The proposition of "faith" that the film wants to discuss is too high and too imaginary, so "the priest" is regarded as the witness of "faith", and the experience of the priest is used to witness the crisis facing faith.
The priest admired the famous painting at the home of a local tyrant. The local tyrant suddenly said that this painting is nothing to me. I can throw it in the ground and pee now, and then he did it. This kind of behavior is unacceptable. On the one hand, I sigh that it’s too bad for money. More on the other hand, human beings will always have admiration for art, nobleness, and classics. When you stand in huge Under the Pyramid of Khufu, will you be in awe of the wisdom of the ancestors? The local tyrant no longer feels this, nor does he have any sense of life, as he said after his line "I have a career, money, and family, but I don't care about them, I can completely leave everything overnight." If you lose your respect for things, you don’t care about everything. If you don’t care, you lose the goal of survival, the meaning of existence, and the emptiness of your heart. Is this a lack of faith?
The priest was hunted down just because he was innocent, which made people feel ridiculous about the murderer's ambiguous moral principles. From another perspective, faith is the pursuit of a certain outlook on life, and outlook on life divides people’s behavior into good and evil, what can be done, and what can’t be done...that is, the principle of doing things, the principle is vague, that is, the lack of faith .
As for how to solve "difficulty in belief", the film also provides a direction: face life instead of avoiding it. Just as the priest finally returned to the town from the airport, if you want to solve the problem, don't run away, leave the airport and come back! No matter if it is death or something else.
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