What matters is not the object of belief, but the act of belief itself.

Haskell 2022-04-22 07:01:04

The film progresses at a moderate speed, and the suspense setting is also linked (unlike some films that only feel cheated once and for all after watching). There are not too many dialogues in the film, and the foreign background music is always inserted at the right time, so as not to let the audience wander into outer space or remember some wrong details in the film too much~

I watched the first half of the film with a little ridicule. I know it's wrong to laugh at a belief, but I really don't believe that a bible can protect someone from bullets or help a villain manipulate people. Such exaggeration of a Bible as a golden bell and iron shirt is simply speechless. . . Is this a missionary film? If so, that's too fake... It

wasn't until Eli was shot that I realized that this movie wasn't as sci-fi as I thought it would be.

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Eli walks west with Solana empty-handed, where he begins to recite the Bible. And then we find out that Eli is blind...

the only Bible that's left in the world is actually written in Braille.

Eli endured more than 30 cold winters for the inheritance of this belief.

The object of belief is not important, what matters is the act of belief.

So I no longer struggled with how Eli was blind and shot accurately.

I got the verb faith out of it, which is enough for me to acknowledge the value of this film.

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The Book of Eli quotes

  • Eli: They say the war tore a hole in the sky, you've probably heard the stories.

    Solara: Yeah.

    Eli: The war tore a hole in the sky, the sun came down, burnt everything, everyone, I wandered, I didn't really know what I should do or where I was going. I was just moving from place to place, trying to stay alive. And then one day I heard this voice. I don't know how to explain it, it's like it was coming from inside me. But I could hear it clear as day. Clear as I can hear you talking to me now. It told me to carry the book west, it told me that a path would be laid out before me, that I'd be led to a place where the book would be safe. It told me I'd be protected, against anyone or anything that tried to stand in my way. If only I would have faith. That was thirty years ago and I've been walking ever since.

    Solara: And you did all this because a voice told you to?

    Eli: I know what I hear, I know what I heard, I know I'm not crazy, I didn't imagine it

  • Hoyt: [seeing two dead hijackers] It's like he's protected somehow. Like there's nothing that can touch him

    Carnegie: Oh, he's just a fucking man. You put a bullet in him, he'll go down like any other.