This film has been watched twice, three years between. When I watched it again yesterday, I had a different feeling. The film was 125 minutes, but it carried a lot of historical and cultural elements. The protagonists of the Jesuits, Gabeel and Rodosa, ended in different ways, which caused me to ponder for a long time after the end. , And talk to your friends about the clues and memorabilia in the film.
I want to interpret this film. From the point of view of the main characters of the film, Western literature has a characteristic, that is, it likes to use several clues to run through the whole plot, intertwined with each other to push forward.
The film is recorded based on the cardinal's reply to the pope. In South America, the indigenous peoples in South America are caused by the turmoil in the parish and the problems that have arisen due to the changes in political power. At the end of the film, the cardinal said something like this: Lord, therefore, your priests are dead, but I live alone. In fact, I died and they are all alive. The spirit of the dead will always live in the memory of the living. The verse at the end of the movie has not been translated, but that verse should show the final values of the film: The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.
After watching the movie, the memories left in several places are more obvious:
After the opening of the narration, first was a martyr. Because of the appearance of the martyr, he led out the Jesuit Scarlet Gabriel who lived and died with the natives of South America, and then began his missionary journey.
The mission to the indigenous people is not so smooth. The first thing we face is environmental challenges. I wanted to break through the smooth cliffs under the waterfall and climb free-handed. During the period, my feet slipped and almost fell off the mountainside. Seeing this, I really squeezed a sweat in my heart. It was easy to board, took out the flute that he brought with him, and played the music. It seems that he knew that the aboriginals had already observed him, he did not choose to enter, but quietly played the flute. Sure enough, it didn't take long before the natives surrounded him. However, fortunately, he was not killed, but accepted and survived.
Here, what touched me is that the missionary journey is not an outing in the suburbs. There are many challenges to break through. Some come from the natural environment, there are psychological fears, and there are external threats. A single item is enough to make a 7-foot man shrink back. The thin priests will overcome them one by one. It is not his strength, not his wisdom, but only relying on his belief that the people are The souls like the Spaniards are the ones who need to be saved.
In the process of hunting and killing the natives, the priest ran into the mercenary Rodosa. Not everyone treats indigenous people as human beings. What the slave traders saw were not souls to be saved, but silver dollars. After seeing the priest in front of him, Rodosa went down the mountain. From this, it can be seen that Rodosa has awe of faith. Later, because of a duel with his younger brother, after killing his younger brother, he once blamed himself and felt guilty. Later, Gabriel was persuaded to go to the mountains to teach with him. His heart was really opened, not because of the Bible, not because of other people, but because the Indians forgiven him, did not kill him with a knife, but helped him untie the burden. Seeing this time, I was very moved. It is conceivable that he should be like this at the time. When he had no contact with the Indians before, he felt that they were all slaves and second-class citizens, but when they accepted him and helped him untie him, he knew what he knew before. wrong. In fact, everyone is the same, but the habits are different.
This is also the reason why he was willing to take up the knife again to fight for them, because he was accepted and he was changed by the Indians. I became a family with them.
I felt a lot about this. At the end, the soldiers had already attacked. He used explosives at the bridge to blow up the bridge, and hoped that after the enemy got on the bridge, the enemy would also be blown up. As a result, a child around him was shot at. In order to save the child, he delayed the time and was shot himself, which ended the battle. When he was dying, he was not reconciled. Through the lens, he looked at the place where his eyes looked. It was the priest Gabeal who brought the villagers with the holy artifacts and walked towards the soldiers. He was trying hard to hold on, hoping to see something. I don't know this, but when Priest Gabriel was shot, he lay down. Maybe he was looking for the answer, looking for God, maybe he found it.
Rodosa and Gabriel had a conversation about how to respond. Rodosa was asking to renounce his pledge to God. The villagers felt very helpless because of the upcoming changes, and felt that God had left them. And Gabriel’s response was very powerful. Gabriel said, "You will never be a missionary," and Rodosa considers himself a missionary and wants to lead the villagers out of this predicament. But Gabriel insisted, "The mission of a missionary is to help others become missionaries." And repeatedly emphasized, "God loves you." Leave me a deep memory.
There are a lot of things that make me worth counting. Collect them first. Maybe someday I can sort them out and express them in a new way.
Finally, I would like to mention that this film has also been evaluated by many people about the relationship between church and state. After watching it, I deeply felt the darkness of the Middle Ages and the powerlessness of the church. Regarding the relationship between church and state, I don't want to make more comments. Perhaps, there is a new answer.
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