Female Jesus from another angle

Kaela 2022-03-23 09:02:14

I have to say that it is a good movie. Like everyone else, I don’t want to watch it again.

However, after reading some film critics, I feel that everyone's understanding of the film may be slightly biased at one point, or you can try to look at it from another angle, which is Bess's self-talk in church.

The movie was recommended by our European literature teacher. When he told us, he meant that director Russ assumed what would happen if Jesus was a female. In other words, Bess and Jesus are God's children.
So I started looking at it from that perspective. In this way, Bess's performance is normal, she is God's child, she is good at believe. She believes in God, not the church. All her actions cannot be called "reasonable" but are of her own choosing. So Dr. Richardson always thought Bess was a good person, didn't he?
Of course, she is not like Jesus to announce the existence of God, she is just an ordinary woman. But in the end, like Jesus, she died of being spurned by everyone, and she was still covered with scars. Save others with your own supplement. These all have the taste of metaphor Jesus.

It's just alas, I still don't understand this movie, it's so weird. . . What kind of God is the God in this movie? . .

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Extended Reading

Breaking the Waves quotes

  • [first lines]

    Bess McNeill: His name is Jan.

    The Minister: I do not know him.

    Bess McNeill: [coyly] He's from the lake.

    The Minister: You know we do not favor matrimony with outsiders.

    An Elder: Can you even tell us what matrimony is?

    Bess McNeill: It's when two people are joined in God.

  • Jan Nyman: Love is a mighty power, isn't it?