ironic

Krystina 2022-01-19 08:01:31

From a political point of view, since it was filmed by colonial France, we saw that this film blurred the political background of the colony’s resistance to French colonization, focusing on the extreme religious beliefs of Muslims and the cross-religious and fast-racial love of French missionaries.
From a religious perspective, French missionaries ignore their French identity, and naively hope to obscure their political stance, share hardships with the colonized people, and use religion to influence everyone.

In the film, the doctor reads a passage: Human beings only do evil things so thoroughly and happily when they are in the name of religion.
Change the "evil" in this sentence to "crazy"; it's okay to change "religion" to "belief". O(∩_∩)O
is a good shot, but I don’t like the concept of right and wrong and values ​​that I want to convey behind the film.

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Extended Reading
  • Taurean 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    The image created is too holy, so I don’t even know whether it is a real event or a figurative doctrine.

  • Cassandra 2022-04-21 09:03:06

    Rising to religious and racial conflicts, there is usually no reason or reason. But these missionaries who decided to stay were not paranoid or gods, they were at peace of mind. At the end, everyone shed tears quietly in the music of Swan Lake when they ate together, which was very shocking. Then the joyous atmosphere came to an end, and the situation took a turn for the worse. . .

Of Gods and Men quotes

  • Christian: We are martyrs out of love, out of fidelity. If death overtake us, despite ourselves, because up to the end, up to the end we'll try to avoid it. Our mission here is to be brothers to all. Remember that love is eternal hope. Love endures everything.

  • Christian: Once they were gone, all we had left to do was live. And the first thing we did was - two hours later - we celebrated the Christmas vigil and mass. It's what we had to do. It's what we did. And we sang the mass. We welcomed that child who was born for us absolutely helpless and already so threatened. Afterwards, we found salvation in undertaking our daily tasks: The kitchen, the garden, the prayers, the bells. Day after day, we had to resist the violence. And day after day, I think each of us discovered that to which Jesus Christ beckons us: It's to be born. Our identities as men go from one birth to another. And from birth to birth, we'll each end up bringing to the world the child of God that we are. The incarnation, for us, is to allow the filial reality of Jesus to embody itself in our humanity. The mystery of incarnation remains what we are going to live. In this way, what we've already lived here takes root as well as what we're going to live in the future.