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From a religious perspective, the world today has fallen into the end times. In Buddhism, many people call the current era of the end of the Dharma, because today's world is full of evil, the five desires are blazing, and the karma is everywhere, making people full of resentment. Although Buddhism has a three-time limit, it is said that the Buddha enters the era of Dharma-rectification and accumulates for a thousand years; then enters the era of Dharma and accumulates for five thousand years; and then enters the era of end-dharma, which is said to accumulate for five thousand years or accumulate for one. Ten thousand years. The current year is 2015 and the Buddhist calendar is 2559. It is said that it has only been 1500 years after entering the Dharma era, and 3,500 years have not passed, and it is still far from the era of the end of Dharma. However, the various world conditions in front of us make people feel emotional. The world is going down, people's hearts are destroyed, moral standards are lowered, news of breaking the bottom line occurs from time to time, and there is almost no pure land outside Buddhism. Even in Buddhism, there are many things that people can't understand. There are also many swindlers wearing monk robes, just like the Buddha himself said, "He who destroys me wears my clothes", ordinary people can't see the way, they think they are Buddhist disciples. What's more, there are some so-called monks who have a simple way of doing things. They have not yet found any way, but they dare to believe that "the evil teacher's saying is like the sand of the Ganges". Ordinary people can't tell, they can only lament, "I hope I will be reborn in the U.S. in my next life."
As for Islam, it is full of controversy. Secularism has not yet succeeded. Fundamentalism and other extremist forces have repeatedly risen. The prosperous terrorism has disturbed the rest of the world. Al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Islamic State, and even East Turkistan forces, their extreme behaviors are stunned and unpredictable. They have repeatedly endangered society and become a major public hazard in the world today.
In the Catholic Church, the occurrence of child molestation cases also caused shock. Even the United Nations has issued investigative reports, lashing out at the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church, criticizing the Vatican for not acknowledging the serious consequences and impact of the child molestation case, and failing to take effective measures to protect children from sexual assault. The report pointed out that some children may continue to be abused by clergy. The report points out that tens of thousands of children around the world have been systematically abused by Catholic clergy for many years. Like the American Catholic priest Murphy, who worked in a school for the deaf and dumb in Wisconsin from 1950 to 1974, during which time he was accused of assaulting more than 200 children. In a Jesuit boarding school in Berlin, Germany, it was also revealed that 300 school children had been abused or sexually assaulted. Even the resignation of the Catholic Pope Benedict XVI was rumored to be related to the pressure of the child molestation case.
Religion is supposed to be a clean place, but all major religions are full of such and other unbearables. In the secular world outside of religions, there is even more materialism, and there are too many unbearables and nasty under the sensuality. So, under such circumstances, should a person with a sense of justice and morality stick to himself, or abandon himself, go with the flow, and stay in the world? This question is quite serious, and it is very torturing people's hearts. In fact, almost everyone has such a time of inner struggle. When facing a decision, at that moment, our heart is full of hesitation and struggle. The strong sense of tear makes us unable to make a clear decision. I don't know what to do, I always want to catch something but I can't catch anything, and I can't rely on it.
"Priests in Difficulties" talks about such a theme. A priest full of compassion and justice in his heart, James, fulfilled his duties in the small town of Ireland, guarding the water and soil of the parish. There are majestic mountains, vast fields, and blue seas. The natural conditions seem to be very good, but in sharp contrast, there are a group of primitive and wild residents who do not abide by the laws and do whatever they want. , They have little clergy children who secretly drink wine, young people who join the army with their lives improperly, wives who cheat but shamelessly, butchers who are indifferent and indifferent with a green cap, bankers who are depressed and cynical, wealthy businessmen, and cynical bar owners. , Doctors who see through life, repairmen who are sensitive to racial topics, gay policemen and male prostitutes, etc. They live crudely, full of hostility, no faith, and full of mockery of priests. Even the priest's own daughter could not understand him and was full of complaints. For a normal person to live with them, it really takes some gritty courage and peace of mind. Father James possesses these qualities and even does better. If he is not a clergyman, he can even become a saint. He guarded this small town with a kind of compassion and love that transcended himself, and prayed for the land with God-like love. However, it was such a commendable and good person, the disaster took the initiative to find him.
On a very ordinary day, Father James received a confessor in the confessional. The confessor said that he was fed up with the life in front of him and wanted to make something extraordinary. He wants to kill, but if he kills one or a few people with stains, it won't attract everyone's attention, and if he kills a good person with no shortcomings, and his identity is still a priest, it will definitely cause a sensation. This is the bastard's logic, but he is serious. Father James received death threats, but the killer gave the priest 7 days to meet him on the beach a week later and die.
The whole story we have seen is the countdown to the life of a good man, to see how he spent the last 7 days of his life. We hope that the situation can change, for example, he changed the town, or the town’s conscience found out, or this is just a joke of the killer. We are accustomed to this kind of Hollywood flip, but the truth is cruel. We cruelly watched the priest inevitably go to death weakly. In this process, everything the priest does in every scene is full of sadness, so sad that he can’t help himself. . The process of watching a movie is not easy, but it is depressing.
In the face of death threats, during the countdown to his life, the priest went to visit the church members under the diocese as always to find out who was the murderer. Residents passed by one by one. They lived their lives as usual. There was no change, and there was no sign of any change in the future, and they couldn't see anyone who was abnormal and exposed themselves as a murderer. Only the priest himself is forced to change his destiny. The priest is also a human being. Before death, he was also frightened and so afraid that he drank and vented, lost control of other clergy, and even packed his luggage and wanted to escape. But in the end, when he saw the body of a friend of his at the airport that the staff was indifferent and did not receive the respect he deserved, he was shocked at that moment and chose to stay and face his death. When he arrived at the beach as promised, he saw the real face of the killer. This killer is an ordinary resident in the small town, among the residents mentioned above. The killer said that he was sexually assaulted by clergy when he was a child, leaving a life-long humiliation and changing his life. That's why today's revenge is available to vent his private anger to an innocent priest.
In fact, the English name of the movie is "Calvary", which is translated as "the priest is in trouble" is a free translation, and it is also vulgar. Calvary's original meaning is "Skull and Calvary." Anyone who knows religion knows that Calvary is the place where Jesus died. This film tells the story of the last 7 days of a priest's life. With the addition of the title "Skull and Calvary", the strong meaning of redemption and suffering, the theme and tragedy of the film are immediately revealed. Moreover, the whole story of this film draws on the Passion of the Lord, so the ignorance and ignorance of the residents of the small town can be understood, and what they reflect is also the ignorant public who witnessed the crucifixion in the first place. After all, this is a modern version of the story of suffering and salvation.
In the beginning of the movie, it was written clearly, "If one of the thieves is saved, don't despair; don't infer that another of the thieves will be cursed." But in the movie, the despair is that even if the priest goes to the appointment to die, there is no Who is finally saved, the movie comes to an abrupt end between despair and hope, meaning far-reaching.
In fact, in the real world around us, there are not too many believers, and even fewer believers in Catholicism. If "The Priest Is Difficult" is restricted to a religious film, the meaning will obviously decrease a lot. If the identity of James in the film is not regarded as a priest, but as an ordinary person, the significance of the film will be even greater.
In a modern society where morality is degraded, how can a person with a moral bottom line live better, whether to stick to his moral sense, this problem is very realistic. Once, most of us thought of ourselves very high, but under the guidance of "good people are hard to do" and "rarely confused", we lowered our body bit by bit, and finally one day chose to be exactly like other people. , The peace of mind sinks down. Don’t you know that the bottom line of the whole society is sinking bit by bit, because the good guys do not persist, and then there is nowhere to go, and then there are bad guys who come out first and then go further to break the bottom line, and further drive everyone to The lower bottom of the bottom line fell, forming a terrible "silent spiral". China is currently in such a situation, and we have also seen the fall of a large number of good people, which is embarrassing. Should good people persist? On such topics, it would be better to use another priest's words to answer. The priest's name is Martin Nimora. His words were engraved on the Boston Jewish Holocaust Memorial in the United States. He is well-known throughout the world. Here again:
In Germany,
at first they hunted down communists, and I didn’t speak—because I’m not. Communists;
then they hunted down Jews, but I didn’t speak—because I’m not a Jew;
later they hunted down union members, but I didn’t speak up—because I’m not a union member;
after that they hunted down Catholics, but I didn’t speak ———Because I am a Protestant; in the
end they rushed to me, but no one stood up to speak for me.
The answer lies in this. However, if you want to persevere, you must have a little spirit of suffering. The general public lacks this energy.
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