The film does have a documentary feel to it at the beginning, and the black-and-white film makes this modern-day film seem more reminiscent of the past.
During the viewing process, I kept reminding myself that there were directors and camera crews next to the actors. Although the film is very real, very shocking, very deep. But the thought that it's all acting, no matter how real.
This kind of film that can "restore" history is not only sad, but what I think of is that technology is increasingly making human beings omnipotent.
Nietzsche said that God is dead. Humans created God, gave all the glory to God, and revered God (here refers to all the gods worshipped by different civilizations). However, while science makes human beings more and more aware of themselves, it makes human beings farther and farther away from God.
Once upon a time, ignorance of the world and itself made human beings live in a mysterious world. The mysterious nature in which human beings live is not another world separated from human beings, but a world in which human beings feel that they are a part of it. Just like the world in the eyes of the Amazon natives in the film: souls and human beings live in harmony in the same world dominated by gods. However, today, we can no longer return to the world dominated by God, because we humans have almost dominated this world with science.
We are getting farther and farther from God, but we don't seem to be getting any closer to hell.
Religion is still at work, in order to keep people in awe of God. However, modern life keeps God out of the mystery, and even those who worship God are inevitably using technological products instead of God-given brains. Those who do good in the world by serving God on behalf of God also live in splendid temples or churches.
Humans are very real: in our ignorance, we leave our destiny to the gods of our own creation. But we have gradually mastered the world, and we ourselves live like gods.
But God (the universe whose greatness has nothing outside and whose smallness has nothing inside) is God after all. If we humans can live forever, we must be able to control the entire universe. It must be God who brought life out of nothing and then back to nothing.
It is also like the pictures of the computer-generated universe at the end of the film. Humans cannot see through the universe, so although we are getting further and further away from God, science still cannot save human beings!
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