"Ordet" focuses on how the belief in unbelief in miracles and lack of love is corrupted in the face of human arrogance, and how belief has become a battle or even persecution. This is reflected in the opposition of beliefs between the farmer Bogen and the farmers represented by Peter. They both claim that their beliefs are true beliefs, but they can hardly conceal the emptiness of their beliefs. For this reason, they can only fill up with arrogance.
Filming a movie about miracles is not a flattering thing, and the audience is easily disgusted. Although the miracles in many movies have something to do with faith, people always feel that there is something wrong with the director's narrative and cannot be finished, so they have to bring out the miracle to save the scene. When the director Dreyer dealt with it, he regarded miracles as an inevitable result of the narrative of the film. He made sufficient preparations beforehand, and at the same time lay a solid foundation in the hearts of the audience with the help of the archetype of the story about miracles in the Bible. In terms of visual language, Dreyer fully demonstrated the contrast between before and after the miracle occurred, thereby strengthening the persuasive power of the miracle.
Generally speaking, the film is a film that tells a modern story but at the same time opens a dialogue with the original Christian faith. With the help of the film, the director Carl Theodor Dreyer sends the audience a call to return to the original Christian faith. Through the miracles in the movie, Dreyer calls for a real and visible faith, a real faith that dares to pray for the resurrection of the dead
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