Choosing to forgive is also a fateful helplessness [Brief Comment]

Kristofer 2022-03-25 09:01:19

Down again, little is known.

I know the pastor is in bad health, he stands by his faith, and the people in the parish are hostile to him.

My grasp of the film's content is empty due to contextual differences and a shallow understanding of Christian theology; but the director embeds a large number of priests' inner monologues or attempts to create an extremely repressive world of subjective influence, in today's work Rare, but always a little high and low.

Also, I like the revealing of the final ending, just like the line in the film "The pastor should endure silently", the pastor still chooses to forgive when he dies, which is a kind of helplessness and sadness of the nature of destiny.

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Diary of a Country Priest quotes

  • Curé d'Ambricourt: You don't bargain with God. You yield to Him unconditionally. But I assure you, there aren't separate realms for the living and the dead, just the Kingdom of God and we are in it.

  • Curé d'Ambricourt: What madness.

    Countess: Forgive me.

    Curé d'Ambricourt: God is no torturer. He wants us to be merciful with ourselves.

    Countess: What's done is done. I can't help it now.

    Curé d'Ambricourt: Peace be with you.