Diary of a Village Priest

Guadalupe 2022-03-25 09:01:19

#It seems that most good movies will touch on the theme of soul and faith... A young priest full of faith and anticipation came to his rural parish, facing the harshness, slander and complexity of reality, he constantly struggled to persevere, Physically and mentally exhausted, but he never abandoned and questioned God and love, and accepted the coming of death alone and peacefully... #The narrative structure is composed of the contents of the priest's diary, with a large number of narrations and close-up close-ups. The arrangement of the shots (blurring and omitting the environment) allows the audience to walk directly into the heart of the protagonist, focusing on the body movements and facial expressions of the priest. The young priest is frail but can exude an unusually calm and flat light, as if seeing through life The joys and sorrows of life and death...slow calm is the keynote of the overall style, which makes some slightly ups and downs and intense and the plot more prominent. Deafening gunshots take the life of a poor doctor who has lost faith in life; a silent or intense confrontation between a priest and a bereaved lady about God and suffering; a daughter whose criminal emotions are inflated is dependent on the priest and is jealous and hateful, Emotional buildup that could explode at any time.. #Marquise says if there is a place in this or that world that is free from God, if that means suffering death every second, forever, she will take with her His son went to that place and said to God, "Destroy us with your dastardly means!" The priest admitted that he thought so too, but it was not a sign of a weakened faith. Indifference to God is the most terrifying thing, and insisting on faith does not mean being the docile lamb of God. When a man thinks he has suffered the injustice of his fate, he can appeal and appeal to God like Job, or even curse like a marquise. And blatantly challenged, in doing so, the relationship between man and God was transformed into what the theologian Martin Buber called the "me and you" relationship, which brought man closer to God and confirmed faith. The priest made the Marchioness aware of this, and the latter was thus redeemed. This is the original intent of the novel and is also mentioned in the movie.

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Diary of a Country Priest quotes

  • Curé de Torcy: Maybe God meant for you to live in sadness.

  • Curé de Torcy: Avoid the daughter. She's a fiend.

    Curé d'Ambricourt: I won't shut my door to her. Or anyone else, as long as I'm the priest of this parish.