[Genesis 1:2] The earth was void and formless, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
[Gen 1:3] God said, "Let there be light." And there was light.
[Gen 1:4] God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
The sun shines on the messy corner with the damp ground, the overturned plastic bottle, the rusty water pipe, and the shadow of the steps, the shadow of the foxtail swaying in the wind, this is the last long shot of "Secret Sun" , the name of the buckled movie, seems to have a lot of meaning.
Living in the sun, we have never thought about the blessings of the sun and what is in every ray of sunshine, but "Secret Sun" said through the mouth of the unpleasant-looking female drugstore owner: "That one. In the ray of sunshine, the will of our Lord is deeply hidden, and there is nothing in the world that does not hide the will of the Lord.” The secret sun, the secret sunshine, maybe there is such a meaning in it - we live in the sunshine, but do we really know the sunshine?
Shin Ae is a woman who loves sunshine. She even used her husband's hometown as an excuse to move from Seoul to Miyang to settle down, because there is a loud sunshine and nostalgia for her deceased husband, but the most real reason under this elegant reason is actually because No one here knows her and she can start over.
In this movie, if you don't understand Shen Ae deeply, you will have a lot less experience, but if you don't understand God, you will miss the most beautiful blessing.
So, let's analyze Shen Ai first. In her, we can more or less find our own shadow.
Shen Ae's life is broken, and her childhood is full of shadows. The movie has a passage of her talking to herself when she is mentally stimulated, which shows her unfortunate childhood - when she cried at the age of 12, she was locked in the bathroom and punished. Smoking in her own house, beating her head with a spoon, and wanting to go to the music school, someone wouldn't let her go... Then she scolded, "A guy who is not as good as a pig and a dog, a pervert!"
This can be associated with her unhappy marriage. She once said that if she hadn't gotten married early, she would have continued to play the piano. Most women who marry early have a lack of security in their childhood families, so they will have the idea of finding security in love as adults. But her relationship with her husband is not good. Her husband has a mistress. Although she tried her best to defend her deceased husband, she still misses her ex-husband who died in a car accident. She put a cover on herself. In this cover, she imagined herself as a woman who has lost her husband but never lost her love. She can even give up Seoul to come to Miyang in order to miss that love. There are fewer and fewer people. In this small city, she wove herself a fairy tale coat and lived in an artistic fantasy until her absurd lies led to a catastrophe.
Everyone has packaging, packaging makes us feel safe, packaging is to convince ourselves that we have achieved the imagined self, packaging is because we are not satisfied with ourselves. Shen Ai's real life should be that she was abused and even sexually assaulted at a young age, so that she married early. After marriage, her husband betrayed her again, and when she died, she would have to repay the debt he owed. No one will like this kind of life, because every shot in life points to failure, especially a noble woman like Shen Ai who has artistic temperament and self-cultivation and despises vulgarity. This is even more difficult to accept.
So, she packaged herself like this - with a love that will last forever, the detachment of escaping from a big city, the elegance of teaching children how to play the piano, and the wealth of money to buy land and build a house - this is Shen Ai's ideal self.
This woman with no support, standing in the blank space, because the foundation of her life is based on her conception, so she can easily grasp something in her life as a straw, to carry their unbearable weight.
This straw is her son Xiaojun.
Xiaojun dyed a lock of yellow hair, which is really cool for a preschool-aged child, which shows that he is unlikely to be a well-behaved child, and also shows that his mother is doting on him.
But no matter how naughty, it is a treasure in the eyes of her mother. Shen Ae jumped up and cheered Xiaojun's speech like no one else. When we were kidnapped and killed, we and Shin Ae fell into that unspoken grief.
The actress Jeon Do Yeon is really outstanding, her performance is remarkable in every detail, and she is completely worthy of the title of Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival. For such a bitter scene, if it were a Chinese director, it would have made you cry long ago. However, the Korean director Lee Chang-dong refused the slightest sensation, and in the scene that can make you cry the most—Shen Ai went to the murder scene to claim her son The scene of the corpse - it was actually a long shot, no facial close-up, no corpse, no hissing and grief, just looking at a mother so indifferently, staggering down the dirt slope, hesitatingly stepped forward, The small figure is like a documentary video that was accidentally shot.
Li Cangdong's film language is full of detailed metaphors, one of which is the dark wound that Shin Ae can't cry out - the kind of pain that weighs heavily on the heart and can't breathe, which has appeared many times in the film. The first time she appeared when she was registering the death of her son, the suffocating pain led her into a healing-themed preaching field, and she finally released the grief she had suppressed for too long in front of God, the cry was blood dripping The sadness of the powerlessness of those caught in the great curse of fate, which can only be lifted in the presence of God.
Shin Ae has become a Christian, and seeing her smile as warm as the sun, and seeing her being cared for in the church community, we will think that it is finally clear. Some people say it's a religious film, and some people say it's an anti-religious film. In fact, it's not a religious film, nor is it an anti-religious film. It's just a very, very real film that happens to touch on one of the most sensitive topics— -Why are people not happy? Why do people fall into the curse of fate? And can the Gospel solve this problem?
The gospel tells mankind that people are unhappy because they leave God and their souls are in a state of death; people fall into the curse of fate because those who leave God are controlled by Satan; only the gospel can solve the problem of separation from God, Solve the problem of the curse, solve the problem of Satan.
So, the Gospel is not religion, no matter how much it looks like religion, because there is no answer to life in religion.
Shin Ae thought she had found rest in God's love. She might have really tasted the unseen comfort from God. The smile on her face was not fake. Her heart felt like love. She thought of God pampering her. She felt so happy. But she probably didn't think that her love for God was different from her love for her husband? She only longs for the feeling of being loved, the feeling of being comforted, the feeling of being protected. This kind of love is based on a one-way need, but it is actually a demand without return.
She just felt that God loved her, but she never said that she loved God. She only asks God to love her, so she hates God when she thinks God doesn't love her.
So, when she is unsuspecting, sorrow will come, and she is choked by a sudden tear in the middle of the meal-her scars accumulated over the years have not healed-it can't be healed so quickly, God never promises to say , come to me, and I will give you eternal rest at once.
Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." These words are filled with the light of God and give hope to the heart. However, the road of truth is by no means the road of comfort and enjoyment, just like the song in the movie when the believers sang: "The door leading to salvation is really narrow, the road leading to life is really difficult, Take off the dirty sins that are buried deep in our body, let us step in." Take
off the sins, renew the old constitution, and a life of faith is a life of healing. So faith is more than a statement: I believe in God and I believe in Jesus. It is a lifelong process of nurturing our spiritual life with God’s words. During this process, we discover Christ, experience Christ, enjoy Christ, and bear witness to Christ. For this reason, we must always be in the Lord and worship Him with honesty and spirit.
The scars of Shen Ae's bereavement are still there, even dripping blood from time to time, but she falls into habitual self-deception again, she thinks that she can forgive the enemy who killed her son, or she is eager to get rid of the occasional attack through such behavior. Sadness, or she wants to use such behavior to prove that she is grateful to God, no matter what the motive, the fact is that she once again imagined a self that she wanted to achieve - a self with the ability to forgive and even love the enemy , like the Lord Jesus.
This assumption was ruthlessly overturned again—everything in the world has the will of the Lord, and God, who has absolute sovereignty, sometimes does not intervene in Satan’s attacks on man, because man’s self-deception has left a gap for Satan— It's just that when we realize it's too late, Satan is all-pervasive and brings curses and bad luck to us.
Shen Ai went with the beautiful imagination of forgiving her enemies like God, but what she didn't expect was that the murdering enemy in the detention center was not as good as a prisoner who was responsible for the crime, not only that, but he also did not forgive him in Shen Ai. I have already obtained God's forgiveness before, and my mind is at peace. I pray every morning, I open my eyes and close my eyes and pray, and I also pray for Jun Er's mother... Wait, it shouldn't be such a script, it should be played by Shen Ai to forgive, And the prisoner pretended to be remorseful and begged for forgiveness. It should be the inner torture that destroyed his health. He finally asked God's forgiveness in his dying breath. Or, even though Shen Ae forgave him, God couldn't forgive him. .
So, everyone is happy, in line with the public's aesthetic tastes and values, and in line with Shen Ai's sudden self-confidence as a god, she must have a Virgin-like smile and lovingly send the bunch of wildflowers, as the spokesperson of the sun, to give A ray of sunshine for the man who should have fallen into the eternal night.
The pastor said: Forgiveness is not easy, God said, the hardest thing for us to hold on to is to forgive his enemy and love him.
Zong Zan said: Miss Shen Ai is not a holy son.
It turned out that the bystanders were all sober, and only Shin Ae fell into a habitual coma.
Shen Ae was really in a coma and fell outside the detention center - the scene of this fall is very meaningful. She did not fall in front of people, but in front of God. Her fall did not come from the stimulation given to her by the prisoner, but from the fact that she no longer fell. Believe in God.
Is there a god in Shin Ae's world? have. There are times when she believes, and when she doesn't, God is still there. Otherwise, she would not have looked up at the sky many times, challenging God to see what she did. It's not that she doesn't believe in God, she doesn't understand God, she doesn't understand God's good intentions, and she can't see God's true love. The reason why she is like this is because she can't help but focus on herself and be considerate of her own needs. She is full of heart It is herself, God is just a tool for her to satisfy her demands and obtain comfort. Once this goal is not achieved, she hates God and judges God with her own standards, thinking that God is unfair.
The pastor said that living according to the Lord's will is really hard!
Many people believe in the Lord, but they are unwilling to live according to the Lord's will. But God's rule is that if you don't let me be the master of your life, there will be no fundamental change in your life. People rely on their own efforts and imagination, and they cannot achieve their ideal self at all—unless the Holy Spirit arises to work in your body, and the premise of the Holy Spirit’s work is to give yourself completely to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Many people have received Jesus Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, but they use their old habits and physical needs to block the work of the Holy Spirit. These are the gaps of Satan. The work of the Holy Spirit cannot arise, but Satan can take advantage of the emptiness to enter. , how will that end? it goes without saying.
Therefore, Shen Ai's heart to resist the Holy Spirit was born, and all kinds of strange behaviors followed, behind which satan's work was hidden - going to church to make trouble on the table, stealing CDs, secretly playing popular songs at evangelistic meetings, The lyrics are "Everything is fake, love is fake"... At this time, she once again had the symptoms of her hand pressing on her heart and unable to breathe - this hard-working Shin Ae!
Shen Ae began to seduce the priest. If understood in terms of religion, the pastor's inability to resist Shin Ae's temptation would be a reason to attack Shinto, because religion originally emphasizes the law of behavior. But the true gospel is not law, but perfect grace. The Gospel knows that no one can achieve perfection in his entire life. The Gospel understands the total inability of people under the bondage of sin. Therefore, the Gospel forgives people and forgives every weakness of people. Therefore, a pastor is a human being, and like everyone else, he will There is weakness.
The priest regains his reverence for God at the critical moment when he hits the door, and Shin Ae vomits when he closes the gun—another image full of metaphors. Jesus said, "What goes in cannot defile a man, but what goes out can defile a man." Mark 7:20-23 He also said, "What comes out of a man can defile a man, for from within, that is, out of a man's heart, goes out. Evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, envy, slander, pride, arrogance. All these evils come from within, and can defile a person."
Beginning with confrontation with God, Shin Ae begins to crumble and disintegrate like a fragile clay figurine. She was so frightened by a loach that she sang to Zong Zan nervously. In the middle of the night, she hallucinated that the murderer had run out of the detention center to call her until she cut her wrists—even cutting her wrists filled her with anger. I mean, as if the rebellious daughter was threatened with death. So she cut her wrists and ran out to ask for help. The targets of her cry were the passers-by who were wary of her and alienated her, and the brothers and sisters in the Lord who took her fall to heart, but she was praying for her. It's time to drive them out and smash the windows of their house while they hold an all-night prayer meeting for her.
If faith in God did not save her, what if she lost faith in God? It's not God's fault, it's the sadness of people's unbelief. Her fall contains God's love, but she only needs her self-righteous love and doesn't understand God's love.
If a person cannot be soberly aware of himself and stand honestly before God, God will allow Satan's intervention, which will be counted as the father's discipline on the child until the day when she is completely sober.
After being discharged from the hospital, Shin Ae used a haircut to cut off the pain of the past, but she met the enemy's daughter at the barbershop. God's arrangement is really interesting. When Shin Ae tried to deceive herself and tell herself to start over again, God put such a trial in front of her, and God did not allow her to have the slightest pretense and escape. , put her directly face to face with the problem. So she saw her weakness once again, just like she was frightened when facing the murderer, but she bowed her head and avoided it. Shen Ai, with her hair cut in half, ran out of the barber shop and asked the sky again: WHY? Why today? ——Shin Ae really believes in God, she is just a child of God who is unwilling to obey, just like the daughter of the prisoner in the barbershop, she made mistakes because she didn’t understand her father’s love, so she was sent to the youth correctional center.
Does our heavenly Father have no right to discipline his children?
Shen Ai continued to cut off the other half of her hair in front of the mirror. Zong Zan stood there and acted as her mirror. This real man who silently loved Shen Ai from beginning to end. He walked into the church because of Shen Ai. Love has fallen, but he has found the destination of his life in God, or using such a person as a mirror, Shen Ae will eventually understand God, and will eventually discover the amazing hidden in the secret sunshine full of God’s blessings love it.
【Matthew 5:43】“You have heard it said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 【
Matthew 5:44】But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
Matthew 5:45] Then you may be the sons of your heavenly Father; for he makes the sun shine on the good and on the wicked, and rains on the righteous and the unrighteous.
(There is much more to the movie, Zongzan and Murderers and believers in the church all convey different messages, but I don’t know if I will continue to write, this is a “Shen Ai”)
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