It's a spectacular movie. I can watch it smoothly, but there are not too many new things. There are three clips that are more impressive:
One is the cliff jumping ceremony.
In their beliefs, a person's life is divided into four segments, each of which is 18 years old, and at the age of 72 people reach the end of their life cycle. At this time, people voluntarily give up their lives, and the new baby in the tribe inherits his name to start a new cycle. Jumping off a cliff is a great joy, because compared with the pain, fear, and shame that one has to experience in natural aging, jumping off a cliff can avoid the corrosion of aging on the human soul, and aging is meaningless.
Wow~ It seems to make sense! This kind of logic sounds familiar, I remembered a passage I read in "The Zealot",
The essence of mass movements is to cultivate and consolidate a spirit of solidarity and self-sacrifice. In order for a man to develop a spirit of self-sacrifice, his ego must be torn away... let him assimilate into the collective, he has no value, purpose or destiny of his own. . . . the threat of suffering and death cannot depend on his own courage, and his strength comes from the fact that he belongs to some great, glorious, indestructible collective. ... "Glory" is basically a stage concept. It is only when we see ourselves as actors on the stage that death loses its horror and finality and becomes an act of simulation and a dramatic gesture.
The most important role of religion is to explain the unknown and eliminate fear. While people are alive, the greatest fear is death. In order to make people willing to choose death, they beautify, sublime, or in Eric Hoffer's words, "stage" the act of "jumping off a cliff" (ie, death). This pair of people who jumped from the cliff enjoyed the highest courtesy during the meal. After the meal, there was a series of chanting and chanting, and then the priestess led the crowd to pay tribute to them, and finally the strong laborers in the tribe carried them to the At the top of the cliff, after another ceremony, they jumped off the cliff under the witness of everyone.
Exactly what Eric Hoffer said. Alas, that's how geniuses are. Early in the morning, they have seen through and explained the truth of the world.
Another is the prophet who wrote the "Bible".
He is the biggest poor man in this story. He is a deformed child, and this deformed child was deliberately "created" through intermarriage! Because only such handicapped and deformed children will not be deceived by normal cognition, so he can keenly perceive the will of God, and then he will draw what he perceives, and finally explain the content of his drawing through the elders, adding to in the "Bible".
This really shocked me! The elder who explained the Bible didn't mention the intentional creation at the beginning. I thought it was the warmth of this faith. To accept a deformed child in this way, I never imagined that, hey, my face still hurts . It's very sad. I think of those pets that have been bred by close relatives in order to ensure their pure blood. All of them have inherited diseases. They live in pain and vulnerability in this world. Yibaishun. Humans are truly sinful.
Another is the mating ceremony.
Wow! The design is so beautiful too! In an open and holy barn, a girl budding among flowers, and a row of young women singing side by side behind the girl, all of them returned to the way they were at the beginning of their lives, naked and free from distractions. They are so pious, so innocent, even your painful gasps, everyone feels the same as you.
admire! Back to the de-selfization of people. I noticed that after the whole process, what the girl said wasn't that it hurt or that it was cool, but, "I feel it! I feel the baby!". Unfortunately, for girls, she has no feelings of her own, only the noble task of reproduction.
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