Beginning (Genesis)-The first part of the "Bible • Old Testament", "Genesis", it describes the seven days God Jehovah created the world, and created the first human ancestor Adam and Eve, their descendants live and multiply around the world and God's refuge for them. Although God created Adam and Eve with the original intention that they should be the embodiment of truth, kindness, wisdom, and all good qualities, human beings have free will, and crimes such as jealousy, deceit, pride, lust, and killing occur among each other. Adam and Eve were tempted by a snake to steal the forbidden fruit; Cain was jealous and killed Abel because of God’s approval of Abel’s gift; human pride wanted to build the Tower of Babel for himself; Lot’s two daughters wanted to preserve their descendants They had incestuous relationship with their fathers and gave birth to Moab and Ben Ami; Isaac’s second son Jacob deceived Esau’s name as the eldest son and his father’s blessing to him; several of Jacob’s sons Jealous of his father doting on Joseph and selling him to Egypt as a slave, etc. The inheritance of evil has allowed it to take root in future generations, pulling mankind itself into the abyss of evil. In the film, Joanna’s family are immigrants from the Netherlands. Her father is a fanatical priest who preached in a very radical way. The father often humiliated and beat his mother, but the mother did not dare to say a word and let her torture and beat her. The most terrifying thing was that after seeing Joanna’s menarche, the father began to treat her with bad intentions, and the mother’s restraint was his justification. "Wife Can't fulfill the responsibilities, let the daughter complete what can't" and endless beatings. What's more, the father locked her mother's mouth with a mask so that she could not speak. The mother's cowardice caused Joanna's dissatisfaction, and her stimulating words caused her mother to hang herself on the spot of her father's sermon. According to the Christian doctrine, suicide is also guilty, because life does not belong to us. It is controlled by God. Suicide violates God’s power to control life and death. This is unacceptable. To kill is to take away people’s lives. Crime, then taking one’s own life is also guilty. Her mother has always accepted the adversity. In the end, she used suicide to escape instead of seeking God's help or resistance. The mother's death as a relief is irresponsible to her daughter because she knows the fate and ending of her daughter after her death. In the film, Joanna rescued the cowboys and hid them in the barn, which can be seen as her resistance to patriarchy and her attraction and obsession with male sex. In fact, the cowboys also killed her companions for greed, and Joanna Witnessing the whole process of strangling his companion without saving her, her affection for cowboys made her indifferent to this, so everyone is guilty. The death of Joanna’s mother made her father furious. He wanted to marry his daughter. The appearance of the cowboy did not save Joanna but was killed by her father. She said that her love for cowboys aroused her father’s anger. He raped Joe. Anna, the next morning Joanna ran away from home while he was asleep. Joanna's father is the incarnation of the devil and hides under the protection of God. God is watching his evil deeds. The suicide of his wife and the escape of his daughter are the beginning of God's punishment on him.
Exodus-Also quoted from the "Exodus" in the "Bible", Moses led the Jews slaved in Egypt to escape from Egypt to Canaan under God's guidance. God helped them to leave the Red Sea for living and eating , But the Jews still complained repeatedly and annoyed God, so they let them bear the suffering of a generation of displacement. In the film, after Joanna fled her hometown, she was drifting in the wilderness like the Jews at the time. Later, she was met by a few gypsies. They sold her to a brothel. She had nowhere to go, so she had to commit herself to doing it. She didn't mean to be a prostitute, but she had never fought, and she learned how to please her clients in order to survive. She still has a conscience but also understands her own sins. Once her friend did not obey the request of the customer, and the boss had his tongue cut off. Her seemingly peaceful days in the brothel ended with the arrival of his devil father. Her friend was killed by his father in order to help her. She took advantage of his father’s unpreparedness and cut his throat, and then faked that he was killed by his father. If she lost her friend, she then stole her friend's identity to marry a foreigner. Although she escaped her father's claws again, she was punished because she had to endure the pain of cutting her tongue to survive.
Revelation-This chapter is derived from the last chapter "Revelation" of the "Bible • New Testament", which predicts the end of the world and the final judgment. In the film, Joanna married a man with a boy after she escaped from the brothel. After marriage, she saw that the other party loved her very much, and they had another daughter. But the good times didn't last long. Her father survived by chance and found here. To make matters worse, when Joanna delivered a child to a dystocia, she chose to save the adult under the premise that the adult and the child could only live. Her action is against the will of God. She is obviously above God to decide who lives and who will die. Her decision also made her suffer and tortured. Her choice also made the woman's husband bitter and want to kill. Joanna failed and had to go far away, but this also planted the bane. Joanna's husband blindly believes in his usual impression of the pastor-benevolence, and the fear and anxiety of his wife are not taken care of, which ultimately leads to an irreparable tragic ending. Joanna’s father began to play a cat and mouse game with her family, and designed to brutally open her husband’s stomach without letting him die happily. The son couldn’t bear to watch his father suffer, and the shot ended his father’s life. Life, this seems to be a moral dilemma. Does his son have the right to end his father's life even if his father agrees? Joanna's son decided to pull the trigger just like her mother chose to leave the adult's life when she delivered the baby. With the death of her husband and the burning of the house, Joanna and her two children were driven to a dead end. They had to flee overnight. The night under the blazing fire seemed to signal the coming of the final judgment.
Retribution-"On Retribution" in the Bible says: "Don't fight against the wicked. If someone hits you with a face, turn your left cheek and let him hit; someone wants to sue you and take your shirt. , The coat will also be taken by him; if someone forces you to walk one mile, you go with him for two miles; if you ask you, give it to him, and if someone borrows from you, don’t refuse." Although God advocates tolerance, Lamech also mentioned in the "Bible" that Lamech said to his two wives, "If a mature man hurts me, I will kill him; if a young man hurts me, I will harm him." It can be seen that God did not oppose or Criticize this eye-for-eye and tooth-for-tooth revenge theory. In the film Joanna and the children are on the way to escape, her father brutally shot her son and then killed her father-in-law. In the end, when her father wanted to plot against her granddaughter, she set fire to it and shot her to end her father's life. Joanna's father used the name of God to do Satan's things, doing all the evil, and the crime was so bad that he should go to hell after death. The heart demon that had troubled Joanna for more than ten years finally disappeared. The audience also hoped that Joanna could live a stable life from now on, but she still did not let her go. In the past, she gave the midwife's husband what she had stayed in before. The sheriff of the town where the brothel was located, he knew her past, and her good friend once killed the brothel boss. This crime was counted on her. Excluding the law, the sheriff was more to retaliate against Joanna. The child died when his wife delivered the baby. Sins are recurring in the world. No one can escape the final judgment whether it is legal, physical or spiritual. Joanna can’t, her father can’t, the sheriff can’t, and no one else can. At the end of the film, Joanna did not make any excuses for the accusation and allowed them to put her in shackles and take her away. The boat sailed in the water, she calmly fell into the lake in exchange for eternal relief and freedom...
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