At the beginning, the film thought it was a documentary similar to humanities. I felt quite boring and wanted to turn off sleep. As a result, he mentioned religious issues. As a very good priest, he was the first one when his child was born prematurely and miraculously survived. It was not God but the doctor who thanked him, which made him doubt his beliefs, and then very happily said that he did not believe in God, and his change immediately aroused my interest.
Because I have taken a course on Chinese natural philosophy, I sometimes talk about these things, which is quite interesting. Actually, although many times we can't find the answer ==. In Western philosophy, God is supernatural, and morality is established by God. Not believing in God means that there is no morality. This is very different from the theory of the generation mechanism of morality in Chinese philosophy. Confucius is similar to accepting the existence of morality for granted without explaining why people follow morality. Other pre-Qin thinkers such as Mencius, Laozi and Mozi tried to Morality falls on the basis of "heaven" and "natural". Because of nature, it will naturally follow Tao... (Here is a rough talk, don't be impatient, the next paragraph will not be) In short, people are living We need to follow certain rules to do the right thing, and this needs to be assisted by "rules" and "the reason or power that can implement the rules", otherwise we use what to say that we did the right thing or we are ethical Woolen cloth? So some people will try to assist "their rules" with religion, gods, and the supernatural, while others will try to assist them from the perspective of humans and nature.
When we can understand the connotation of the above paragraph, we can better perceive the information that the movie wants to convey to us (the information is certain, I will not tell you because I don’t know if it’s right, but I can tell you Describe what I feel)-God is dead!
God, the Bible, and the devil can be used as an excuse for ordinary people's blindfolds, money-giving tools, and excuses to satisfy their own desires (not just sex, but also to manipulate other people, etc.). Do you think they really have faith? Are they really believing in God? In fact, sitting in the audience, the faith we can see is nothing but the obsession in their hearts. The shadows that are imaginary through their own feelings appear in their hearts, but they insist on calling them God, God. Who can prove that the "God" in his heart is the God he thinks he loves? What can be proved by proficiency in the Bible, citing scriptures, and even exorcism? Just like people have been criticizing test-oriented education, being able to do a good job of test papers can't prove any quality. There will always be people with a pen in one hand and blood in the other, such as XXX.
Those more horrifying clips gave me more than just a visual impact. Thoughts about religion rushed into my mind time and time again, believing in God, but deep down, I didn’t believe in God. What happened to God? ! What God can do seems to be nothing more than the lord pouring out like a lotus flower from the pastor’s mouth, begging for your forgiveness lord, I believe in your lord, please love my lord, please save my lord, if you can’t save her, I will Die for her... Amen... Nothing... God is dead, and the devil's carnival is in heaven. In contrast, whether he believes in God or not, a protagonist who can think rationally can still withstand the threat of life, trying to save Nell and even Louis again and again. Isn't this the image of the savior that God should have? In fact, there is no such thing as a god like a puppet. What really exists is the "God" in everyone's heart. Relentlessly stretched out his hand to pull back the innocent life struggling on the verge of collapse, even if it was at the expense of life, even if it would trample on his beliefs.
Some people say that the last scene of the protagonist holding the cross to the sea of fire is that he re-believes in God. I think it’s a little pale and reluctant for the protagonist who has gone through so many twists and turns. It’s better to say that he has recovered his faith—saving people. He did not hesitate at all costs, and this coincided with the spirit of Jesus dying for the world, so to some extent, he eventually became Jesus.
One more thing I want to mention is that religion is more or less authoritarian. Even Buddhism requires you to see through everything at last, Wukong everything, without worry, without desire and desire. And Christianity, in my opinion, has more shackles, for example, homosexuality is not recognized by God. In the Western colonial activities, Christianity was introduced, followed by the "civilization of the barbarians." Indigenous people should abandon their religion, their gods, and their way of life, and instead accept the so-called civilized education in the West and the Western gods. , And the colonists took this compulsion for granted under the brainwashing of Christianity and other factors, and believed that it was a mission entrusted to them by God. God would not allow resources but not development, or "barbarians" but not "enlightenment." There are... all kinds of cultural coercion and religious coercion. From some perspectives, Christianity is no better than a cult. Of course, I am not underestimating these religions, I just emphasize that they are compulsive and authoritarian in some respects.
×Finally: If you want to watch a horror movie, you can ignore this movie. If you want to see the struggle and "Nirvana" of human nature under religion, welcome to watch it.
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