In fact, this is where Martin Scorsese excels. This little old man with cute appearance, funny personality and humor was dubbed "movie sociologist" by Hollywood. While today Spielberg, Lucas, Cameron, Michael Bay, and other blockbuster directors who play with money, attract the audience's attention with sturdy screen effects and touching standard Hollywood plots, he always uses his own unique style. From his perspective, he calmly analyzes various stubborn diseases of society and human beings, and spares no effort to pursue the exploration of film language.
So, to give the audience a perverse, neurotic Jesus, it's clear Sykoseth did it on purpose.
In Christianity, the center of Jesus' thought is to "love God with all your heart and your strength" and "love your neighbor as yourself." From this thought, we can infer that even if Jesus is not an amiable immortal with fluttering white hair, he should also be a very friendly and handsome guy next door. But in Scorsese's film, this great man is more like a Chongqing beauty, because the film always reflects the entanglement in his weak character, which is the character trait of most Chongqing beauties.
This is shown from the beginning of the story. The diligent and motivated classmate Jesus made crosses for the Roman dictatorship. This job of a civil servant nature is estimated to be a candidate for the examination. If he can persist, at least he can become a prison warden. However, classmate Jesus, the clear streamer, was naturally disdainful, so he ran to the desert to suffer.
Before Jesus could enjoy life in the refugee camp, the part where he ran to say goodbye to Mary, the prostitute he loved, was particularly tangled. According to the records of the Bible, Mary was a prostitute who had to face the wind even on the Sabbath. Her level of dedication was ninety-nine, and she was definitely a model worker now. It was in front of this model worker that Jesus suppressed his lust and refused her seduction—according to his dialogue with the seeker in the desert in the future, he felt holy and happy at the moment of rejection. How confusing is this. At the same time, this example just shows the entanglement between the soul lovers and the happiness of the world: to reject the happiness of the world in the name of God, but to save the happiness of the world in the name of God.
The same entanglement occurred when Jesus ordered Judas to betray himself. As the omniscient and almighty Son of God, Jesus naturally knew his destiny of being betrayed and crucified. Therefore, in order to fully express the love of God and Jesus for the world, Jesus authorized Judas to sell himself and complete the mission of redeeming the world. But on the other hand, Jesus didn't understand why God's will was for him to die on the cross. He looked up and sighed, you gave me this glass of wine, but I don't want to drink it. For a while, snot and tears flew, blood and red wine were the same color, extremely tangled.
The ultimate entanglement was when Jesus was finally nailed to the cross. Satan pretended to be the Archangel Gabriel and used an ordinary life to lure Jesus down to the altar. This seemingly ordinary move is indeed so shocking to the world. I think it is also the ultimate conflict between human nature and divinity in the hearts of Sykosese and the original author Kazancharsky, a conflict between a sacred cause and a secular cause. Just to escape the unbearable pain on the cross, betrayed his father and betrayed his believers, he will die as an ordinary person. He cried and cried to the sky, forgive me, father, I want to save all beings... So he returned to the cross, and his merits were complete.
Of course, in the end, the tone of the film is still uplifting, so no matter how tangled Jesus' life is, in the end, he must complete the redemption of the world and become immortal. It's just this kind of tangled life that restores Jesus' weakness as a human being. Even God is human.
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