After her husband died in a car accident, Shin Ae moved with her son from Seoul to live in her husband's hometown of Miryang. Soon after her son was kidnapped and torn apart, Shin Ae, who was in agony, converted to Christianity for comfort. But soon after joining the religion, Shen Ae began to question and accuse God. Not only did the healing effect of religion lose, but the pain even doubled. Shin Ae gradually went into madness. Shin Ae is a contradictory individual, and like Kim Yong Ho in "Mints", her own character is flawed. Shin Ae's move to live in Miryang expresses her deep affection for her husband. She came here as a victim of her life, brought her son with her, and opened a piano training classroom to become self-reliant. Moved from Seoul, graduated from a music high school, bereaved, independent and high-minded. This is the character set up by Shin Ae when she first came to Miryang. A high-end background brings an overhead perspective, and a disadvantaged situation brings a moral high point. Walking on the road, I can't help but walk into a stranger's store to make some comments and suggestions, and be sincere. Zong Can brought her a fake certificate and hung it up for her. She insisted that she had never won this award. Hanging up like this was an insult to her professional ethics. But the certificate has not been withdrawn. Shin Ae wanted to fit in here with such a character, but it turned out that when she was doing her hair, she heard others talking about her behavior behind her back. Her outfit might be out of place here. So she began to create public opinion information about investing in real estate, and created an image of herself as rich and with advanced financial awareness. As a result, she lost her son because of vanity. The practice of spontaneously setting up personalities for oneself cannot be judged by good or bad, but a psychological need. Some people need to set themselves up before facing the world. This level of setting brings people a sense of security. and controllability. This persona is not necessarily fake, but it is programmed with specific expectations for feedback from others. Shin Ae is a person who likes to stand on a high point, regardless of morality or behavior, when his younger brother questioned why his brother-in-law betrayed Shin Ae long ago, he still came to live in Miryang. Shin Ae defended her husband, showing a kind of love-crazy forgiveness and generosity. For the pain of losing her husband, Shen Ae's healing method is to use the loss of her husband to create a kind of public opinion protection for herself.
After losing her son, Shin Ae was devastated as a mother. Losing her son because of her lie, in addition to sadness, self-blame, and some kind of confusion that she herself can't figure out. These feelings kept her from crying and speechless. In order to relieve the pain, she went to the neighbor who had preached to her and joined Christianity. Here she can vent her grief without scruples and accept the baptism of teachings. Her pain seemed to be settled, and Shin Ae smiled again, full of peace and devotion. Even she decided to forgive the murderer of her son. The burst of positive energy is always accompanied by a strange and disturbing violation of human nature. At this time, Shin Ae is like a string that is too tight and will break at any time. When Shen Ailu met the murderer's daughter and was entangled by hooligans, she didn't show sympathy and turned away, so she didn't really understand the teachings at all, let alone forgive the murderer. Zong Can said: It’s good to forgive in your heart, why do you have to tell the forgiveness face-to-face? Yes, it feels like some kind of trial, and the result is that the judge acquitted the person being tried. Before the trial is announced, the person under trial is required to kneel. It's also very much like some kind of gift from God, you are guilty, but God is merciful, so forgive you. Shin Ae once again found her new personality in religion, and once again reached the high point - the moral god of the murderer. This feeling helped her gain inner comfort and temporarily ease the pain of losing her child. But the results were brutal, and before Shin Ae could be acquitted, the murderer had converted to Christianity and received God's forgiveness in his heart. The benevolent trial scene that Shin Ae imagined became an ordinary church meeting. The human setting collapsed in an instant, and the protection of religion for her ended. The taut string finally snapped. How could God have forgiven him like that before I forgive him, she asked? I was so sad, but that person said that he had been forgiven and redeemed by God. Li Cangdong is questioning religion here, which is not a sarcasm but a real question mark.
After failing to play God, Shin Ae begins to take revenge on God like crazy. Steal CDs, disrupt church activities, seduce priests. But she knew in her heart that she had failed. Because the priest could not face God and resisted seduction, because the faithful held an all-night prayer meeting for Shin Ae at home, kindness and piety were real. God is real in the hearts of others. This time she couldn't look down on anyone anymore, instead the church members occupied the high ground with their piety. This failure pushes Shin Ae to a real mental breakdown, the pain of losing a child, the pain of the collapse of a human being, the pain of the disappearance of spiritual sustenance, the pain of being the enemy of God. Shin Ae cut her wrists involuntarily, and regained consciousness from the pain and blood. The most real she was stripped of all the settings, shivering on the street and calling for help.
When she was released from the mental hospital, she met the murderer's daughter again. She fled angrily, glaring at the sky. Her heart is still full of resentment, but resentment is not wrong, it is even more reasonable. A mother who has lost a child will never get better. Perhaps the best possibility is to continue to live on her feet with resentment and pain.
Although Li Changdong questioned religion in his way, he did not deny the kindness and piety of the believers. However, among all the people, Zong Can is the highlight of the whole play, a person who has no religious belief and no personality. The duty is real, there is no inner drama, and the real life is on the ground. He likes Shen Ai, but he has no wretched heart. He helps Shen Ai without asking for anything in return, and accompanies him silently. If religion is the sunshine for believers, then Zong Can is the sunshine for Shen Ae alone. Shen Ai didn't like Zong Can. Her aloofness did not allow her to accept such a tacky man, but she did not refuse Zong Can to treat her well. In the end, Zong Can still smiled and held a mirror for her to cut her hair, with a simple and clean smile. Is such a rough and tacky man an angel? It simply subverted the public's impression of angels. What was your impression of the angel? Is there a human interlayer between angels and humans? It can only be said that human interlayers are really everywhere.
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