Religious themes are hard to photograph

Stan 2022-03-25 09:01:10

Yesterday, I watched Luc Besson's Joan of Arc. The first half of the story was full of strong aura of the gods, filled with a sense of mystery of divine revelation, and at the same time made people worry about Joan of Arc's personal destiny.

In China's film review, it is often impossible to make ghosts, and it is not a big problem to make demons. I am also for the establishment of materialism, so it must be fake enough. There are a lot of Western fantasy themes every year, few religious themes, and often accompanied by controversy, such as Mel Jebson's Passion.

The reason for watching this movie is to put it bluntly and it is interesting, because I am a fan of fate, and the fate grand order is very popular recently, so I plan to watch the movies of Joan of Arc and Alexander.

The creation of a sense of mystery and sanctity in the Joan of Arc movie at the beginning makes people feel that it is a movie dedicated to faith and to God, but the slightly overdone form of expression vaguely implies a reversal.

Sure enough, after the arrest of Joan of Arc and the appearance of Dustin Dorfman, the direction of the film changed and began to lash out at Joan of Arc and everyone else. This is a way to restore Joan of Arc from being fascinated by people. Everyone, including Joan of Arc, even no one has true beliefs, and they are all using the name of God. It is indeed difficult to judge whether the director's intention is to overthrow the hypocritical and ungodly beliefs, or to deny the existence of all revelation of God and even the existence of God. But at least, give believers and unbelievers their own space. In any case, Joan of Arc becomes a mortal, even a mentally ill person, even if she is suspected of admitting her mistake in the end, and she is suspected of establishing a true belief, full of uncertain expressions and a large-scale dialogue between Dustin Dorfman and Joan of Arc, Makes this movie the best Joan of Arc movie, if not the best Joan of Arc movie.

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  • Constantin 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    This Joan of Arc by Luc Besson is not as simple as "de-divine". His biggest failure is that he deleted Joan of Arc's kindness and wisdom. Instead of objectively narrating the splendid life of Joan of Arc, this "person", and then allowing the audience to discover the truth, the good and the beautiful from the perspective of the "person". What this version of Joan of Arc found was "nothingness", a negative attitude towards life, and before the negative was a mindless speculator. After the real Joan of Arc's victory in Orleans, there were actually many battles until the siege of Paris. These battles fully demonstrated Joan of Arc's military talent and rationality, including prohibiting soldiers from torture and prisoners, and distributing food to the common people. Prayers, even tears, these beautiful and noble human brilliance Luc Besson has nothing at all, in my opinion, everything is incomplete, or intentionally not to talk about, and I have to come up with a literary and artistic work to interpret from the perspective of God, in fact, it is all black Joan of Arc Yes, such as this

  • Hilton 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    The appearance of Joan of Arc was a huge turn for the situation in the Hundred Years War between Britain and France, so it is not difficult to understand that this film is an affirmation of faith. Political conspiracy determines the final death of Joan of Arc. This is the destruction of faith caused by the victory of the secular over the church, but it is also a rebirth, and the protagonist can finally pursue the true faith...

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc quotes

  • La Hire: [praying] I swear that I will never swear again in my life, if you save her life. But I'm warning you, if you let her die, then you're the biggest...

    Joan of Arc: Laxart! Don't swear.

    La Hire: He heard me.

  • [repeated line]

    Joan of Arc: Sooner is better than later.