The movie "Les innocentes" tells a story:
1945 World War II ended , French Red Cross female physician Mathilde treated wounded soldiers in Warsaw, and one night, she was invited to the convent to treat nuns who were about to give birth. The doctor entered the monastery to see the horrific truth. The monastery was invaded by the Soviet Red Army during the war, and many nuns were sexually assaulted and even pregnant. Not only were the nuns traumatized mentally and physically, but their faith was shaky. However this scandal is not allowed to be made public...
Who are the "innocents"?
To God, all people are sinful and no one is innocent.
The first is the universality of the misery that grips the world.
When the war raged, the secluded and devout nuns in the monastery were not spared. Doctor Mathilde, who was a bystander, was also nearly devastated by the Soviet army.
One of the nuns in the film said: "At first you were like a child, holding your father's hand and feeling safe, but that moment came, and I think it will always come, when your father walks away and you're lost , alone in the dark, you cry, but no one listens to you, even if you are prepared, you are still caught off guard, he breaks your heart, this is the cross we carry, behind all the joy is the cross."
Here, she shows people's contradictory state of mind in suffering. She is very clear: "Faith is 24 hours of doubts and 1 minute of hope."
Faith is not a shield that people have to withstand the suffering of the world, it is what people rely on in suffering. hope of survival.
In war, nuns are innocent. However, before God, they are as guilty as the evil Soviet army, the humanitarian doctor Mathilde, and all the people on earth.
The church has its inescapable predicament and its inescapable guilt. The nuns also have the difficulty and prescriptiveness of existence that human beings possess, and they also embody the manifest wrath of God.
In order to maintain the reputation of the monastery and maintain the canon, the abbot of the monastery abandoned the newborn baby.
Faced with the nun's questioning, she replied: "I converted my child to God." However, she also knew her own fault, so she later admitted: "I cursed myself to save you."
Here, the righteousness of man replaces the righteousness of God, The salvation of man in the place of God must be in vain.
The nun's mother who learned the baby was abandoned committed suicide.
The fault of the church is manifested here.
Here, the baby is innocent, and the nuns as mothers are innocent, they are only guilty of God, and they are innocent in the face of man, religion, and the world. No one has the right to nail them to the pillar of shame, and no religious canon has the right to accuse them.
A bruised reed, God will not break.
Here, religion and the church show an irreversible trend of demise. God's mercy and salvation are manifested.
At the end, the nuns who took off their robes returned to the world, and the monastery became an orphanage.
The church is also redeemed when it realizes its own weakness and God's strength, admits its own lies and God's faithfulness, and realizes that its rites and canons have meaning only as metaphors.
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