A rare ticket at the Shanghai International Film Festival. The SFC Hengshan store has a very good environment and is almost full. Black-and-white film remakes also work well. After watching the various special effects now, watching black and white movies has a special literary and quiet feeling. However, this also has higher requirements for the plot, themes, ideas, actors' acting skills, and film skills of the film. 3 and a half stars overall. The heroine is indeed very beautiful, and she smiles like a virgin, but she is not a qualified believer. Personally, I think that the heroine's belief is too thin, weak and fragile.
When she was proposed by her uncle, she only felt surprised and astonished, but did not realize the danger, otherwise she would not be dazed. Although she was unsuccessful, the heroine only wanted to escape the next day. After her uncle committed suicide, the heroine actually felt guilty and no longer wanted to go back to the monastery. I don't know if the heroine thinks she's guilty, if she feels defiled (though not, not sure if the heroine knows), or if she thinks she's what caused a man to kill himself. And when the abbot came to see her, hoping for her complete confession, she refused. If you really feel guilty, why not repent? Still ashamed? This is the first glimpse of the weakness of the heroine. Then she said she couldn't go back to the monastery and wanted to do something on her own. At the time, I thought that the heroine just wanted to stick to her beliefs, but then looking back, maybe the heroine needed to keep her pure mentality in her faith through these things? Maybe it's a little dark to think so...
And for a long time in the middle, the heroine's rescue of those beggars fully demonstrated that it is indeed a very stupid behavior to have only compassion without wisdom. Maybe people are really born with different habits. Christianity believes that it is the original sin of human beings, Buddhism believes that ignorance in reincarnation leads to past habits, and Confucian Mencius believes that human nature is inherently evil. In any case, even if everyone deserves to be saved, it doesn't mean that salvation is immediately available. Whether it is the need to purify sin karma according to Buddhism or the repentance of Christianity, it is necessary. The hostess provided these beggars with food, clothing, housing and transportation, but did not provide them with a way to repent or change their minds. No job, no teaching, only prayer and food and clothing can save this bunch of people who have become beggars? I really don't know what the heroine has learned in the monastery for so many years. In the end, their betrayal also made the heroine finally give up her faith and fall into the arms of her cousin. Maybe I can't understand the pain of people who have lost their faith, but maybe it's just that the heroine's understanding of faith is not in place. If it is so simple to give up, it may not necessarily be called true faith. It's like throwing a thorn into the fire when your hand is pricked by thorns. However, don't you know that thorns have thorns before they prick their hands? And is the secular path chosen by the heroine after giving up her faith reliable? Probably not. Cousin's unmarriage and threesome, the heroine's final expression is also a look of surprise and confusion... No matter what the road to redemption is, it is full of thorns. I don't think the film wants to say that religion can't be redeemed, but that inappropriate beliefs or religious behaviors can't lead to true redemption, and even bring disaster. What is faith? Maybe it is the ability to move forward even after truly recognizing its difficulties. The so-called true warriors dare to face the tragic reality. It is also a belief.
So I actually don't like the heroine. After all, she may be a girl who is not familiar with the world, but after being hit by reality, she can't resist or cheer up. For her, belief was a religion, not a spiritual force. In reality, how can we be better than her.
Speaking of which, there really isn't a single character in the movie that you like. The heroine is simple, weak and confused, the maid is realistic (helping the master to rape others without distinguishing between good and evil), but she is also very stupid (fell under her cousin's suit pants), and the cousin is full of passion for worldly wealth (actively develop his father) The wasteland left to him), the uncle is a lonely psychopath in his old age (foot fetish and rape), and the beggars have no good qualities. Humanity is so ugly, and only those who can persist in redemption are true saints. And apart from Christ, apart from Buddha, we are all human beings.
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