1 We pieced together the complete image of Joan of Arc from the film: she was full of love for God, she experienced an unforgettable change, and with unparalleled passion, she awakened the French people's fighting spirit against the British army. So, she is still Joan of Arc. When she was about to die, her body was twisted by the torment of the fire, but her soul was strong, and she saw the light of God in her eyes. Luc Besson said: "I like the ending of the movie. Joan of Arc realized the erratic fate after going through hardships, but she accepts the arrangement of fate, and we can learn a lot from it. For five hundred years, the image of Joan of Arc has been Most of the ingredients are used, so I hope to use this film to make her return to an independent identity." From the divinity-demon-human nature trilogy, Luc Besson completed the image restoration project of Joan of Arc. 2 There are some details in history, such as Joan of Arc escaped several times after being imprisoned, for example, before she died, she was confirmed as a virgin again, and for example, the famous dialogue in the court trial——
Ask: Do you feel that you have received the grace of God?
Answer: If not, I hope God can give it to me; if I have it, I hope God can still give it to me.
This question is an academic trap. The dogma of the church at the time was that no one could be sure that he himself received the grace of God, and if she answered in the affirmative, then she had proved herself a heretic. And if her answer is no, then she admits her guilt. These were all omitted by Luc Besson. He doesn't think that matters. It doesn't matter if she's a hero or even a woman. In Luc Besson's eyes, Joan of Arc has no gender, she is just a believer of God, he does not show the weakness of her child, nor the weakness of her woman, even when she is alone does not perform. Her doubts come only from her relationship with God.
3 According to Freud's theory, it can be said that the man in black is Joan of Arc's superego. And Joan of Arc's self is the middle-aged man in white that always appears in the film - the one who looks like God, this "God" is just the psychological defense mechanism of Joan of Arc's self, not the real "God", the reason is from the film It can be seen in this group of shots of Joan of Arc's self-confession: Joan of Arc's id violated the original sin, and her id uses the pleasure of killing to satisfy the psychology of revenge and idol worship; but because of the special character of Joan of Arc , she believed in God since she was a child, so her id (instinct) and ego (belief) were in conflict. At this time, the defense mechanism of ego was reflected in "the role of 'God' played by 'ego'". Because the id is sinful (until the last set of shots at the stake), the God (the ego) that Joan of Arc believes in is not really God in the sense of "God". It should be noted that this God is only the God that Joan of Arc thinks, not the real God. The two characters, the real God and Satan, do not appear in this film at all. Luc Besson wants to show the psychological world of Joan of Arc, so everything It's all Joan of Arc's psychological activities, and the final redemption is her own redemption.
When Joan of Arc's ego (the God that Joan of Arc believes she sees) is no longer able to relieve her repression—inner repression and physical torment and instinctual fear of death, her superego—also It was her conscience (Dustin Hoffman this time) - it came out again. Her conscience finds the way to deliverance for her id (both sensual and intellect)—that is, Joan of Arc's own confession in the end. But the key point is that because when Joan of Arc confesses to the superego, it is equivalent to admitting the original sin of the id, so Joan of Arc regards the superego as the opposite of the id and the "self that the id believed in before". ——This is of course, so at this time the superego has temporarily become the opposite of the id——at the same time, it is also the opposite of the young man in white (the "God" that Joan of Arc believes in and the audience mistakenly thinks)——naturally, it can only be a The vicious old man in black... Didn't Jeanne question the man in black and say "Are you Satan"? This is the climax of Joan of Arc's inner activity.
De's psychological activities, the final redemption is her own redemption. When Joan of Arc's ego (the God that Joan of Arc believes she sees) is no longer able to relieve her repression—inner repression and physical torment and instinctual fear of death, her superego—also It was her conscience (Dustin Hoffman this time) - it came out again. Her conscience finds the way to deliverance for her id (both sensual and intellect)—that is, Joan of Arc's own confession in the end. But the key point is that because when Joan of Arc confesses to the superego, it is equivalent to admitting the original sin of the id, so Joan of Arc regards the superego as the opposite of the id and the "self that the id believed in before". ——This is of course, so at this time the superego has temporarily become the opposite of the id——at the same time, it is also the opposite of the young man in white (the "God" that Joan of Arc believes in and the audience mistakenly thinks)——naturally, it can only be a A vicious old man in black... Didn't Jeanne question the man in black and say "Are you Satan"?
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