Idiot Christians Give Up Self-Saving - "The Land Forsaken by God"
Today, let's talk about the movie "Land Forsaken".
Title The Devil All the Time (2020), alias Devil All the Time.
"A Land Forsaken" is based on Donald Ray Pollock's 2011 novel of the same name and focuses on a land in the 1960s in the United States. "Land Forsaken" refers to a stretch of land from Nokenstedt, Ohio, to Coal Creek, West Virginia.
This piece of land, like the title says, is a place abandoned by the gods. My grandmother doesn't love it, and my uncle doesn't love it. It's just some appalling and unimaginable things that happened. If it wasn't for the witnesses, it would be hard to believe that it really happened. It's really the devil who is there all the time.
Well-earned Netflix has amassed a slew of stars to bring the novel to the big screen.
Just looking at the starring list, you will see many familiar faces. The top is the Dutch brother "Spiderman" Tom Holland, the veteran vampire newcomer "Batman" Robert Pattinson, "The Joker" "Fourth Sister Bill Skarsgard, "Harry Potter" Dudley Harry Mirling, 384 "Winter Soldier" Sebastian Stan, "Terminator: Genesis" Jason Clarke .
It can be said that the lineup is strong and star-studded. However, this large group of commercial film stars gathered together to shoot a film with a literary style, which is even more exciting.
"Land Forsaken" consists of several segments, each segment tells a puzzling and embarrassing story, and finally through the large series of characters, a series of stories are strung into a complete movie.
The specific content of the story is not repeated in detail, and the film is basically a linear narrative without any barriers to understanding.
Bill Skarsgard plays Willard Russell, a veteran of the Vietnam War. He has a bad temper and can solve problems with his fists is no nonsense. He believed in God and believed that as long as he sacrificed to God, he could save his wife from cancer. In order to show his loyalty to God, Willard raised his butcher's knife and slashed at the animals and people around him.
Holland plays Arvin Russell, the son of Willard Russell. Under the influence of his father, Awen understands that violence is a simple and efficient way of communication, and he is also a believer. After his sister was injured, the seeds of tyranny in Arwen began to germinate, and he also began to doubt God.
Harry Mirling plays Roy Rafferty, a small-town priest who devotes himself to God's fervent worship and embarks on an extreme path in pursuit of a miracle in his heart. Long-term extreme behavior caused Roy to have auditory hallucinations, mistakenly thinking that he had heard the call of God, induced extreme behavior, and led to tragedy.
Robert Pattinson is the new pastor of the town, Preston. In the guise of God, he uses the ignorance of the believers to swindle everywhere, defrauding money and sex. Moreover, Preston's eloquence is not bad, and his ability to reverse black and white to tell right and wrong is first-class, often bluffing others. His approach might work well for people with a docile temperament, but it would be hard for those with a violent temper.
Sebastian Stan plays Lee Bodek, a corrupt cop in the town. He was obsessed with running for the post of sheriff, begging for pity from the evil forces in the locality, and putting pressure on ordinary good people, but his sister Sandy Henderson has never let him worry. Li's unclean style and his final ending are very compatible.
Jason Clarke plays Carl Henderson, a local thug. Carl leads Sandy Henderson around town in search of lonely travelers. After finding a suitable target, the traveler is forced to have a relationship with Sandy. Carl takes pictures, kills the traveler after taking pictures, and buries his body. They have been doing it for years to satisfy their quirks.
In "Land Abandoned by Gods", there is not a single character with a positive image. It is really like being abandoned by the gods. The people living in this land are treacherous and dull people.
For example, a small village of 400 people is very xenophobic, long-term intermarriage of close relatives, 400 people are actually related to each other, and the low intelligence is justifiable.
The story here is full of ignorance and ignorance, greed and anger, violent pornography, and anyone who wants to get out of the mud and not be stained will be pulled into the quagmire of crime. Even if he was able to escape from this place in the end, he would no longer be the pure self he used to be.
Awen was originally a believer, but after seeing his father's behavior, Awen had doubts about God. After seeing the godfather's misdeeds again, Awen is more determined not to believe in God, but to believe in his own value judgment.
It is difficult for atheists to understand the various ignorant behaviors of the characters in the film. Blind faith and blind obedience to put on the cloak of religion are still idealistic behaviors that are divorced from reality. "The Internationale" has long written that there has never been a savior, nor an immortal emperor.
The more ignorant people are, the more they will place their spirits on illusory things. Those with ulterior motives will further use superstition to kidnap the ignorant and ignorant, so the entanglement is getting deeper and deeper, and the victims are getting deeper and deeper.
There is no harm without contrast. Comparing the tragic experiences of these unfortunate people, we know the value of breaking feudal superstition and strengthening basic education.
The gods themselves do not exist. Rather than saying that this land is a "land abandoned by gods", it is better to say that the people on this land chose to give up on themselves.
Poverty alleviation must first help the intelligence, and education must first be lifted out of poverty. Marrying close relatives all day long, going to church if you have nothing to do, and going to school to study like a joke, so you can never escape the curse of the devil. In the end, they would only shirk their responsibilities with a fluttering "land abandoned by gods", as if there were gods who really felt sorry for them and abandoned them. I didn't even think about finding the reason for myself.
The pros and cons of Land Forsaken are obvious.
The advantage is that there are many characters in the film, and there are many clues but clear.
After the original novel of more than 100,000 words has been simplified and simplified, it has been changed into several short stories, each of which is gripping and shocking, and is very worthy of recognition. In addition, the actors have presented wonderful performances one after another, proving their acting skills, commercial movie stars are not traffic stars.
The downside is that it adds a lot of narration.
I don't know how the director thought about it. There are a lot of narrations in the film. It is inappropriate to say that a lot of narration is a huge amount of narration. I guess if it weren't for the space limit, the director would have held a book club. A large number of narrations greatly weakened the sense of film, but instead the sense of novel was still strong. Audiences who have watched literary and artistic films all year round have limited understanding. Who is the director looking down on with this arrangement?
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The advantages and disadvantages are equally obvious.
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