I don't know what the stigmata sees. The old movie of 1999 is already 22 years old. But the plot is still far from satisfactory. The first setting is very strange. The stigmata are very similar to the scars of the crucifixion that very devout believers will have. However, the heroine is an ordinary barber shop employee, an ordinary atheist. Just one day after buying a drunk in a bar, I went home and received a gift from a mother who was traveling outside. Among the gifts was the relic of a deceased priest—a string of rosary with a cross was suddenly possessed by the priest’s ghost, and his body was born. After a series of reactions, hallucinations appeared first, auditory hallucinations later, and substantial physical injuries had appeared severely at the end. When I was resting alone in the bath at home, my wrist was punctured and the blood flow continued, almost injuring a large artery. When drinking at the bar, the blood flowed violently on his forehead, corresponding to the thorns pierced his forehead during the crucifixion of Jesus. Also on the tram, when an accident happened, the tram swayed and grabbed the handrails with both hands, just like Jesus' hands were tied to a cross, and there suddenly appeared deep scars on his back caused by being beaten vigorously with a whip. I also got punctured and bleeding from my foot when I was in the flower shop. I don't know what the trigger is. Let's analyze what happened in these scenes first. When taking a bath in the bathtub at home, there are a lot of lighted white candles arranged around it, or it may be aromatherapy, much like a well-decorated church. There is also a scene where the hostess's whole body, including her face, is immersed in the bathtub, just like the baptism of a new believer in the church. Before the injury, a pigeon fluttered its wings, flew around quickly, and dropped a feather, while the hostess picked up the feathers on the water. The dove is generally a symbol of sacred things in religion. The heroine picking up the dove feather may indicate that the holy relic is about to come, and the stigmata appears suddenly. On the tram, she saw a priest and two nuns. She walked over to ask for help. But then he thought about it and uttered a rant, thinking that God couldn't help her, so she tore off the nun's cross. At this time, she really didn't respect God very much, so the holy relic came and punished her. The beating of her behind her back was also to reprimand her for disrespecting the clergy and believing in atheism in her heart. In the flower shop, she and the priest were chatting and laughing, especially about whether the priest hates sex. However, the priest is not as abstinent as she thought. He said that he is also a human and has secular desires, not to mention that he was not born. It's the priest. But not long after, the holy relic came again, that is, the stigmata of her feet being pierced. This may also have something to do with her verbal blasphemy against the priest, the representative of God. The opposite manifestation of abstinence and indulgence more obvious. Especially after she failed to seduce the priest, she angrily accused the priest of hypocrisy, and misogyny is more obvious here. The priest here is not so much abstinence, as it is to restrain his desire to play, and devote himself to work. Although the heroine herself has a certain tendency to indulge, she is probably just an ordinary person. In general, the priest is a bit workaholic, and the heroine is unremarkable. The whole movie at least shows that science and religion are not completely separated. While some people believe in science, some people regard religion as their belief, and some people are atheists even though they don't understand science.
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