Shadow of Land

Garrick 2022-01-13 08:02:26

The movie itself is more about love. Two completely different people met and fell in love. The short period of time was intertwined with sweetness and bitterness, which also changed the male protagonist's view of life. From this perspective, the movie is a success. But as a reader of CSLewis, I deeply feel that the excavation of Lewis' own thoughts in the movie is far from enough. After Joy fell ill, his friend came to express his comfort. He mentioned that he often prayed, "prayer does not change God, it changed me." Only here can I see the shadow of Lewis in the book. Joy's death did constitute a great blow to what he originally believed, but in reality, Lewis did not lose his faith because of this, but instead brought his confidence into a different dimension. The following paragraph is quoted from http://lib.verycd.com/2006/12/20/0000132592.html , I personally think it is a deeper understanding of the story behind this movie.
CS Lewis is a well-known writer in English literature. He is a professor at Oxford University. He is good at writing and can speak good manners. Every speech attracts thousands of people to listen to, and respectful notes. His best speech topics are: "The Meaning of Suffering", "Is Miracles Possible?" "What Is Love?", and then affirm the omnipotence and love of God.

In fact, CS Lewis's belief process is very roundabout. He moved from traditional Christianity to strict doctrinal requirements, to spiritual mysticism, to materialistic atheism, to specialize in Buddhism, and finally to Christianity, and then to become a defender of Christianity.

CS Lewis has followed a master of logic, so he attaches great importance to rational thinking, and his defensive way is also best at using rational thinking. This can be seen from his four books, "As Christianity," "The Mystery of Pain," "Miracle," and "Man's Disappearance". These books deal with the problems of the ages: Why does God exist? Why is this God necessarily the God of the Christian faith? What is the ethics of Christianity? What are the attributes of God including the Trinity? If God is all-powerful and all-good, why is there evil? Why is there pain? Why does the created man fall? Will there be miracles in the scientific generation? What is the crisis of the scientific generation? He is quick to respond, can quickly point out the illogical aspects of other people's statements, and is quite logical in his own statements. In the book "As Christianity", we will find that he is the purpose of inheriting "Thomas Aquinas" moral argument, but using modern examples. And CS Lewis quite emphasizes that Christian faith is in line with rationality. On the contrary, atheism or pantheism and polytheism cannot withstand the test of rational thinking.

Although CS Lewis’ logical speculation is so rigorous, he and the professors at the school love to argue with him, saying that he is facing a complicated problem with a simple answer (logic). CSLewis dares to face challenges and often wins in eloquence. However, the most famous work of CS Lewis that has made a sensation abroad is his fairy tale "A Fairy Tales from There". In this set of stories, the "Lion King and Witch Wardrobe" is the most famous. This whole set of fairy tales is actually a description of his eloquent and unshakable faith in a fairy tale metaphor.

So at the beginning of the "Shadow Land" movie, we saw several professors from Oxford University stand with him, talking about the "Lion King and Witch Wardrobe" in his sub-fairy tale collection that is illogical: How can a single bachelor old professor's house? Have a woman's fur coat? Anthony Hopkins, who plays CSLewis, doesn't answer this question directly, but instead talks about the world in the closet completely: "That is a world full of Magic..."

Until the age of sixty, CS Lewis' rational thinking suddenly faced a cruel test. He fell in love with a poetess from the United States named Joyce (played by Deborah Winkie), and experienced her death. This poetess used her life to interpret what CS Lewis is best at. She was abandoned by her husband, with a child, Jewish, and bankrupt. She was living in misery, but she never gave up on love, facing her miserable life bravely and optimistically.

The film describes the dialogue between CS Lewis and Joyce when they meet. Joyce said: "Experience is important." CSLewis said: "Knowledge is important." Joyce said: "Books make people safe." The implication is that the knowledge about love and suffering that you learn from books, or It is untrue to argue against the heroes, because the person involved has no experience at all.

CS Lewis actually fell in love with her, but didn't know that he was in love with her. He did everything possible to help her, and even faked her marriage so that she could stay in the UK. However, he didn't realize how much he loved her until the moment he heard that she had the terminal stage of bone cancer. So he decided to marry her again, an unrepentant marriage contract officially made by God in front of people.

Joyce has experienced suffering thoroughly in her life. She mockingly said that the suffering she experienced was not compromised at all. However, her bravery and optimism, and her familiarity with suffering, made her more prepared than CSLewis in the face of suffering and death. The movie described a time when the two of them were traveling happily. At that time, Joyce was well under control. Joyce talked to CSLewis about death in a pleasant atmosphere. CSLewis didn’t want to talk about it. Contains future pain, this is the deal of life.” Later Joyce relapsed and was irreparable. Faced with the painful CS Lewis, Joyce also persuaded him: "You must let go and let me go," Joyce's last words before death It is: "I am at peace with God ".

On the other hand, CS Lewis began to experience his most familiar "true love", "suffering and death", "Does God exist?" "Is God Almighty and Good?" "Why God?" Ignore the suffering?" "Why is there no miracle?". As Joyce said, books, knowledge, and reason are "safe", but experience is extremely painful. All of CS Lewis’ speeches, the true meaning of the word-processed faith, when he discovered that he had to "live out", but in the process, his faith collapsed. This is the content of his later work "AGrief Observed".

"Qing Qing RuMe" article is plain and plain, like a small prose, completely lost his always sharp wisdom, even hidden doubts, sadness, anger and injustice in the article, no longer give him the same affirmation in the past. s answer. However, this book can be said to be his greatest work. If you haven't finished reading this book, you will not be able to fully understand the meaning of all the wonderful articles of CSLewis. Because of this book "Qing Qing Ruhui", let us have a new perspective on CSLewis. After CS Lewis tried his best to reason about reason, he realized that one day he was completely silent about reason. Faith is only left in the simple and completely unspeakable state of "revelation and faith." He said: Now the arguments are useless, and the days slowly pass, and God still comforts him.

Why did God allow CS Lewis to experience a "question" that he had argued for a long time before he knew the answer after he was 60 years old?

CS Lewis has a description of Xintianxindi in his famous fairy tale work "The Last Battle": "This world is the Shadow of Land of Xintianxindi in the future."

This happened to explain his life. Reasonable knowledge is the Shadow of Land of real experience. The truth is that it can be burned and not destroyed and can still survive. It is impossible to speculatively prove the "confidence" that is said. CS Lewis's life is a mystery in the hands of God. God first asked him to write what he was going to experience, and then let him learn the mysteries of faith from the experience. He is a layer of Shadow of Land in his life, and his encounter with Joyce in Xintianxindi after his death makes the present world, including "Qing Qing Ru Met", all the Shadow of Land.

The movie "Shadow Land" describing this experience of CSLewis, the original text is "The Shadow of Land", which is derived from the allusion of Shadow of Land in "The Last Battle". CSLewis's literary inspiration for this passage comes from the Bible: "We seem to be now Looking in the mirror, it’s blurry, and then I’m going to face each other. What I know now is limited, and I will know everything by then, just as the Lord knew me.” (1 Corinthians 13:12)

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  • Lolita 2022-01-13 08:02:26

    Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things (Hebrews 8:5 KJV) At that time, because I was in a rational time, I wrongly blamed him for his eloquence. Reason and empty talk saved us from pain, and only pain The suffering people are finally as beautiful as gods. Give Lewis a star.

  • Leone 2022-04-22 07:01:46

    The pain now is the part of happiness then. Short and deep, peaceful British style.

Shadowlands quotes

  • Joy: Back where I come from, there's this quaint old custom. When a guy makes up his mind to marry a girl, he asks her. It's called proposing. Did I miss it?

  • Harry: Christopher can scoff, Jack, but I know how hard you've been praying; and now God is answering your prayers.

    C. S. Lewis: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.