The audience is always arguing about "who is the good guy and who is the bad guy", just like arguing between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the United States and Russia, the Wang government and the Chiang government. Supporters use the benefits they bring as arguments to cover up their self-interest, while the supporters often live up to the expectations of both sides, possessing the inevitable ethical complexity of a modern political system.
Yes, welcome to the modern age. Here, those in power never bring to the table the full motives of their actions, they only let people know what they want to know, thus maintaining a coherent historical narrative. The agents of various faiths, be it Christianity, shamanism, or those with the surname of the society or the capital, all want to turn "faith" into their own proper names, and recycle the "profit" they give as "letter".
As we have seen, all the "natives" in the film are nihilists in their beliefs. Like most viewers, all they want is a conclusion: can this belief save us/is the person representing this belief a good person? In their logic, these two issues are seen as one and the same, but in the case of the agents of faith, they are by no means equal. There is a fatal gulf between the agent of faith and those he seeks to court: a neutral can never put his Isaac on the altar.
The so-called "crying" is the cry of the outcasts: they are caught between faith and faith, they are bestowed with grace, they are brought to disaster, but they cannot enter any of them. "Seven Samurai" will tell the audience that the peasants always win, but that's a lie, unless you see living like a dog as victory.
"You won't believe me anyway," is an attitude in itself that is blatant contempt by agents of faith. "Faith" is like a closed door, dividing the safety zone and expelling all "unbelievers" to the first layer of hell, and because of this, "faith" itself will also be lost in this foolish, false In a world where "everything is a routine" created by decoration and calculation, it's like the Japanese who spoke the words of Jesus turned into devils.
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