It's so beautiful to be able to watch it on the big screen~ and the subtitles are also very thoughtful, try not to explain too much, so that people who don't know the background of the biblical story can know this, although it may not have a big impact~ and I actually thought at the beginning The subtitles are wrongly adjusted~~ (and the language style of the subtitles is the feeling of the original bible - even if you have read it a little bit - I summed it up as not to speak the sentences according to the two-syllable words ~ there is a blunt but very exciting Feelings~~I really have a heart.)
Pasolini's camera movements are fun and free, not very stylized, but there is a special feeling, and it seems that he still likes to flash everyone close-up one by one, so that you can take your time to look at it ~ and then in the beggar I saw the circle again~~ (and some kind of zoom-like lens, or cut to the close-up by playing the front and back. In short, it seems that before the TV generation of directors, the close-up of the old movies will be very cautious, there is a special kind of express needs)
His music is also interesting, the beggar is a magical use of Bach, it seems to repeat the motif all the time, different from the surface story, more lyrical, with a pessimistic flavor; and here is a more strange mix, as if It's also mentioned in the book, and it's a lot of changes, but not much, and the silent moments are very special, like when Jesus first appeared.
And it seems that these two actors are not professional actors. Their faces, torso, and feelings are very special ~ very interesting. If the artist wants to draw the Virgin Jesus, he created it, and it seems that the film is completely another way, It's hard to say who it belongs to, and who brought it exactly.
Speaking of painting, it was only after seeing some religious paintings this year that I seemed to know Jesus. It is very strange that a person who has no Christian background and has not read the Bible may have "God" in his heart for some reasons, but for Jesus, But it is felt in the display of each individual as an individual. Those paintings, the removal of Christ, the fishing miracle, the unrecognized after the resurrection, and of course the countless Annunciations... are all seen as background supplements for the introduction, and sometimes they are pitiful, but Indeed, some of the emotions are genuine. I feel that Pasolini's feelings come from these "traditions", if you consider him as an atheist or just Jesus, because the Jesus in his movies is not the same, especially in a lot of close-ups, with a lot of classic quotations with sharp Complex eyes, at least his Jesus is complex, not the kind that is purely touching. However, when expressing the suffering of Jesus, it seems that it is not easy to directly feel it in the painting, but in the movie, when another nail is inserted to be nailed to the cross, it is very powerful~ just like Lynch caused the elephant man That kind of feeling is not just obtained by imagination and intelligence ~ but this is not the point. The point is that Jesus is moving. At least his artist's writing may have become the embodiment of artistic beauty, or it may be self-conjecture.
On the way, I heard someone say that the taste of the Bible is not right~ Then I don't know. But the movie is beautiful, especially the sets. I remember staring at the city from a distance many times, shaking, trance, black and white. At the same time, about Judaism, I don't know how it is dealt with in the Bible. It seems that Pasolini is emphasizing a problem of human nature and the origin of suffering, rather than the kind of verification, or deep and persistent belief, like the Swedish director.
(Remember that there is a picture of heaven and hell, and then Satan in the lower right corner is terrible to swallow people ~ it seems to be Durer ~ and look here again ~)
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