Belief

Camilla 2022-03-24 09:03:18

Movies are convincing as a medium, and if it tells me it's a true story, I really believe it. While watching this movie, especially at the end, I really asked again "is this true" "does anyone really choose to die between life and death?" But I think the opening credits say it's a true story , I was shocked again. The first page of the Bible should also say that this is a true story.

I've also come to an age where my heart is turbulent, and I feel like I'm trying to win a place in the world, and sometimes I don't want to. Franz's choice of secret and quiet is a saint's choice. He can participate in the Nazis completely, climb up like others, and gain fame and fortune. But he chose not to cooperate in what he thought was injustice by virtue of his conscience and faith. This story does not need to be told about World War II. In every era, there are people who are not complicit in the secular world. They give up fame, fortune, and even a beautiful family to defend the truth. There are people who are not praised for writing like this, and who do such things with faith, maybe the good in this world is greater than the evil. Each of us makes a small choice, sacrificing ourselves for the truth, sacrificing our own interests, although not known by others, but God knows. When we give up trying to survive, a new light shines into our lives. For the sake of God and faith, give up life, choose death, give up family, and give up the people and things that you cherish. When we have the courage to let go of these, a new light will shine into our lives

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Extended Reading
  • Beau 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    The country life in the first half showed a wealth of work content, and I basically saw it as an Austrian Li Ziqi. The art is great, and the story is like a person standing outside a wormhole and watching the inside of the wormhole—good...slow...

  • Mae 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Probably a story that fits Malik's aesthetic better than The Tree of Life, and more importantly, the process of making the film - making the Hidden Things visible (before the world), as a contemporary sermon And missionary behavior, the film is even a gospel in that sense. However, this film is highly demanded, and Malik's images, which lack sufficient narrative support, have always been easily reduced to a natural "landscape" that lacks inner divinity.

A Hidden Life quotes

  • Waldland: I wish I'd had a wife. And a farm. And apple trees, and a cherry tree. And... Maybe some grapes. We should do our own wine: white wine and red wine. When red wine for the winter, and white wine for the summer.

  • Franz Jägerstätter: I don't know everything. A man may do wrong, and he can't get out of it to make his life clear. Maybe he'd like to go back, but he can't. But I have this feeling inside me, that I can't do what I believe is wrong.

    Judge Lueben: Do you have a right to do this?

    Franz Jägerstätter: Do I have a right not to?