely defeated, both ideologically and logically. As an atheist bystander, foreign missionaries are unattractive and even less tolerant. "Suffering in religion is both a manifestation of real suffering and a protest against this real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed, humanity in a world without humanity, and soul in a soulless situation. It is the people's Opium." - Introduction to Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, 1844 Essentially, there is no difference between the religion of the Japanese and the religion of the Europeans. In the cultural context, the spread of religion is not only a redefinition of people's spiritual beliefs, but also a kind of erosion and mastery, which is a great threat to the rulers. The rise of any kind of civilization is at the expense of swallowing and sacrificing other races, and the wars caused by it have never stopped since ancient times. Based on the above, the believers watched with tears in their eyes, but I just thought it was boring.
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