Interestingly, this film is not only a challenge to people's beliefs, but also a ruthless torture of dictatorship.
Faith is the choice and holding of people's outlook on life, values and world outlook, and it is the belief and respect of human beings to God. The seemingly extremely pious belief of the town mayor in the film is actually empty and hypocritical. He asked everyone to abstain from food and drink during the abstinence period, achieve spiritual sublimation through physical self-control, and not allow others to have any different beliefs and living habits. Therefore, the mother of the secretary who did not believe in God became the whole town. Isolated, and Via and later the Gypsies naturally became his enemies as they challenged his authority among the town's inhabitants and his absolute control over the town. What's interesting is that in the film we see that the residents of the town are not all full of "devotional hearts" to God like the mayor. Beneath the surface obedience is the inner desire and longing for freedom. The appearance of Via completely liberated their scruples. The extension of the mayor's dictatorship over the residents of the town is manifested in the strict discipline of the mayor's secretary Caroline for his son and the violent restraint of Serge on his wife Josephine. In addition to the contrast between the red capes of Via and her daughter and the gray town tones at the beginning of the film, another interesting contrast is Via's changes to Josephine and the mayor's gentrification of Serge. The former is a subtle change, while the latter is a transformation forced by the majesty of the mayor. In the end, Josephine, who had learned to resist, brought down the "gentleman" husband who had used violent methods again. After repeated failures, the mayor went from arrogant and domineering to stalemate to doubt to madness. In the end, under the temptation of chocolate, his devotion to God finally collapsed. He originally wanted to destroy the chocolate shop. He ate chocolate like a child frantically and slept drowsily until dawn.
I can't help but think of a news I saw two days ago. A middle school student from Shanghai Qibao Middle School made a hand-painted World Expo map, which was very popular. Unexpectedly, he was fined 5,000 yuan for not complying with the so-called laws of the Map Bureau, and Air Force Colonel Dai Xu once The old news that the proposed new national defense strategic deployment was shot by the superiors, after reading it, I smiled. After all, there is still a distance between reality and the movie. Breaking through tradition and creating history depends not only on individuals, but on the innovative consciousness of the whole people. Unfortunately, some of our current leaders are corrupt, and what our education lacks is innovation.
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