Li Changdong once said in an interview that when he filmed "Miryang", he always thought about how to express those invisible but real things. Then, his approach is to show the things that can be seen in a real and simple way, and let the audience feel and judge for themselves. On the subject of religion and belief, he said, "I don't want to pretend that what I don't see and don't believe is what I know and believe. I want the audience to follow the heroine Shin Ae and the others in Miryang. The characters' own lives, to feel what's going on with them." Obviously, Li Cangdong's expression method is successful. Through Shen Ai's encounter, the character has experienced "believing in religion to not believing in belief", so that ordinary audiences can also experience the process of "belief shattering" from the senses. s reason.
I read Xiaobei's post-viewing article today, and I remembered some of my thoughts on religious redemption when I watched this film.
Perhaps it is due to the long-term lack of belief in the process of my own growth. On the one hand, I admire those who have faith very much, and feel that it is a spiritual power that I have never possessed and therefore cannot imagine; on the other hand, I am very suspicious of the power of true faith. How big is it? After all, sometimes it seems so casually sloppy and vulnerable.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being has this to say on the subject: "I've always admired religious people. I used to think they all had a peculiar, otherworldly gift for feeling that I lacked. But from my son's example Look, I've found out now that being a Christian is actually pretty simple. When a man is in trouble, some Catholics take care of him and he discovers the faith all at once. Maybe he decided to join the church out of gratitude. "Human decisions are often horribly hasty. In "Miryang", the heroine Shin Ae lost her child. When she was grieved by such a change, a neighbor gave her advice to convert to Catholicism. So she began to try to find an outlet for self-salvation through religion. In the prayers and prayers, everyone thought she had really come out of the pain, but after a few short conversations with the criminal who killed her child, her seemingly firm belief collapsed in an instant.
So what kind of spiritual power is religious belief? This may be a life question that I still need to think about in the future
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Ps. Xiaobei's style of writing is still warm and cold, thank you Xiaobei!
There are some movies that always take a long time to get out of the emotional crux of the movie, but every time I see such a movie, I feel extremely happy.
Watching Li Cangdong's films, you can always feel that he is paying attention to the living conditions of people on the fringes of society with a cold gaze, and he always poetically integrates the times into his private narrative, so cruel and unreserved. That's understandable - he was a novelist and poet before he made the movie.
Sure enough, not everyone has the ability to observe the world and the uniqueness of the perspective.
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