Among the movies discussing Jesus, famous people include "Jesus Biography" filmed by the Academy Missionary Society, which comprehensively shows the life of Jesus incarnate; there is also "The Last Temptation of Jesus", which depicts the sublimation of Christ from humanity to divinity, but has caused great controversy. ; There is also the shocking "Superstar of All Ages", which is performed by rock music; in recent years, there is also "The Passion" that shocks people's hearts with profound image effects. In these film works, you can see Jesus described in different aspects, some are influenced by liberal theology to remove the mystery of Jesus, and some maintain the position of fundamentalism and just put a lot of information in the film; In Rini's Gospel of Matthew, what we see is Jesus who has cut off the crumbs and preserved the essence. He is full of humanity, standing with the people, but always showing his divinity. His stance is conservative but touching people's hearts.
The way this film is shot is a bit primitive and vulgar. To be more precise, this film does not use too many so-called "techniques", or the director has forgotten that he is using these methods when shooting. The whole film, like a documentary, has been taken lightly. The use of non-professional actors, their simple acting skills, and unsophisticated props, completely follow the sentences in the Gospel of Matthew, but instead convey the views more directly to the audience and directly talk to the audience.
In the era of liberation theology at the time, Bellini created such an image of Jesus. It is well known that Bellini is a Marxist and homosexual, so he was met with great resistance at the time of filming, but the presence of Jesus in the film not only made liberal theologians accustomed to ethical methods to think about whether to forget the divine nature. The influence of Jesus on the people of the Lebanese people; for the fundamentalist theologians, they also began to think about whether to forget that Jesus originally came to save "those who labor and bear heavy burdens", standing beside the toiling people and making friends with them.
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