There are no conclusions, only doubts.

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The term "Ten Commandments" comes from the Bible, which is the ten commandments given to Moses by Jehovah God for the Israelites to obey. The film is not religious, but uses these ten fundamental questions to discuss human nature. However, personal religious beliefs will still essentially influence the understanding of the film. I especially like the first and fifth commandments myself.
"You shall not have other gods; you shall not make idols for yourself, and you shall not bow down to those images; you shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; honor your father and your mother; you shall not murder; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness. Fraud; do not covet your lover's house, wife, servants, ox and donkey, and all that he has."


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First Commandment: Life is impermanent
I am the LORD your God, and you shall have no other gods before me.
I am the LORD thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Eight-year-old Barber has a small lake in front of his house where he likes to skate in winter. But it is only safe to play on the ice if the ice is thick enough. Barber's father is a mathematician, proficient in computers, and believes that everything can be calculated using computer equations, such as the thickness of the ice surface of the small lake in front of the door. Before Christmas, Barber wanted to go ice skating, and his dad calculated that the thickness of the ice present could withstand a person of 227kg. So he put on the skates his father gave him for Christmas and went to play on the ice, but the ice broke and Barber was buried at the bottom of the lake.

My favorite among the ten films, and the one I watched the most with chest tightness. The second half made me almost unable to breathe. After watching it, I took a lot of deep breaths before I recovered. And I'm glad I've only seen it now. If I had read it two years earlier, I doubted whether I would have pushed the window and jumped down after reading it, thanking the Lord for giving me the strength to last forever.
Barber is a very spiritual child. He often asks his father questions such as his soul and where he will go after death. His father was born in a Catholic family, but he no longer believes in God when he grows up. He believes that everything can be calculated by mathematical formulas. All can be explained rationally, so he thought that there was no so-called soul, and told his son that there was nothing after death.
Barber flashed his big beautiful and crystal eyes, and didn't seem to believe what his father said. He went to his aunt who believed in God to verify, and the aunt hugged him gently and said, "God exists, as long as you believe, it's that simple. ." So Barber decided to go to Sunday school at the church. However, before he could know God, because of his father's overconfidence, he fell into the bottom of an extremely cold and dark ice lake.
In the final scene, the father rushes to the altar in the church and hysterically knocks down the altar.

If he really believes in himself, then he should go back and check his procedures. However, at the moment of despair, when he lost his mind and only instinct was left, he chose to fly to the church to destroy the altar. Could it be that what he was muttering was: "God, why are you so cruel?"
Saying so, he The instinct finally believes in God?


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The Fifth Commandment: Murder shall
not murder.
Thou shalt not kill.
Yazek's very dear sister, was run over to death by a driver who had just finished drinking with him one night. The death of his sister makes Yazek decide to kill a man to get revenge. Yazek's defense lawyer was a young man who had just graduated. After listening to Yazek's description of the motive for the murder, he was puzzled. How difficult it is to judge accidental cases arising from personal temperament with abstract legal knowledge! The young lawyer despaired of a fair justice system while watching Yazek hanged.

The day Yazek decided to kill, happened to be the day when the young lawyer was promoted to a lawyer after 4 years of study and 4 years of practice. He said to the examiner: Some people think the current legal system is too harsh, but I don't. Look, since Cain committed the first murder, no punishment has ever made human beings truly repent and stay away from sin.
This sentence is the most shocking sentence in the movie. Cain, the son of Adam, the ancestor of mankind, killed his own brother Abel because of jealousy. This is the first murder we know of in history, but this is not the original sin. Original sin is known to all. Cain's mother Eve could not resist temptation and stole the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Since then, there has been an insurmountable gulf between man and God. God has used many methods to hope that mankind will be reconciled with him, and even punished the mankind he loves with all kinds of torture. As a result, as the young lawyer said, no punishment can completely wake up human beings. So God sent Jesus Christ to bear all the sins of mankind with his perfect body, and to influence the stubborn mankind through the education of love.
God has not yet succeeded completely, and we have failed from the beginning.

A lawyer who thinks that any punishment is not enough to punish evil, in the first lawsuit of his life, his head was beaten with blood, and it was not that he lost the debate, but the justice of justice that broke him in the end. sex. While he believes that punishment cannot bring back the good side of human nature, he finds that the law makes the last remnants of human nature annihilated. The true feelings and struggles of people's hearts are of no importance at all. As long as you kill people, you must be hanged alive.
Law, like morality, can never judge all people fairly.


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Outstanding director, does not define truth, does not define moral standards, does not give you a clear ending. He presents the truth in front of you, and you find the true meaning of life by yourself. When searching, I always find it difficult, but when I finally find it, I suddenly find that the truth is so simple and direct.
It has never been found, because people are always too confident and believe too much in human wisdom, which is the greatest ignorance.

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