Time has settled, Ethan Hawke is still handsome

Sam 2021-12-27 08:01:54

First of all, let's talk about what the Reformed Church is. The Reformed Church is one of the oldest tribes of Christianity. It was founded by the Dutch in the 17th century when they colonized the East Coast of the United States, so it is also called the Dutch Reformed Church. This church believes in ancient and primitive Christian doctrines. It is very traditional and temperate. It can also be seen from this film that their lives are very low-key and simple. Forget it is broken.

The church's development to this day, the main scope of activities is still limited to a small part of the United States and Canada, almost the area of ​​the original Dutch colonization, it can be seen that there has not been much expansion in the past 300 years. At present, there are 300,000 church members. Our town has more people than other people, and the influence is greater than it. We are the money church. Congregations of the Reformed Church are also mainly distributed in the above-mentioned areas. Headquartered in New York, it is an official organization recognized by the United States and the World Federation of Christians. This is almost the case with regard to the Reformed Church.

Our handsome old man Ethan Hawke serves as a pastor in a Reformed church in the middle of nowhere.

Hawke, as a pastor, has a Reformed taste. He dresses plainly, uses pen to record, and doesn’t say any unnecessary words. Even when facing followers who need his enlightenment, he doesn’t talk much. He mainly starts from his own experience and confides with others, but his words are very restrained because of him. The experience is very painful. It is a thorn stick. Every time you talk, you put the thorn stick on your body. The more you talk, the deeper the thorn. If you watch this movie, you will find that my analogy has ulterior motives.

Like Hawke’s temperament, the film’s tone is dark, restrained, slow and delicate, but in the middle and later stages, the director began to let himself go. After a young couple intervened in Hawke’s life like stagnant water, he changed his view of this old age. The view of the church, at least the view of a few elders, has changed sincerely and in anger. For a long time, Hawke was wearing dark clothes sitting in a dark corner and chattering. Facing the reprimands of the elders, he didn't dare to stand up. He couldn't stand up behind him, intending to let his light illuminate these saucy crows. .

Hawke's face was gloomy, and at first glance he was a keen, less-spoken and more thoughtful person. Although I did not pay much attention to him, only in terms of the movies I have watched, I feel that he has always been lying on his body with a literary and melancholic temperament, starting from "Death Poetry Society", to "The First Time", to "The End of the End" "Earth", the fateful melancholy atmosphere lingering around him has been lingering. Only in Richard Lintlake's "Trilogy of Love" and "Boyhood", he is happy. Maybe he likes to show his melancholy side in commercial movies, while swaying his sunny side in literary films. I don't know what kind of person it is in real life. There is no news.

Hawke has always been very restrained. The first is his temperance. He became a talented young man. He was a handsome boy in his youth who could fully become a big star in the spotlight. However, he has not been active in the field of literary and artistic films. He is called literary and artistic. Male god, but he himself probably doesn't know this title. Even a well-received commercial film like "At the End of the Day" is only spread word of mouth among movie fans, because its dark setting does not conform to the values ​​of mainstream movie viewers. Secondly, his role is also very restrained. He basically doesn't see that kind of erosive and unruffled role in his private life, and he always feels clean from the inside out.

Probably because of the temperance of his life, the 48-year-old Ethan Hawke still exudes charm and handsomeness in the film "First Reformed", but at the same time, it is inevitable that people feel desperate. Watching such a film is like alcohol sliding over a mouth ulcer with a cracked tooth, slow, painful, and numb. Very unique experience.

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Extended Reading
  • Kellie 2022-04-22 07:01:40

    A priest caught in a deep crisis of faith tries to use extreme means to save the world. The question posed by Schrader is really poignant, why didn't God save the world, and why did God let this God's spokesman also suffer from cancer. How can this problem be solved. The ending really is "Eternal Feminine, Lead Us Ascension". By adding environmental themes, Schrader brought the script to life. What surprised me was that Schrader, who has always been considered to be good at script, gave a very good guidance this time. Whether it was the gloomy tone or the weird camera position, it gave people a great sense of depression. The long push at the beginning until the white church fills the frame, you can't even tell if it's a First Reformed or a terrifying tombstone. The film is full of enclosed spaces with eerie tones, such as toilets. Looking at it, I was really frightened, and my back was chilled.

  • Tressie 2022-03-23 09:02:33

    The combination of religious and environmental themes is probably the one I hate the most. But Ethan Hawke's performance saved some.

First Reformed quotes

  • Michael: You believe in martyrdom, Reverend?

    Reverend Ernst Toller: I'm not sure I know what you mean.

    Michael: The Saints of God, the early Christians who wouldn't renounce their faith? The missionaries who were attacked in the fields of the Lord. Do you believe that they died for a purpose?

    Reverend Ernst Toller: I do.

    Michael: Well, every week, activists are killed trying to protect the environment.

  • Reverend Ernst Toller: Now Michael, I can promise you that whatever despair you feel about bringing a child into this world cannot equal the despair of taking a child from it.