Ghost director Jacques van Dommel, whose most well-known masterpiece is also his debut "Little Hero Toto". The film tells a very moving story, which won him a worldwide reputation, winning the Cannes International Film Festival Golden Camera for Best Director Debut, and also winning the European Film Festival Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Screenplay Actor, Best Cinematography Award. Made Dormer an overnight success.
And this time, he, who has always maintained a childlike heart and is very imaginative, has taken religion again, and even turned the original serious religion into a black humorous comedy.
The film introduces God himself from the perspective of the daughter of God: living in a Brooklyn apartment with neither exit nor entrance, three bedrooms and one living room with a kitchen and laundry room. As for God himself, he is a smoking, sloppy, bald, violent middle-aged uncle who hates the world, and just uses a computer to create and control the world.
In the eyes of this little daughter of God: God is scum.
God created the world and created human beings just to relieve his distress and play with his own playthings with relish. Because he is tired of the world, he misleads mankind to start wars "in the name of God", such as the Crusades.
He also enjoys creating disasters of all kinds, such as fires, car accidents, and plane crashes, and has formulated thousands of laws called "The Universal Dilemma of Humanity." For example:
Rule 2127: The ideal sleep time is always ten minutes longer than the actual time
. Rule 2129: When you dip your body in the bathtub, the phone will always ring
at the right time. Law 2126
: It's always the washed dishes that break.
Rule 2128: When you line up, it's always the other line that moves fast.
As for God's wife, she is also a 100% sloppy woman, fat and bloated, who never expresses any opinion, spends her days with embroidery and baseball cards, and always lives under the authority of her husband, God.
The Son of God, Jesus as we know him, called 12 disciples to help him save the world because he couldn't stand what his father did. However, Jesus felt that twelve disciples were not enough, and they could only form a pair of ice hockey.
So when God's daughter, even his sister, wanted to call disciples to help her save the world against God, Jesus gave the advice to call six more disciples, because eighteen is the mother's favorite number, and eighteen people Can form a baseball team.
As for the method of selecting disciples, Jesus said proudly: As long as you pretend to understand and show a little miracle, no one will doubt it. After the disciples were selected, they were to write these stories into the "Super New Testament". The sister who couldn't write was embarrassed again. Jesus said again very proudly: Just find a writer. You think the "New Testament" is all about it. I wrote it myself.
In this way, the little daughter who has prepared everything will notify all human beings themselves of the death time of all human beings in the world through mobile phone text messages through God's computer before escaping from God's small room.
After all this was done, the little daughter of God climbed out through the washing machine of the laundry room and came to the world of human life, and began the task of selecting six disciples.
The first disciple, Aureli, was a beautiful, solitary woman who decided that everything would remain the same after learning the time of her own death. And she has remained alone and sadly a disabled person with a prosthetic left hand. Her movement is the beautiful Handel. God's daughter gave her a beautiful dream.
The second disciple was Jean-Claude, who turned out to be a nine-to-five office worker who was exhausted by endless work every day. After learning the time of his death, he sat down directly under the park bench beside him at the time, and continued until death came. His movement was Lamo's "Bird in Autumn", so he began a journey with a bird.
The third disciple, Mark, was a self-proclaimed "sex maniac", and it all started when he was nine years old when he saw a very sexy woman on the beach. After learning the date of his death, he decided to take out all his savings and start living with a woman every day. His theme movement is Bethel's "Oh, Solitude".
The fourth disciple, François, was obsessed with death and called himself a "killer". Bought a gun when he learned the date of his death and shot humans at will. Because he felt that if he didn't shoot to death, it was because the person's time of death had not yet come; if he was shot to death, it was not his fault either. His theme movement is Schubert's "Death and the Maiden".
The fifth disciple was Martina, the wife of a wealthy man who lived a delicate and lonely life, often finding male prostitutes to dispatch boredom. Her theme movement is circus music. So she goes to the circus to meet gorillas who have been in captivity and fall in love with each other. In the end, she bought the gorilla home and stayed together.
The sixth disciple was a little boy named Willie. Frail and sickly, he has been living under a lot of pressure since he was a child. After learning the time of her own death, she decided to become a girl. So he started wearing girls' clothes happily to school. His theme movement is "The Sea" by Charles Denet.
In the process of finding all six disciples for the youngest daughter, God followed her footsteps and came to the human world. It's just that the sloppy Uncle God was mistaken for a homeless man when he came to the world, and was beaten by a street hooligan and went straight to the hospital. The starving God even had to go to church to get a relief meal in order to survive. In the end, God was sent to Uzbekistan because he didn't have an ID card to become a factory employee.
In the end, God failed to return to his own world, and the mother, the goddess, restarted the computer and became the person in control of the world. In the goddess' world, the sky is covered with colorful flower patterns, and the gravity of the earth is extremely small. Humans can also live in the depths of the ocean. The world seems to be a better place.
The whole movie has a big brain hole and tells the most ideal life state of human beings in the most interesting way. In addition, the communication without a single shot in the film is as ingenious as oil painting, and the theme movement corresponding to each disciple is also very appropriate.
The most important proposition in movies is always: how will you spend the rest of your life when you know the date of your death. In the movie, the daughter of God makes this proposition appear in front of everyone in the most direct way, so that everyone has the right to choose their own life.
Some people in the movie think it's a prank and choose not to believe it; some people are afraid of the imminent death and start to take cautious precautions; some people start suicide attempts because they have a long life; some people choose to live in the rest of their lives Do something meaningful and enjoyable in your life; more people just go on living as usual.
On the surface, the story of the film is a satire on religion and society, but in fact it is a strong yearning for a better life. Humans who know their own time of death are their own gods, and everything they do in the length of their lives is their own choice.
For us now, we can put aside the premise of clarifying the date of our death, if we can follow our inner choices as in the movie, rather than the rules of society, perhaps a more ideal life and a better society It will also end up like in the movie.
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