This is a surreal work. The world view of the film is set as: God lives in a high-rise building in Brussels, which is a floor isolated from the world, and he controls everything in the world through a computer. Living with him, his wife and ten-year-old daughter, the eldest son JC went down to earth many years ago to preach and now he can only be attached to a sculpture.
The whole movie is full of banter, humor and epic. The little girl can't bear her father's brutality, so she sends the death date to everyone's mobile phone, and then runs away from home to gather the six disciples to write "Super New Testament". The first highlight of the film is the subversion of the image of God. God is violent and irritable, which is typical of machismo. He takes pleasure in creating disasters in the world, such as floods, train derailments and air crashes. He also specially wrote the "universal human dilemma" laws, such as Law No. 2127: The ideal sleep time is always ten minutes longer than the actual time.
The second highlight is the gender transition. The preacher changed from Jesus to his sister Ija. At the end of the film, the computer that controls the world is also taken over by the Virgin who is full of girlish hearts. This is a metaphor for the rise of feminism. When the traditional religious content is far behind the development of the times, conflicts and contradictions will continue to emerge. In our era, the Bible may need to add some new content . This is also one of the themes of this film. Ija is not a new religion. The six disciples she gathered are a supplement to the twelve, and her super new testament is also a supplement.
So from the new six Gospel stories we can see what is missing in traditional religion or what discrimination is causing today. The way of Yabu Dao is to listen to the unique music in everyone's heart, and then weave a dream with the heart music, breaking the shackles in everyone's heart.
The first disciple was Aureli who lost her left arm at a subway station. The holy word she recorded in the book is: life is like an ice skating rink, and wrestling is inevitable. The second disciple is Jean-Claude, who was once a great explorer who loves adventure, but now he is stuck in day-to-day work, "from the mountains, lakes and seas but confined to the kitchen and love day and night". The third disciple is Marco, the "erotic maniac" whose chains are the lover of his dreams he met on the beach as a child.
The fourth disciple is the killer Francois, he is married but he doesn't love his wife, he is addicted to killing and can't understand the feeling of love. The fifth disciple is Martina, who falls in love with the circus gorilla, and is also the product of a failed marriage, hiding her true self forever. The sixth disciple is Willie, a little boy who dreams of becoming a girl.
Lust, marginal groups, LGBT, race, feminism, self, too many propositions are integrated into these six stories. In reality, many issues are difficult to advance. In Western society, it is due to religious concepts, and in China, it is due to traditional concepts. I have always thought that some social problems can be solved through education. As long as a generation is well educated, when they become the mainstay of society, this kind of change will be promoted. It was later discovered that this was not the case. Ideas were born from thousands of years of thinking inertia, from the dross of classic works passed down from generation to generation.
The Super New Testament changed the perspective, no longer writing from the perspective of the daughter of God, but writing the disciples' own stories and their own gospels. This is another metaphor, your destiny no longer depends on the creator above, no longer bound by ignorant and decadent social rules, but comes from your inner true self, from the desire for happiness in the moment. The nearness of death becomes less important, and when this awareness arises, the authority of God collapses.
In the movie, God also came to the world to bring his little daughter back to heaven, but he was just a bad-tempered middle-aged uncle after leaving the computer. So he was beaten up for jumping in line at a church meal, where people were praying to him. God's wife, who entered the computer room to clean, restarted the computer inadvertently, and since then took over the role of God, transforming the world with her girlish heart.
God is a girl.
It's actually very difficult to grasp such an imaginative script. If you are not careful, it will teach you too much. I am very happy that it is a movie with humor that makes people very comfortable to watch. Even the soundtrack is as reassuring as ever. She must be It will become one of the first choices of French movies for many years later.
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