According to media reports, Korean Christian groups have so far sent 16,616 missionaries overseas, second only to the United States in the world. It's not that the people in these regions need Koreans to preach, but that Korean institutions need to maintain their presence in these extremely dangerous areas. The religious development of Korea has so far been extremely mature and complete, and a set of operating systems and rules has been formed. Some netizens said that when the plane flew over Seoul, South Korea, they saw many spires - churches, accounting for about one-tenth of the whole building. Not to mention whether it is wise and appropriate for the Korean church to send personnel to some extremely religious countries to carry out missionary behaviors, what I have always doubted is whether faith in religion will inevitably lead to salvation? This point seems to be more profoundly expounded in the camera lens of Li Changdong in "Miryang".
The story is very simple and clear. Shen Ai, who lost her husband, brought her son to live in Miryang, the hometown of her husband, and lived a stable life at first. She was quiet and cowardly and opened a small piano classroom; Teacher, and did well in the speech contest; the shop owner of the auto repair shop was interested in Shen Ai and took care of him everywhere. He learned that Shen Ai wanted to buy real estate and introduced a familiar boss to him. Disaster is approaching from here. The son was kidnapped, but Shen Ae did not see his son come back after paying the ransom, and the murderer was found quickly - the film was less than an hour at this time, and under the foreshadowing of the previous hour, Li Cangdong slowly turned the focus to Shen Ae. The redemption is near and stands still. So we see Shin Ae timidly evading after the murderer is caught; face expressionless to her crying mother-in-law at the cremation ceremony of her son; mockingly when the pharmacist tells her that there is the Lord in a ray of sunshine Laughing: "What's in here, there's nothing in here!"; Finally, the pain she had been repressing so hard was surging, she shouted loudly at the death registry, and she wept in her heart in the revered carols and the preaching of the pastor , the priest sympathetically stroked the top of her head, and she gained temporary peace like a baby. In the dozens of minutes that followed, Shin Ae kept her expression full of joy, believing in the peace that was not forsaken by God. An Ning's panic when she saw the murderer's daughter being beaten was replaced. She almost bumped into a couple crossing the street: "Is it okay to kill someone and say sorry?" This sentence made Shen Ai think about how to deal with it. Tolerance and forgiveness have always been advocated in the teachings, she decided to imprison the murderer and told the other party that she had forgiven him, but she didn’t know that the other party also received God’s help in prison, and the whole person looked good and had a peaceful mind. The unforgivable man said frankly, "God has forgiven me." Shin Ae collapsed.
Li Cangdong's method is most vividly reflected in this point. Shen Ai is close to religion out of self-salvation. Psychologically, she converges religion with her own individual, and creates a psychological advantage of the difference between the saved and the unsaved. , The people who were redeemed by God repaid the "unsaved" lost souls with virtue in order to reflect their magnanimity and kindness. This is such a tearful and thought-provoking story, but Li Cangdong did not stop at this "natural" plot, Shen said. Ai looks at the person who is as calm and peaceful as her behind the bars. He doesn't need Shen Ai's forgiveness at all, because God has already forgiven him, and Shen Ai's trust in religion seems to support this "imbalance between good and evil". Accomplices, beliefs, collapsed in an instant. So at the rally, she secretly played the background music of "It's all fake, love is fake", and left the scene with a sarcastic expression; The car repair shop owner Kim turned to seduce the priest who had been guiding her, trying to make the reality clearer and more painful; she picked up a stone and threw it at the window glass where the church members held a prayer meeting for her. She is like a cynical female fighter, eager to defy all authority and ritual that has "redemption" her. But trampling on everything doesn't make things any better, Shin Ae has serious mental problems...
Running through the film are two key words: pain and redemption. Pain is the axiom of the world, everyone suffers, but the pain here is the pain of bereavement in a close relationship. I don't deny that pain can be tolerated and gradually worn away - if you are very strong - but if you are short-term. Bearing huge and irreversible pain in time, enough to destroy the soul, how can people be saved and happy? - This kind of happiness refers not only to the proper treatment of the body, but also to the stability and peace of the mind. Many people give the answer naturally: faith or religion. However, in the face of intense pain and doubt, the so-called religions and beliefs that touch the soul, can the salvation of the soul achieve a profound improvement and purification effect, that is, true salvation, or is it just a soothing Durendine? Shen Ai was facing the pain of losing her husband and son, and often had nightmares about her son being kidnapped. She picked up the phone and frantically pleaded, please let my son Jun Er answer the phone, please. Suddenly, I will be stunned, ah, my son has been killed. The room was empty and dark without sunlight. The church is completely different, like a big warm family. Everyone shares their feelings and experiences of the Lord, and spends it together on her birthday. The justice and mercy represented by God penetrated into her heart, no matter how painful it is. will be abandoned by the Lord. But in Shin Ae's heart, the broad sense of salvation for the whole was broken by her inability to forgive her. Was it because Shin Ae misunderstood the Lord's teachings, or did Shin Ae only regard religion as a refuge from the wind and rain from the very beginning? And the existence of this sanctuary cannot even guarantee the dignified heaven built by itself? Shen Ae went from bewildered to deeply convinced and then turned his back on religion, stabbed into the blind spot of "religious redemption", making certain religions appear shallow and hypocritical at once. And behind her, the car repair shop owner Jin, who has been guarding her, seems to represent another meaning of "salvation" - that is, the worldly life, which is plain and simple, just like the sunshine you see every day. But this kind of redemption never entered Shen Ae's heart.
At the end of the film, Boss Jin, who was influenced by Shin Ai, had the habit of going to church regularly. These two kinds of "redemption" were finally combined, and for ordinary and simple people like Boss Jin, the effect was excellent. As for Shen Ai, she still fled when she met the murderer's daughter again - the road to "redemption" belonging to such a hurt soul still has a long, long way to go...
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