Bergman's "Winter Light" is touching the bewildering corner of my heart at this time. The protagonist of the film is a rural pastor who preaches the word of God in the synagogue and blesses others, but his heart is full of doubts, unbelief and indifference to God. But it aroused the same anxiety and confusion in his heart, and he was also 'deeply afraid that what he believed was just a dream and a lie in the end'. Where is God? But 'what's the point of our life without God? Why continue this life? 'The members left in confusion and disappointment, and ended their lives by the river. The era in the movie is the era of the rise of atheistic China. In the words of the movie, the people there grew up in hatred. On the European continent, people have doubts about their beliefs, and only the old lady came to the church religiously, because when life is approaching the end, the best choice is probably to continue what you believe in and believe in the hope in it. And what about the others? There were a few people scattered around in the church, including an atheist female teacher who was madly in love with the pastor, and a pipe organ player who kept looking at the watch in the piano, hoping that the program would end soon. The pastor's gloomy face, performing official announcements, serving the sacrament with a blank face, and rushing to deal with the news of the member's suicide after hearing the news of the member's suicide, there is a terrible silence in the process, the member's wife's extraordinary calm, this Everything seems so cold in this winter service, where is God?
However, at the end of the film, Bergman seems to see a glimmer of light. Before the afternoon worship service began, the bell ringer lit the candles in the church, which seemed to take a long time. He talked to the pastor about his recent feeling of reading the Bible. He said that his recent physical discomfort made him feel that the final pain of Christ's death was not physical, but spiritual. When he was crucified and the disciples who had followed him for three years scattered, Peter, who had sworn heartily, also denied the Lord, but what pained him most was not feeling God on the cross, "My God, my God. , why have you forsaken me?" God's complete silence at this moment was the greatest pain that Christ suffered. When the simple bell ringer, with sincerity in his eyes, spoke word by word about the suffering of Christ he felt, the pastor seemed shocked... When
the time for worship came, the pastor decided to start as usual, even though there was only one female teacher below. people. The light fell on the pastor's face, wondering if he really felt or regained his confidence, and he began to declare 'God's glory all over the land...'
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