Having participated in the Crusades, the knights must have had motives and dreams similar to those of seeking personal and national honor. But when he returned to his hometown, he found that the former paradise had been enveloped by the smell of decay and death, so he fell into deep confusion and pain.
A girl is about to be put to death because it is believed that she is an emissary of Satan who will spread the plague. Death in black robes prompted him to think about life and death. The thief, the blacksmith and the slut who betrayed him, the actor who seduces the blacksmith's wife, who represent different sins in the Bible, all end up being punished by death. The film is full of black metaphors.
We can't always analyze the whole film with one principle. If the master's intentions let us guess through it, how can they still fool the judges? So we can't judge from the above details that this movie is affirming the meaning of religion. Because Bullock questioned the existence of God in the face of the priest pretending to be Death:
"We must build an idol against fear, and that idol we call God."
This sentence is probably also Ingmarberg One of Mann's key points in The Seventh Seal.
But the happy life of Joseph's family made him feel that life is actually a kind of thing that goes with the flow, we don't need to go into it, we just need to experience it bit by bit. So he said:
"I will remember this moment, this peaceful evening, with wild strawberries and milk, your face in the twilight, Mikal sleeping, Joseph playing the lute; I will remember everything we said In other words, I will treasure this memory carefully, like holding a bowl full of milk, it will be a shining moment in my life."
See how similar the views of the master are to mine! ! Heroes see the same thing! !
Knights are involved in wars and killings, thieves not only steal property but bully the weak, actors commit adultery, witches are enemies of God, so they all deserve to be punished. Plague, death... Joseph represents the obedient people who adhere to the teachings, he is peaceful, optimistic, patient, and his destiny is distinguished from others. He enjoys serenity and happiness, and outlives knights and others.
These inner things give the film more long-term vitality.
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